Arcade / Arcade - Qix · 0

Electric Starfish

Published by A1 · Developed by [n/a]

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Rating: 6.4/10 · Votes: 7 · Downloads: 1,068 · Hits: 5,695

Sold in Germany as Starkstrom Seestern.

Two different files: original tape release and cracked version with slightly different presentation.

Scott Stilphen — 27 Nov 2017
@ Thomas Hayes - can you describe this glitch you mentioned?
Scott Stilphen — 27 Nov 2017
The original programmer of Fill'er Up! himself, Tom Hudson, commented that Electric Starfish is an unauthorized ripoff of his game. Atarimania needs to credit him for it, and provide a link to Fill'er Up.
rave.N — 11 Mar 2016
Fill'er Up! (and the Electric Starfish, small "Qix" knock-offs) are missing the enemy sparklers that burn like fuses along the walls, making for a dimensionless game which precipitated the creation of "Fill'er Up! II", worthy of letting these older versions get erased. "FU-2" added sparklers, but even "FU-2" still lacks the 2-color 2-speed 2-points draw system which the Arcade and Atari Qix do have.
Thomas Hayes — 1 Feb 2016
I remember playing this and discovering the glitch where you can fill the entire screen at once! I even wrote into Analog about this, but never heard back...
Mark — 18 Oct 2007
Hey ! Tom is right! , i spended many hours typing the hex game code from an Analog magazine, cool game anyway.
Tom Hudson — 22 Jul 2007
This is in reality "Fill 'Er Up", a game written by me for ANALOG Computing magazine. This guy just slapped his name on it.
Jonny EOL — 12 Nov 2006
A poor mans 'Qix', but a reasonably enjoyable adaptation.