Hellfire

Weapon changing system is really unique and fun, port is rock solid, I've never seen beyond the first level.

If you are rich, get an original SEGA Genesis and find a way to connect it to a modern TV. I own the original. PC controls are a mess. The game itself is great and the sound is better on Genesis.

I really enjoyed this one. I wasn't good at it but the levels were all great!

Another great port of bitwave with modern conveniences like small hitbox, autofire and rewind functions that makes this port better than a mame emulator . They have m2 quality when it comes to the basics (not so much options and a slightly inferior sound emulation). This game main mechanic is having a button that changes the direction of the bullets you fire in 4 ways: front, backward, up and down ,diagonals. It is a simple and basic game but tons of fun with unconventional game design as you will constanbtly will need to change the direction of the cannon as some enemyes can only be sniped in specific directions. It is a weird control a little complex that should not work so well but the level design is so good that strulling with this control is part of the fun..It has powerups to pick upfor power and speed. It suffers a bit from gradius syndrome. There are things than could be improved in this port. There could have been a player color swap for each direction. sometimes is hard to choose the right direction in the middle of the action. Also could have 2 buttons to cycle between the types of shoots instead of one like andro dunos 2. There could be a option to select the initial value of speed of the ship when you die (also for some of the other toaplan ports). i don´t have problems to die because i lack reflexes. i have problems to die when my ship hasn´t got enough speed to dodge bullets. Fortunaly we have a rewind button. Considering we have a good product at a cheap price these are minor complaints. Buy this game because is good and to support bitwave so they can release more toaplan games.

Very minor audio emulation issues. Other than that, its Hellfire. Not recommended if you have claustrophobia.

Excellente adaptation. J'apprécie tout particulièrement le mode 'assist' qui permet de rendre le jeu plus accessible tout en s'améliorant, ainsi que le filtre CRT qui permet d'approcher le rendu original qu'avait le jeu sur un écran CRT :)

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You won't get much use out of the stats widgets due to how hard it is to read them, but I guess it plays okay. Emulation still isn't great though and there's some distracting bugs with the extra features. The Genesis version of Hellfire is better anyway.

It’s an arcade pay to win coin muncher horizontal shooter. The gimmick is that the second button swaps your gun between forward, backwards, up & down, and cross patterns. And a lot of the things are actually designed around that gimmick. The hitboxes are not very good. The input delay is noticeable. And at max level it’s very twitchy. The Steam version is a great release. You can become a sportsmen and train to beat this ~30-minutes long unfair game created to steal coins, on one life. You can use save-games between the levels. Or you can rewind. There are no stupid baked-in envelopes for the render, allowing you to properly play it on your 3//4 screen without ~boxing.

Toller Klassiker von Toaplan. Hatte guten, harten Spaß mit diesem gnadenloßen Horizontalshooter. Der Clou ist hier das 4er Waffensystem, man kann blitzschnell zwischen allen 4 Schussmodi wechseln wobei der lila Standardlaser nach vorne feuert, der gelbe nach hinten, der grüne parallel nach oben und unten und der blaue gleichzeitig in alle 4 Diagonalen. Die Levels und Bosse sind abwechslungsreich man muss immer den richtigen Schussmodi bereithaben. Für 1989 sieht das Game auch gut aus, Musik und Sound gehen auch in Ordnung. Etwas schade finde ich lediglich dass die vom Arcadegame doch etwas abweichenden Ports für Megadrive + PC Engine nicht mitveröffentlicht wurden (und auch sonst nicht auf Steam erhältlich sind).