Full playthrough of the popular space-shooter game with parallax scrolling Bosconian. Released back in 1981, the game features speech, quality graphics, fast action gameplay and excellent sounds.
2:16 the arrangement of the enemy space stations on the right is in the shape of the constellation of Orion, and the one two levels after is the Big Dipper plus Polaris the north star on the top left
I was lucky enough to find this game tucked away in the hotel me and my parents stayed at. I barely left the hotel i was playing this game so much. Never saw it again.
Go look it up on Wikipedia. It’s success was stunted due to Galaga. Such a shame. I’ve never seen it until I discovered it on one of my old PS1 retro arcade discs earlier this year.
On other versions of the game you get a "condition red" if you let 3 spy ships pass. Also once you're on a red you should get no more "formation attacks". But on this version, even if you shot all the spy ships you still get a condition red.
I think most people's first exposure to this game was on a plug n' play, and the port for that seems pretty bad compared to this. No diagonal movement, no voice clips, and 2 very short music loops that get maddening after playing for a while.
I have this on the pac man 35th anniversary connect and play and it's the exact arcade port. Same sounds and visuals also my favourite game on the system
FINALLY FOUND IT!!!!! for years was trying to remember the name of this game! I used to play this game for hours at the arcade near home. Thank you @hirudov2d for this video, you brought so many memories from my childhood.
@@timhill3534 I whish. I was just happy to have found this video. For years I was trying to remember the name of this game I used to play a lot back in 1989. Now I can try to find the actual machine but it might be very difficult and also expensive
@timhill3534 Bosconian machines are kinda scarce due to them being converted into other games Galaga especially. In fact Bally Midway converted some Bosconian machines at the factory into "White Galaga" units. So if you ever see a Galaga in a white cabinet it was likely a Bosconian at one point.
I suppose the battle stations carry gas tanks to light on fire and throw at the ships, because if you shoot at the center of the station, it blows up, so that's where they might keep the gas tanks.
Not what you're looking for, I know, but a retro port of this for the Atari 8-bit just came out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TMV5KN477_s.html
