What's that game? Dos 1980s.

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What's that game? Dos 1980s.

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This might be impossibly obscure, but I'm trying to remember a shmup from my childhood. It was a DOS game from sometime in the 1980s. I had it on a 5" floppy disk. I don't believe it was shareware.

It was a vertical shooter where you fought waves of abstract enemies. But each wave had only 1 type of enemy. The screen didn't scroll, so it was a bit like Galaga or Galaxian. On the even numbered waves, instead of fighting enemies you negotiated in narrow tunnel that zig-zagged and tried to avoid walls. There were no power-ups. The graphics were simple but colorful.

The title might have had the word "blast" or "blaster" in it. But that could be a red herring since searching those words on Moby Games does not find it. Any guesses on this one? It may be too obscure. I had it on a disk where I had also copied the DOS version of Phoenix. 8) Good times.
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Round 42.
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Xenon?
Slordax: The Unknown Enemy?
Vanguard?
Xenocide?
OverKill: The Six Planet Mega-Blast?
Tubular Worlds?
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incognoscente wrote:Round 42.
Holy shit! That's it. I'm really impressed such an obscure game was nailed on the first guess. Great work!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1O5-sgiNKc

it looks like a retro version of shooting love. Anyone know if these sort of games have a generic term at all? mini game shmup?
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Now that I've seen the video, I actually remember playing this. It must have been about 20 years ago, though.
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Andi wrote:
incognoscente wrote:Round 42.
Holy shit! That's it. I'm really impressed such an obscure game was nailed on the first guess. Great work!
You'd be surprised how often that happens around here.
Look at our friendly members:
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njiska wrote:You'd be surprised how often that happens around here.
/me looks at Andi's join date

@ Incognoscente: Good show. How did you know that one?
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