# 8 planets game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-planets-game/586057>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 19, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-planets-game/586057 "2011-06-19T19:09:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-planets-game/586057/1 "2011-06-19T19:09:06Z")

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Am I missing something here? I am having a diffficult time beating the 6th level and have never beaten the 7th one(and the game has 40 levels).The crappy thing is if I beat level 6 and lose at level 7 it restarts at level 6.The directions are in japanese and I cannot find an english version.Are their powerups or something?

> **[8 Planets Game - Play online at Y8.com](https://www.y8.com/games/8_planets)**
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> Similar to the famous online game zuma!

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-planets-game/586057/2 "2011-06-19T21:02:21Z")

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I don’t know if there are powerups, but I did notice the animation when you lose fires much faster than you can. I think it’s just a case of poor performance in Flash (assuming the developer thinks the difficulty’s okay). I found the hit detection to be so bad that several times I fired at a wall of balls and the shot went entirely through them. So often you need to hit precisely in one spot - and missing can mean a huge difference - that it’s too tough to deal with the unknown way in which your shot will go.

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**Author:** ![stevenreed034](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@stevenreed034](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stevenreed034)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2011, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8-planets-game/586057/3 "2011-06-22T06:52:12Z")

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It was a excellent game… I have played lot of time.