Vanguard Cheats
for Atari 2600

Extended Invincibility

When you get the little E-boxes, you can extend the duration of the invincibility a long time, because every time you run into an enemy while the music plays, it plays that bit of the music over again from the beginning, so if the enemies are spaced out right, it can last for a really long time...

Infinite Lives

Fry until your ship is black instead of pink (it will either start playing automatically, or on the map screen, where you won't be visible because the background is black too). The number of lives will be random, and not change accordingly when you die. Eventually, your ship will revert to pink, and you'll have to use the other controller, but you'll still have unlimited lives.

If you fly long enough on the board where you have to kill all the enemies on the screen, you will automatically veer into a wall and the board will be finished. So you can play more or less forever.

Playing Tip

In the Stripe Zone, you can choose to go either right or left. If you go right, then only the enemies which reside on that side will show up, and the same goes for the left side. The trick: stay on the right side until the Energy Pod appears. Then take the left path. The Energy Pod will rhythmically switch between a forward E and a backward E.