Now retro specialist Bitwave Games has joined in, bringing PC owners Toaplan Arcade Shoot ‘Em Up Collection Vol.1.
That means you won’t find dense bullet clouds or highly complex scoring systems here.
The very best players out there to whom a second is enough time for all kinds of strategic play?
Perhaps they’d feel tiny shifts more than other of players.
And the spread of games?
Each brings plenty to adore.
It plays lively and dramatic, with every credit feeling like its own distinct ride.
Then there is 1987’s Twin Cobra.
It’s the oldest game in this volume, and certainly the most conventional.
It’s not that Twin Cobra is a bad game, or anything of the like.
In tone and design and spirit it just feels rather more familiar.
The highlight, though, must be Out Zone.
It scrolls vertically, but the scrolling stops if you do.
The strategy of play comes in matching ideal weapon behaviour with the immediate surroundings.
And having never been officially released outside of arcades before, it really increases the appeal of this package.
Or three brilliant shooters and one that falls a little behind with age.
The thing is, the standard set by M2 has now left shooting game players with rather high standards.
Beyond a game’s own difficulty parameters, Bitwave’s effort does include ‘normal’ and ‘hard’ variants.
All these games are belong to you?
Everyone should try Truxton and Out Zone.
