Retro Parsec
Step into the gaming world with Retro Parsec, one of the top $0.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Yesung Moore, this captivating Action game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 9+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 11th April 2016, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 22nd May 2020.
Whether you have a liking for Action, Entertainment, games, Retro Parsec is sure to keep you hooked!
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Dive into Retro Parsec
Enjoy the nostalgia of this classic game re-created in the original style of the TI-99/4a computer game from the 1980’s!
Re-live the era with blocky but colourful graphics and simple but captivating sound effects.
You are the commander of the starship Parsec patrolling an alien planet. Suddenly, the on-board computer announces that you are about to come under attack by small alien fighters and large, heavily armed, hostile alien cruisers!
The fighters are highly mobile, and unless they are eliminated by your laser, they fill the screen, restrict manoeuvering of your craft, and may cause a deadly collision. The cruisers are highly aggressive and their armament devastating. Armed with photon missiles, they track your ship and fire on it. You must out-manoeuver and destroy them with accurate fire from your ship’s laser. If you survive the waves of alien craft, do not let down your guard, for you also have to blast through an asteroid belt or refuel your ship, demanding the utmost in skilful flying.
Parsec is a challenging, exciting game packed with thrills. Danger and excitement are brought on with each new attack. Some of Parsec’s features include:
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Waves of attack from seven different alien craft.
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Challenging flights through refuelling tunnels.
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Asteroid belts through which you must blast a path for your starship.
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Synthesised speech to warn of approaching alien craft or when it’s time to refuel.
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Three different lifts to vary the speed at which the ship moves vertically.
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Increased difficulty levels to challenge you.
Parsec is a one-player game which tests your skills and strategy. Movement of the ship on screen may be controlled by on-screen controls or an MFI certified Bluetooth controller.
When the Bluetooth controller is used, the A button is for firing the laser and the B button alters the lift speed.
Scoring of points for destroying alien craft increases with waves and levels. Bonus points are awarded for successfully navigating an asteroid belt and refuelling.
Asteroid belts increase in speed and duration as levels increase. Extra ships are awarded at certain score levels throughout the game.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Retro Parsec on 22nd May 2020:
Fixed a bug which caused screen scaling issues with iPhone X and newer when the app was launched while holding the phone in portrait position.
Hear from the Players – Retro Parsec Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Retro Parsec:
Thanks for putting some amber around a great part of our childhood.
This is exactly like playing the old TI 99/4A game! Thank you so much for making this. Now if someone could just make a version of TI Invaders…
Perfect emulation of a classic for old-timers like us!
Please add external bluetooth joystick support, so that it will work with iPhone joysticks, and we can use a separate joystick just like we did back in our TI994A days. Please stop the top score from resetting. To encourage game play, we want to try to beat our last high score with our kids, but the app doesnt retain the top score after exiting :(
We love this game,,,I wish the screen joystick control was more responsive and not so close to the edge. Our son thinks it doesnt work right because the controller is too close to the screen border. We are using a iPad Pro.
Awesome remake! We forgot how difficult it was. However on our iPhone 14 pro max, the controls are in the corners, almost off the screen completely. Makes it difficult to hold the phone and they arent very responsive. They need to be moved in the screen more. Other than that its great!
Nostalgic. Brings back memories of our first computer, the TI99/4A and its amazing gameplay. We played Parsec all the time. Our only issue is with the controls. Its difficult to play on our iPhone 13 Pro Max. Can the controls be moved closer to the center – at least for the larger form factors? The fire button is in the lower-right corner and is often missed when tapped. Its nearly off-screen for us.
The graphics are great! We would play this a lot more but the controls are difficult. The joystick is sluggish and the fire and lift buttons are difficult to hit. They dont respond well. Fix those and Ill give this a higher rating, and play it more!
Doesnt work at all anymore. Closes app in a split second once you open it.
Fantastic port. Grew up on the TI/994a computer and this one got played frequently. This works excellent with a controller (I use a Nimbus). Would LOVE to see Hunt the Wumpus and Alpiner in the future since this developer nailed exact ports of Parsec and MunchMan. Thanks for the nostalgia!
We absolutely love this app. Ah, the memories it brings as a young kid paying this game with parents, siblings, and friends back in the 80s on our new Texas Instrument game consoles. Thank you for creating this app to allow such wonderful memories to resurface! To our dismay, with the recent iPhone and iOS upgrades, theres a screen resolution issue causing the bottom portion of the game screen not to be visible. Ill continue play occasionally on an older phone as long its still operational. Our fingers are crossed the developers will do an upgrade allowing us nostalgic players to once again play to our hearts content on more current platforms. Thank you again for creating this app and letting us re-live such childhood memories!!! Let Parsec live on!!
We love this game! It looks almost exactly like the original. Our only problem is somehow our screen is zoomed in and we cant see the score. How can we correct this? We would gladly give 5 stars otherwise!!
Would love keyboard commands, otherwise excellent!
We bought this last night and played for a bit. Closed it and opened, now there is no ground. Opened it today and there is still no ground. Cant see score, lives, fuel, etc.
This was the first game we played on the first computer we ever owned. Was very excited to find it and alleviated the very accurate recreation. Unfortunately the experience is ruined by poor controls on the iPhone. Stuck in the lower corners with several misses during key moments in the game. Also game should only be played on the iPad where controls and the entire screen can be seen (bottom landscape cutoff on iPhone version). Am we supposed to use a separate controller? That doesnt fix the landscape cutoff (cant refuel).
This is awesome! Super accurate rendition of the game we loved so much back then. Thank you!!
What a great reproduction! Thank you for making this. We hope you’ll consider recreating Munchman and Hunt the Wumpus!
The TI 99/4A was our first computer, and Parsec was our favorite game on it (though we didn’t have the speech synthesizer). This game is a spot-on recreation — right down to the littlest details in the scrolling terrain and the way that only one sound effect can be heard at a time. It would be nice if the game would keep and display high scores. Also, the "joystick" can be twitchy (often when we slide it to go up, it starts off by moving the plane down before correcting), particularly on the smaller phone screen as opposed to on a big iPad screen. But these are mere quibbles. Five stars for the sheer joy of being able to relive happy childhood moments!
As close as iOS can get to the TI-99!
Great work on this. We’ll never get any work done and our phone battery will be completely drained.
Thank you so much for writing this game. It feels just like playing Parsec on the TI 994/A. Please tell us you are writing Tunnels of Doom! Thank you again!!!!
Very faithful to the classic original! Great fun on top of inspiring enormous nostalgia. This is the app that may finally make us buy a Bluetooth controller.
This game works well especially when you use a joystick. Would be really cool also if there was an Apple TV app. But we are very pleased with the performance on our iPad Pro. Love this game is a child TI 99 computer.
Please add a "Continue" button so that we can continue from last level! Pleeeeease!! :)
Thank you for releasing Parsec for us!! We owned a Texas Instruments computer as a kid, and missed playing Parsec and Munch Man dearly through the years. There was only a few games, and the speaker was sold separate from the computer, so when we were finally able to afford it, the games sounds were so awesome!! And coding was fun to do as well, and there was only a few things you could do, and the internet wasnt around yet, so everything was new and amazing.
Its an excellent recreation of this great TI game. In level 2, the bynite ships disappear before they are destroyed. We dont recall that happening in the original game. On our iPhone X, the control stick gets stuck if you move your thump outside of the circle. It would be great if the control provided some type of haptic feedback when youre at the movement limit.
Waste of money, we were thinking Defender… Not even close. Very little effort went in to this.
We cant get this app to make sound.
Our neohew accidentally downloaded this app and we want a refund. Its such a creepy game. Im getting serial killer vibes from this. Refund please. Gracias.