I remember playing this when I was in highschool. I'm still salty at a friend who misunderstood the final boss fight and unloaded all his missiles at the controls behind the boss, giving us a game over.
I had this game on my Amiga 500 many years ago. Now, i have it on my PlayStation 2 in a compilation called TAITO LEGENDS. Me and my friend played it once completely. It's like OPERATION WOLF... Except one thing: In space, no one can hear you SCREAM! Excellent longplay! 😺👍🕹️
Geez, this is a creepy game. They really nailed all the worst aspects of hostile extraterrestrial activity, from the unsettling transformation of the environment to be repurposed for the aliens, to the eggs, to the human corpses littered about. But the worst thing to watch were the people running toward you that were already foregone and mutated into aliens themselves.
Also the cocoons in the alien hive... most of which just disintegrate once you shoot them, the people inside already too far gone. Worst for me (though you don't see it in this playthrough) is in the lab section - one enemy is a milky white jellified blob of (ex)human heads and tentacles
Man I wish I’d seen this in arcades. I definitely would’ve dropped a lot of quarters into it. There are so many great arcade machines that just never made it anywhere near where I lived, though!
One of my favorite light gun games. Cool how it has kind of a Dead Space vibe (or rather, Dead Space has a Space Gun vibe) to it with limb severing being more beneficial than headshots. I wonder EA borrowed from this or if it's just coincidence?
A remastered version of this game need's to happen, i recall back in the 90s filling the arcade machine with pound coins and blocking it trying to play this.
Was about to ask about controlled movement. Read the video info first! Nice shooter and not too long, but i noticed that power-ups sometimes don't give ammo
In my playthrough those humanoid aliens are much more durable, shooting them nonstop and they don't even flinch and can still attack, even a T-800 in T2 arcade isn't that sturdy. And that final boss was just plain evil, a breakable control panel that automatically gives you the bad ending if you destroy it, forcing you to watch your shots (on a gun that only shoots auto and not single fire) while the boss constantly throws several projectiles that needs to be shot down I'd expect this kind of unfairness from SNK, but not Taito of all people
As I recall, the wall boxes just contain ammo for the special weapons. You DO find varying numbers of hostages on the different routes through the levels.
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