Critical Mass
Critical Mass (aka Critter) is a shoot'em up (smup) similar to Galaxian. The basic idea is simple: you move your ship back and forth at the bottom of the screen, shooting up, while bad guys fly around and…
Critical Mass is an arcade, released 9 December 2001 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Critical Mass is
Critical Mass was released in 2001. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Your world has been infested by an aggressive army of space critters. Overrun and unprepared, your government was unable to defend its precious resources. As a last effort to recapture some of the 'goodies', you have been placed into a tiny spacecraft and sent after them.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Critical Mass launched on 9 December 2001, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Melee, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 and Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams.
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