How to play The Year 1999 online
- Bring your base onto the screen: up arrow
- Move left and right: left and right arrow keys
- Fire: Space bar
- Choose a game: F11 (the console’s Select switch)
- Base size (A = large, B = small): F4 and F9 (the difficulty switches)
- Start a new game: F12 (the console’s Reset switch)
Gameplay
You defend a lone firebase at the bottom of the screen against giant birds that swoop and drop bombs. The Condor Attack manual says the Select switch also lets you face spiders or bats instead. Attackers get faster and change their patterns as you progress, sometimes vanishing off one side and reappearing on the other. You start with six bases and earn another at every 1,000 points, up to nine extra. A small base is easier to move out of the way of bombs.
K-Tel Vision sold the same game as Vulture Attack.
Similar games to play next
- Condor Attack – the original Ultravision release
- Vulture Attack – K-Tel Vision’s release of the same game
- Demon Attack – Imagic’s shooter against waves of swooping demons
- Phoenix – Atari’s version of the arcade shooter with giant birds