How to play World End online
- Move your cannon: left and right arrow keys
- Fire: Space bar
- Start a new game: F12 (the console’s Reset switch)
- Choose one or two players (taking turns): F11 (the console’s Select switch)
- Save and load your progress: Ctrl + 0–9 saves to a slot, Alt + 0–9 loads it
Gameplay
The game plays like a Space Invaders variant with a single giant enemy. The alien station fills the top of the screen above a dotted line, and smaller saucers leave it and fly down towards you while firing. Your laser base slides along the ground at the bottom and shoots a long vertical beam. Your remaining bases are shown as markers under the ground. No manual is known to survive for any release, so the scoring and the exact rules are not documented. A German catalogue for the Laser Base version promised galactic robots attacking with death rays, spiders and destroyer probes.
Other names for this game
The Home Vision cartridge carries the catalogue number VCS 83109. In Germany ITT Family Games sold the same game as Laser Base, as part of its range themed on the Perry Rhodan science-fiction series, and the mail-order company Quelle also sold a World End cartridge. Other known titles include The End of the World, Weltuntergang, Invasion aus der Galaxis, War Stars and Space War, and Bit Corporation put it on a four-game cartridge as Laser Blaser. The programmer is unknown.
Similar games to play next
- Base Attack – another shooter from the Home Vision range
- Sky Alien – one more Home Vision cartridge
- Space Invaders – the arcade classic this game is built on
- Demon Attack – Imagic’s shooter with large, flapping enemies