Gorf (Midway, april 81)
A Phoenix variant copying several games: SI, Space Laser, Galaxian... Stages are very distinct, the gameplay is good, it has a rank system, synthetized speech, music... It's a pretty good shmup, even a bit more popular than Phoenix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Io4eJ2fF3A
A Phoenix variant copying several games: SI, Space Laser, Galaxian... Stages are very distinct, the gameplay is good, it has a rank system, synthetized speech, music... It's a pretty good shmup, even a bit more popular than Phoenix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Io4eJ2fF3A
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A ship at the top, red orbs dropping down, an asteroid field slowly descending, basic gameplay, weird concept, boring and repetitive game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iYdcAx-iY8
Your ship can shoot in 3 directions, and enemies change look for each wave but don't change behavior. It never stops, and never changes, so it's real boring pretty quick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-VfOyBpMtY
A Phoenix variant, with some copied and some original elements, with a few different gameplays: defending a base, shooting UFOs, then landing on an airstrip. It's not extremely original, but it's still pretty fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKws-_IkHQ0
The first of a long series of games copying Scramble - this one has the luxury of alternating horizontal and vertical scrolling, but it's technically very poor with jittery animations and enemis that "jump" from one place to another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5iHfmlvnIU
A slight update on '79 Astro Fighter, which mostly adds a background. The only "interesting" feature of this game is being on DECO Cassette, a very cheap option for operators that already own the system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wQMRw4MJDM
You control a ship using a trackball, moving freely in the lower area of the screen. There are mushrooms blocking your shots, centipedes going down, spiders and insects coming from the bottom and the sides. It's a pretty trippy shmup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgwXfT9haEs