--- title: "Retro Parsec - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: "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 " --- # Retro Parsec — United States > Remake of the TI-99/4a classic ![Retro Parsec App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/f9/d6/96/f9d696e7-5b5c-15a1-f71a-726a8625067b/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-4-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [Yesung Moore](https://apptail.io/developer/yesung-moore-Etkc) **Category:** Games **Rating:** 4.2/5 (48 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** com.softtango.Parsec **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 2.3 (released 2020-05-22) **Original Release:** 2016-04-11 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1059891563) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/united-states) ## Retro Parsec Description 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: - Waves of attack from seven different alien craft. - Challenging flights through refuelling tunnels. - Asteroid belts through which you must blast a path for your starship. - Synthesised speech to warn of approaching alien craft or when it's time to refuel. - Three different lifts to vary the speed at which the ship moves vertically. - 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. ## Retro Parsec Screenshots - [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/6f/7a/e3/6f7ae37b-c7cc-46b9-404b-62a6f0ec67bb/mzl.gsqyzswh.jpg/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/ba/22/d7/ba22d780-e461-fcaf-f721-238e236ab339/mzl.igebufqd.jpg/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/f8/0a/f5/f80af583-4d1c-be02-29ab-23922a697ebc/mzl.remyjasr.jpg/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple113/v4/53/13/d0/5313d09b-f657-31a0-d8b2-04dd7e53f189/mzl.uxsghhxk.jpg/960x640.png) - [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple123/v4/e1/ca/12/e1ca1221-b6a3-d199-a406-2befc1493d6e/mzl.obzodbnu.jpg/960x640.png) ## Retro Parsec Rating Breakdown in United States - 5 stars: 29 (60%) - 4 stars: 9 (19%) - 3 stars: 4 (8%) - 2 stars: 1 (2%) - 1 stars: 5 (10%) ## Retro Parsec Reviews in United States ### ***** "Only reason to own an iPhone" Seriously the best game ever made. Miss my ti99/4a -- shivers666, 2025-06-08 ### *---- "Crashes on my phone as soon as I open it" Too bad -- HollywoodRascal, 2024-08-29 ### *---- "Terrible controls for an awesome game" I loved Parsec on the TI-99/4a. This is a faithful reproduction, except for one thing. The controls are terrible! They only work intermittently, and the fixed location and small trigger areas only serves to highlight the shortcoming of touch-screen controls - you have to look at the controls, to use them. The control area is too small, which means you frequently miss them. Because they are fixed, you constantly have to look down to reorient your fingers. They also seem far more sensitive than the controls on the original. The game and ship speed at level 1 feels like level 3, on the original; it’s too easy to fly into the ground or an enemy ship. I want to love this game again, but it’s pretty much unplayable past level 1. -- NuZooRevue, 2023-10-20 ### ****- "Love this remake of an old classic" Nostalgic. Brings back memories of my first computer, the TI99/4A and it’s amazing gameplay. I played Parsec all the time. My only issue is with the controls. It’s difficult to play on my 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. It’s nearly off-screen for me. -- hernia1, 2023-03-24 ### ****- "Takes me back to my childhood!" Awesome remake! I forgot how difficult it was. However on my iPhone 14 pro max, the controls are in the corners, almost off the screen completely. Makes it difficult to hold the phone and they aren’t very responsive. They need to be moved in the screen more. Other than that it’s great! -- RetroGamer313, 2023-02-13 ### ***** "Outstanding!" Perfect emulation of a classic for old-timers like me! -- Mattjumbo, 2022-03-19 ### ****- "Feel like a kid again…but controls not responsive enough" I love this game,,,I wish the screen joystick control was more responsive and not so close to the edge. My son thinks it doesn’t work right because the controller is too close to the screen border. We are using a iPad Pro. -- thedivamommy, 2021-12-27 ### ****- "Only two thing needs to be changed" Please add external bluetooth joystick support, so that it will work with iPhone joysticks, and I can use a separate joystick just like I did back in my TI994A days. Please stop the top score from resetting. To encourage game play, I want to try to beat my last high score with my kids, but the app doesn’t retain the top score after exiting :( -- Buster9z, 2021-04-13 ### ***** "What a flashback!" 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... -- AbsolutmanMI, 2021-04-10 ### ***-- "Difficult to control" The graphics are great! I 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 don’t respond well. Fix those and I’ll give this a higher rating, and play it more! -- Gliderjockey, 2021-02-05 [View all Retro Parsec reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://app.apptail.io/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## Apps Similar to Retro Parsec - [PULSTAR ACA NEOGEO](https://apptail.io/app/pulstar-aca-neogeo-kQFc/united-states) - [Robots On](https://apptail.io/app/robots-on-pbqg/united-states) - [Tiny Circles](https://apptail.io/app/tiny-circles-RUOg/united-states) - [Evil Ducks Castle](https://apptail.io/app/evil-ducks-castle-TUOg/united-states) - [Tilty Drop!](https://apptail.io/app/tilty-drop-fKUi/united-states) - [Lil Ninja](https://apptail.io/app/lil-ninja-vTUi/united-states) - [Zylon Defenders](https://apptail.io/app/zylon-defenders-ycTn/united-states) - [Swashteroids](https://apptail.io/app/swashteroids-jfso/united-states) - [GeriantBourabula](https://apptail.io/app/geriantbourabula-vxww/united-states) - [Grid Ranger](https://apptail.io/app/grid-ranger-VEpx/united-states) ## Retro Parsec Available In - [United States](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/united-states) - [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/united-kingdom) - [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/canada) - [France](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/france) - [Germany](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/germany) - [Argentina](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/argentina) - [Italy](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/italy) - [Australia](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/australia) - [United Arab Emirates](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/united-arab-emirates) - [Finland](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/finland) - [Austria](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/austria) - [Portugal](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/portugal) - [Sweden](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/sweden) - [Colombia](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/colombia) - [Netherlands](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/netherlands) - [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/hong-kong) - [Hungary](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/hungary) - [Indonesia](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/indonesia) - [Ireland](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/ireland) - [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/israel) - [India](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/india) - [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/japan) - [South Korea](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/south-korea) - [Kuwait](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/kuwait) - [Kazakhstan](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/kazakhstan) - [Lebanon](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/lebanon) - [Madagascar](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/madagascar) - [Mexico](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/mexico) - [Malaysia](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/malaysia) - [Nigeria](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/nigeria) - [Norway](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/norway) - [New Zealand](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/new-zealand) - [Peru](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/peru) - [Pakistan](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/pakistan) - [Poland](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/poland) - [Romania](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/romania) - [Philippines](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/philippines) - [Azerbaijan](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/azerbaijan) - [Belgium](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/belgium) - [Brazil](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/brazil) - [Belarus](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/belarus) - [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/switzerland) - [Chile](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/chile) - [Czechia](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/czechia) - [Denmark](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/denmark) - [Dominican Republic](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/dominican-republic) - [Algeria](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/algeria) - [Ecuador](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/ecuador) - [Egypt](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/egypt) - [Spain](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/spain) - [Greece](https://apptail.io/app/retro-parsec-opvg/greece) --- ## About AppTail [AppTail](https://apptail.io) is a mobile app intelligence platform providing app analytics, ASO (App Store Optimization) tools, keyword tracking, competitor analysis, revenue estimates, and review monitoring for iOS App Store apps. Track your app's performance, discover ranking keywords, monitor competitors, and analyze market trends. - [Search Apps](https://apptail.io) - [Top Charts](https://apptail.io/top-iphone-apps) - [Sign Up for Full Access](https://app.apptail.io/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=footer) *Data provided by [AppTail](https://apptail.io) - Mobile App Intelligence Platform*