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I'm trying to remember a game I played on windows 95/98, some kind of first person shooter with a medical theme. The game was 2D, with sprites being scaled to give a sense of depth. You where piloting a miniaturized ship in the human body, trying to eliminate all viruses in the screen. The game was in first person, but with only lateral movement available, your ship could go up/down and left/right to shoot the enemies.
You had too shoot all enemies on the screen before too much reached the background and damaged the patient or reached you and destroy your ship. There were lots of different enemies, from fast, bat like bacteria to hamburger-cholesterol and joker like viruses. Each screen background was a body part, like the eye, the stomach or the heart.
The game was divided into missions, each being a different patient. A mission was one or more screen, and was introduced with a briefing about the illness and where the mission took place, and a debriefing showing how well we did. The briefing was some kind a slide-show, with your superior describing the procedure. You would also sometimes have a small quiz about the place where you would operate, asking informations like the number of bones in the leg... All the informations were present in a in-game encyclopedia.
Sometime, when you ended a mission, you would gain a rank, going trough a cinematic where you would see yourself getting your new insignia. You could also gain medals for special achievements, like ending a mission without having the patient damaged.
Answer
The game is Bodyworks Voyager – Mission in Anatomy, released in 1994.
Image from Moby Games.
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