Tag: Shoot’em Up
Hyperdrive is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up game for the Amstrad CPC with 64K of RAM or more and the GX4000. The game offers classic shoot’em up action with a smooth one-pixel scroll at 25 frames per second, not often experienced on the Amstrad CPC. Hyperdrive implements the power-up system seen in Uchūsen Gamma (MSX, 2019; by the same author)….
The Shoot Em Up Destruction Set 3 (SEUDS 3), previously released in cassette tape or disk by Psytronik, is now available in digital form for just USD 2.99 (or more if you are a good person ;) ). SEUDS 3 contains nothing less than six enhanced SEUCK games created by Alf Yngve. Enhanced because all the games got an overhaul…
Uchūsen Gamma is a vertical shoot’em to be released on November 29th, 2019. It has been developed by Juan J. Martinez (code, graphics and sound), known from previous releases for other 8-bit systems such as The Dawn of Kernel (Amstrad CPC), Rescuing Orc (Commodore 64) or Magica (Amstrad CPC), and the most recent Night Knight single-screen platformer for the MSX….
A quick update about DeltaStar Earth Defense: Although the plan was to launch the game at the end of July, as we proclaimed here, Adrian Cummings has just announced that due to a series of (good) factors, the game released has been moved to… NOW! Yes, the future proud ZX Spectrum Next owners are able to order the game now, in digital download…
Early February I shared some News about an upcoming Amiga Shoot’em Up called Inviyya by Tigerskunk. A demo of the game was released for Revision 2018, which came 4th place. You can now download the demo for yourself and have a play. The game should run happily on an Amiga 500 OCS/ECS with at least 1 mb of RAM, Kickstart…
Ziriax is a horizontal scroller for the Amiga that was developed by The Whiz Kidz (a group of Belgium-based coders) and released by Software Business way back in 1990. Influenced by Arcade Shoot’em ups such as Nemesis, Vulcan Venture, Sky Shark and Thundercross, Ziriax is a four stage shoot’ em up, in which you fight against waves of bullet-spewing aliens…
Salinas Franck shared some interesting News on Sarah’s Speccy Group about a new homebrew ZX Spectrum game by Antonio J Pérez. Most of you should be familiar with the name “Fantasy Zone”. I’m a HUGE fan of this game and often play the Sega Master System and PC Engine versions. Originally a 1985 Sega Arcade game, Fantasy Zone was also…
Sunteam has released a new ZX Spectrum styled shoot ’em up for Windows. Feeling like a cross between Space Invaders and Missile Command, you have to protect pods from enemy fire, by either destroying the enemies before they can shoot, or intercepting their bullets with your seemingly invincible ship (which slowly follows the horizontal position of your targetting cursor). The…
A new vertical shooter called RMD, short for Raiden MoDoki, has been added to the MSX shooter arsenal. This game, by Naoki Ito from Japan, shows us the power of C compiled games for MSX. It is free to download or play online. MRC user N.I., the handle of Japanese MSX user Naoki Ito, has been busy lately making games….
The New Dimension‘s Richard Bayliss has announced on Twitter that the SEUCK game competition for 2016/2017 deadline has arrived and it has received nine contestants. Now it is time for you help to choose the best ones. To do that, you can head over The New Dimension website, download, play and finally vote. The winners will get extra help to either…
