History VideoGame / SuperStardustHD

''Super Stardust HD'' is a downloadable game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 video game console developed by the Finnish company Creator/{{Housemarque}}. In Japan, it is known as ''Star Strike HD.''

The game objective is similar to the classic ''VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}'' (enemies) and ''VideoGame/{{Robotron 2084}}'' (controls) that requires the player to destroy virtually everything on screen combined with a frenetic pace that is more reminiscent of modern titles such as ''VideoGame/GeometryWars''. The game itself is an enhanced version of the classic Amiga game ''Super Stardust'', itself a sequel to the game ''Stardust.'' ''Super Stardust HD'' was one of the games given free by Sony as part of their 'Welcome Back' package because of the UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork intrusion.

A version for UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable titled ''Super Stardust Portable'' (''Star Strike Portable'' in Japan) was released in November 2008. Also, the game has been overhauled to UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 as ''Super Stardust Ultra'', featuring the previous DLC and new modes.

A successor was released for the UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita, titled ''Super Stardust Delta''. It simplified the weapons to two, fire and ice, and added some minigames that utilize the Vita's various features.

* SpiritualSuccessor: UsefulNotes/{{PS4}} launch title ''Resogun'' does to ''VideoGame/{{Defender}}'' what this game did to VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}. Both games are made by the same company.

''Super Stardust HD'' is a downloadable game for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 video game console developed by the Finnish company Creator/{{Housemarque}}. In Japan it is known as ''Star Strike HD.''

''Super Stardust HD'' provides several modes of play, such as arcade, planet mode, and endless each with their own online leaderboards. The default game mode, Arcade, takes the player through a series of five planets, each consisting of five main phases, the last of which is a boss battle. Planet Mode allows the player to play any one of five planets in the same way, ending the game after the planet is complete. Both of these modes support both single-player and two-player cooperative play. Endless mode is where you face an endless wave of enemies where you try to get the highest score.

** There is very little MercyInvincibility after you lose your shields and after a boost, most likely less than one second. Sometimes your boost ends right into a dense cloud of asteroids, resulting in a quick death if you don't have any bombs to clear the area around you. When you lose your shield, you are invincible only while the shield dissipates; the dissipation effect is a exploding purple aura, which obscures the asteroids and lasts only as long as the effect's duration. This window of [[SarcasmMode Merciless Invincibility]] is far too short to allow players to reassess the playfield, leading to players losing their shield and losing a life in a quick instant.

* NitroBoost: Your ship can boost to quickly escape tight situations and knock asteroids out of the way. It also inflicts damage on anything your ship touches and grants temporary invincibility. The downloadable Impact mode upgrades it; when an object is hit by the boost in that mode, the amount of time the boost lasts is extended. However this comes at the price of being unable to use regular weaponry.
* PinballScoring: With a high multiplier, scores can skyrocket. In Arcade Normal mode, players can play as long as their lives can last them. The top scores all time on the leaderboards top 1.5 to 1.8 ''billion'' points.

* AsteroidThicket: Taken UpToEleven in later planets and phases.

* SceneryPorn / VisualEffectsOfAwesome: See that image up there? It looks that spectacular ''all'' the time.

* SpiritualSuccessor: UsefulNotes/{{PS4}} launch title ''Resogun'' does to ''VideoGame/{{Defender}}'' what this game did to {{Asteroids}}. Both games are made by the same company.

* SpiritualSuccessor: {{PS4}} launch title ''Resogun'' does to ''VideoGame/{{Defender}}'' what this game did to {{Asteroids}}. Both games are made by the same company.

''Super Stardust HD'' is a downloadable game for the PlayStation3 video game console developed by the Finnish company Creator/{{Housemarque}}. In Japan it is known as ''Star Strike HD.''

The game objective is similar to the classic ''VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}'' (enemies) and ''VideoGame/{{Robotron2084}}'' (controls) that requires the player to destroy virtually everything on screen combined with a frenetic pace that is more reminiscent of modern titles such as ''VideoGame/GeometryWars''. The game itself is an enhanced version of the classic Amiga game ''Super Stardust'', itself a sequel to the game ''Stardust.'' Super Stardust HD was one of the games given free by Sony as part of their 'Welcome Back' package because of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation Network intrusion.

A version for UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Portable}} titled ''Super Stardust Portable'' (''Star Strike Portable'' in Japan) was released in November 2008. Also, the game has been overhauled to PS4 as ''Super Stardust Ultra'', featuring the previous DLC and new modes.

A successor was released for the PlaystationVita, titled ''Super Stardust Delta''. It simplified the weapons to two, fire and ice, and added some minigames that utilize the Vita's various features.
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The game objective is similar to the classic ''{{Asteroids}}'' (enemies) and ''{{Robotron2084}}'' (controls) that requires the player to destroy virtually everything on screen combined with a frenetic pace that is more reminiscent of modern titles such as ''GeometryWars''. The game itself is an enhanced version of the classic Amiga game ''Super Stardust'', itself a sequel to the game ''Stardust.'' Super Stardust HD was one of the games given free by Sony as part of their 'Welcome Back' package because of the PlayStation Network intrusion.

A version for {{PlayStation Portable}} titled ''Super Stardust Portable'' (''Star Strike Portable'' in Japan) was released in November 2008. Also, the game has been overhauled to PS4 as ''Super Stardust Ultra'', featuring the previous DLC and new modes.

A version for PlayStation Portable titled ''Super Stardust Portable'' (''Star Strike Portable'' in Japan) was released in November 2008.

* SpiritualSuccessor: {{PS4}} launch title ''Resogun'' does to {{Defender}} what this game did to {{Asteroids}}. Both games are made by the same company.

* SpiritualSuccessor: PS4 launch title ''Resogun'', does to Defender what this game did to Asteroids, and it's made by the same company.

* ColorCodedForYourConvinence: Most enemies in ''Super Stardust Delta'' are colored in accordance to which weapon will be most effective on them; blue enemies are weak to ice, and red enemies to fire.

* FakeDifficulty: It can be said that much of the game's difficulty lies in its completely random nature. It is not '''when''' the waves of threats spawn that are random...it's '''where''' they spawn. There are times when an asteroid or enemy spawns right on top of you. Many a player have died because of this.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The ESRB must have been piss-drunk when they gave this an E rating, because certain enemies '''bleed heavily''' upon dying.

The game objective is similar to the classic ''{{Asteroids}}'' and ''{{Robotron2084}}'' that requires the player to destroy virtually everything on screen combined with a frenetic pace that is more reminiscent of modern titles such as ''GeometryWars''. The game itself is an enhanced version of the classic Amiga game ''Super Stardust'', itself a sequel to the game ''Stardust.'' Super Stardust HD was one of the games given free by Sony as part of their 'Welcome Back' package because of the PlayStation Network intrusion.

''Super Stardust HD'' is a downloadable game for the PlayStation3 video game console developed by the Finnish company Housemarque. In Japan it is known as ''Star Strike HD.''

* NitroBoost: Your ship can boost to quickly escape tight situations and knock asteroids out of the way. It also inflicts damage on anything your ship touches and grants temporary invincibility.

* HellIsThatNoise: Notoriously annoying enemies such as both types of Centipedes have their own alarm sound that blares signifying their appearances. Bosses have a warning siren that goes off before their appearances.

* SmartBomb: Clears a radius around your ship of lesser asteroids, enemies, and their bullets.

Super Stardust HD provides several modes of play, such as arcade, planet mode, and endless each with their own online leaderboards. The default game mode, Arcade, takes the player through a series of five planets, each consisting of five main phases, the last of which is a boss battle. Planet Mode allows the player to play any one of five planets in the same way, ending the game after the planet is complete. Both of these modes support both single-player and two-player cooperative play. Endless mode is where you face an endless wave of enemies where you try to get the highest score.

* AsteroidThicket: On a planetary shield. The playfield in later phases of later planets become virtually packed with asteroids.

* DeflectorShields: These protect against one fatal hit against your OneHitPointWonder ship.

* ZergRush: In non-Arcade game modes, swarms of red pyramids called Followers bear down towards your ship in vast numbers. If you are caught with low-level weaponry, be prepared to be mercilessly overwhelmed and die a swift death.

* DoABarrelRoll: Your ship has the ability to do an aileron roll to quickly escape tight situations and knock asteroids out of the way. It also inflicts damage on anything your ship touches while active.