A small figure runs out from the side of the screen, enters the ship, and then the player must navigate and fire back through the meteor field and dock with the mothership.

The game was the fifth of seven arcade clones programmed for the TRS-80 by Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu, who left the TRS-80 platform in 1982.

Hogue previously wrote and published an unrelated game called Meteor Mission that was withdrawn from the market.

Ian Chadwick reviewed Meteor Mission II in Ares Magazine #13 and commented that "the challenge is limited and the game is really not terribly exciting.

In a 2012 retrospective, Gamasutra wrote that "'inspired by' the early Taito classic Lunar Rescue, this Big Five Software effort remains a compelling gameplay experience".