Meteor Defense
2002–2005 · Java applet

A Missile Command–inspired defense game. You’re at the bottom of the screen, meteors fall from above, you shoot them down before they hit the ground. Demo for the Java game programming series. The interesting technical bit was managing dozens of simultaneous projectile trajectories without dropping below 30fps in a browser-embedded JVM.
Download the original code archive (won't run in a modern browser, but the source is preserved).