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Vectorblade is a Vectrex port of a PC game called Warblade. This is an overhead scrolling shooter with some great use of the Vectrex. This is a genre that has been around for decades. Interestingly, it was not one that hit the Vectrex, until now. This is one I might be decent at.
Posts Tagged ‘scrolling shooter’
Vectrex Vectorblade Could See 2020 Release
July 12th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Console, News, Vextrex 
Tags: overhead scrolling shooter, scrolling shooter, vectorblade, Vertical shooter, warblade 
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Screaming Wings 2020 Improves Atari 8 Bit Computer Game
July 11th, 2020 Carl Williams Screaming Wings 2020 is an interesting creation. At its core it is mainly a graphical improvement. What it represents is just how cool computer gaming can be. Sure, there have been graphical improvements for console games. Sadly, most of those require a specific emulator to run. Worst case scenario they run on original hardware but […]
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Posted in Atari 800 XL/XE, Comp, News Tags: arcade, Atari Age, AtariAge, bandit gaming, hack, improvement, overhead scrolling shooter, Screaming Wings, scrolling shooter No Comments »
Twenty Super NES Cult Titles Free on Nintendo Switch
September 9th, 2019 Carl Williams After the announcement during the latest Nintendo Direct live streaming, the home of the great N in Kyoto has made available the first twenty Super NES titles playable on Switch at no additional cost to all subscribers of the Online service of their hybrid console (although the new Lite version will only be a portable […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Switch Tags: action, adventure, Brawler Puzzle, racing, scrolling shooter, super fx No Comments »
Sega Genesis Sees Three New Games Incoming from Piko Interactive
March 16th, 2019 Carl Williams Sega, forever the second to Nintendo, had one success story against their former rival. That being the Sega Genesis, especially with the release of Sonic the Hedgehog. While it is hard to quantify if this is the reason gamers today still have a fondness for Sega’s 16-bit entry or not, it is easy to see […]
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Sine Mora Ex on Nintendo Switch versus Playstation 3
April 16th, 2017 Carl Williams I am a huge fan of scrolling shooters. I suck at them but I like things that go boom in pretty explosions. Years ago, though, about 25 years or so, I was really good at these, never able to one man any single game but still able to beat man with the allotted lives. Years […]
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Posted in News, Nintendo, Playstation 3, Sony, Switch Tags: Nintendo Switch, playstation 3, ps3, scrolling shooter, Sine Mora No Comments »
Ghost Blade HD Brings Indie Bullet Hell Dreamcast Game to PC
March 7th, 2017 Carl Williams Ghost Blade by Hucast games is one of those indie games that we saw years after the demise of the Sega Dreamcast. What set Ghost Blade apart from the competition was the graphics, sound, and the challenge level. Everything appeared more like an official release than an indie game developed with after the fact tools. […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Nintendo, Sony, Xbox Tags: bullet hell, Ghost Blade HD, HuCast Games, overhead, scrolling shooter No Comments »
Chibi Akuma(s) – New ‘Bullet Hell’ Shooter Blasts onto Amstrad CPC
December 30th, 2016 Neil Reive This has been a fantastic year for the Amstrad CPC 8-bit computer with a long list of activity on the new games front and, just before the year ends, we get another fine addition to that list. Chibi Akuma(s): Episode 1: Invasion, which takes full advantage of an Amstrad CPC computer with 128k of memory, […]
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Review – Burger Time for Amstrad CPC
November 4th, 2016 CPC4EVA I don’t know much about the background of this game, but judging from what I observed I’d say this game was developed at one of those Amstrad CPC demo parties of yesteryear. 1995 to be exact, where the coders ZAK, ZIK and Rainbird of Futures group probably had a pig out session on junk food […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 2d, Big Mac, Burger Time, flying sauce, McDonald's, Pepsi, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, scrolling shooter, shoot-em up No Comments »
Swabby Homebrew Independent Sega Game Gear Shooter Released
June 17th, 2016 Carl Williams Scrolling shooters. You are probably tired of me bringing up that the heyday of this genre being long gone. That is fine. It seems to be working. We are seeing more scrolling shooting games pop up from the independent developer world. That makes me happy. I mean, I still for the most part suck at […]
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Posted in News, Sega Tags: altered beast, forums, game gear, master system, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, scrolling shooter, sega, Sega Game Gear, shinobi, side scrolling, SMSPower, sonic the hedgehog, Swabby No Comments »
Review – Air Attack 2 Overhead Shooter Android iPhone
June 1st, 2016 Carl Williams Classic genres such as overhead shooters have been finding a new home in the mobile world. That is great for fans that just want to see more overhead shooters. Many of these newer games are not my cup of tea though- they are of the “bullet hell” style which I can honestly do without. I […]
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Posted in News, Portables, Reviews Tags: Air Attack 2, android, Art in Games, google play, iphone, itunes, overhead, planes, review, scrolling shooter, Sky Force 2014 No Comments »
