Silpheed

Classic shooting in a pseudo-three-dimensional environment, which will allow you to become the pilot of a space fighter called Slipheed. Your task is to destroy an alien Xacalite being who wants to conquer the United Universe.

Before the main goal of the mission is achieved, you have to go through twenty large stages, in which our vehicle will be attacked by hundreds of enemy spacecraft. Initially we are equipped only with a basic cannon, which is able to repel the smallest enemy units. Only in space bases, to which we arrive after the end of a given phase, we can arm the vehicle with more effective tools of annihilation. The amount of available arsenal depends on our results from the previous round. If you allowed too many enemy ships to escape, don't count on the generosity of the army. During the game, you can also meet various bonuses, which in different ways affect our fighter. Thus, it is possible to increase the force of weapon destruction and its rapidity, strengthen the protective shield and repair damaged systems. In the game there are no additional "lives", so you need to keep the integrity of the ship like an eye in your head. Direct hits can damage the rudder (the ship is more difficult to steer), or one of the missile launchers. Complete destruction of Slipheed means the automatic end of the game.

As befits a good conversion from the machine, Game Arts programmers managed to preserve the specific spirit of the original. The program is very playable and will not get bored quickly. The only drawback is the somewhat impoverished audio-visual setting, but the then PCs did not allow much in this respect.

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Last updated on August 14, 2015