Major Stryker

trash

0.4 hours on Steam, countless hours in the 90s when I was a kid on our old PC. The game's shareware (demo, for all you younger gamers) game in a collection of games that included the entirely of the first alien planet. I remember as a kid anxiously waiting for the full version to arrive in the mail after my dad ordered it on 2 floppy disks XD. Seeing it on Steam, I had to have it. This game is just as fun as I remember; running up your burst rating as high as possible to fill the screen with laser blasts, blowing the enemy away with Zap Bombs, chewing your way through every base, zone, and boss, and groaning at the absolute cheese of flirty pick-up lines the fleet admiral levels at you after every level. The game is a fantastic stroll down memory lane. If you want to play a good, solid retro shooter, this is more than worth the $3 it's priced at.

It's fun in that lack of pretense way that many shareware games, but I find it funny that they released this game in 1993, the year of the CDROM, 3 years after Xenon 2, the year of Myst and 7th Guest, the year of Cannon Fodder, hell, the year of Doom itself. And it plays and feels like a shareware game of 1990. Apart from the really clunky scrolling (something that was common on a lot of PC games at the time) it is fun, it has cool power ups, and the opl2 music is also fun.

Nice old Shump!

[h1]The hardest game of Space Invader I've ever played. 5/10[/h1]

man i loved this game as a kid still so good i use to think the guy on the loading screen looked old now he just looks like me.