Astro Fighter

Astro Fighter (Japanese: アストロファイター, Hepburn: Asutoro Faitā) is a space shoot 'em up game released for arcades in 1979.

[2] Astro Fighter consists of four waves of enemy craft flying from the top of the screen toward the bottom, and a refuelling stage, which are then repeated with increasingly higher difficulty.

The player's task is to eliminate the four successive waves of different types of attacking craft, while avoiding being hit by missiles and bombs, and then refuel by shooting the 'GS' ship before repeating the process.

In North America, it was the fourth top-grossing video game on the Play Meter arcade charts from September to October 1980.

[6] Play Meter later listed it as the fourth highest-grossing arcade video game of the year in the United States (below Asteroids, Galaxian and Space Invaders).

The player's ship (white) shooting at descending attackers