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Game Overview

Tommy's Meteors is one of those MS-DOS games that looks simple until you realize your hands are sweating and you've been holding your breath for the last 30 seconds. You're just a little pixelated ship—Tommy, I guess?—dodging an absolute avalanche of meteors that come at you faster every level. At first it feels manageable, like a chaotic but fair arcade throwback, but by level three you're muttering "oh come on" at the screen as the rocks start coming from angles you didn't even know existed.

There's something weirdly satisfying about how stripped-down it is. No story, no upgrades, just you and your reflexes against the universe's worst meteor shower. The controls are tight, which is good because you'll need every pixel of precision when the screen turns into a fireball pinball machine. I lost my first five games in under a minute, but that "one more try" hook is real—when you finally thread the needle through an impossible gap, it feels like cheating physics.

If you miss the days when games didn't hold your hand and a high score actually meant something, this is pure, unfiltered nostalgia with a side of panic.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".