How to play
Drift Blaster is a RetroArcade original rock-field shooter in the spirit of the golden-age vector classics — same physics thrills, entirely our own code, line art, and synthesized audio. Your ship obeys real inertia: rotate with the left and right arrows, burn the thruster with up, and drift. Nothing stops you but your own counter-thrust, and the screen wraps on every edge.
Big amber rocks split into two teal mid-size rocks, and those split again into fast coral fragments — twenty points for a big one, a hundred for the small ones that actually threaten you. A hostile saucer wanders in periodically, and from wave three onward the small variant aims properly at you. When you are cornered, hyperspace (S or Shift) teleports you somewhere random — usually. There is a small chance the jump goes wrong, which is exactly the gamble the old cabinets offered. Extra ship every 10,000 points, and your top five runs are stored locally with three-initial entry.
Tip: never fire into a big rock at close range — the fragments inherit chaos. Back to the RetroArcade Arcade, or dig into vector-era history in the Golden Age of Arcade Games hub.