Thursday, February 2, 2012

Mid-90s Shmup Identification

Question

I'm looking for a shoot-em-up from way back in the mid-90s that I had an awful lot of fun with.

I specifically remember having to reboot my Windows 95 PC to run DOS so that I could play this game, if that helps.

I don't remember anything particularly unusual about it - futuristic ships flying around a 2D landscape shooting enemies and dodging projectiles. I think it had different ship options and different weapons, but I can't really remember the specifics.

One specific thing I do remember is some sort of code you could type in at the main menu to play a Scorched Earth clone, which was actually a ton of fun.

Answer

Tyrian is what comes to mind.

p.s., The code is DESTRUCT. ;)

Here's a video playing destruct

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