Apologies if this isn’t the right format.
I remember playing this vertical shoot em up at the arcade many, MANY, years ago. The year should be between 1991 and 1993.
The player controlled a red flying car (blue for the second player) and it fired blue lasers as a stream. By getting upgrades, I remember the laser becoming bigger and bigger until it basically formed a diamond shape at the end of the screen.
The starting level, and the one next to it, were set on Earth. I honestly don’t know if there were levels set on space or something, as I never reached it. I remember the owner proudly saying that he always set the dip switches for all the games to the higher difficulty. Not sure if true, or if I just sucked. 🤷♀️
Does anyone have any idea what this game could possibly be?
The one I’m thinking of had spaceships but they did look kind of like cars. It’s the TwinBee series of games. Everything else you described sounds spot on for that game. There was an NES version in America called Stinger that I had in either the very late 80s or very early 90s
Definitely not that, but thank you. The one I’m talking about didn’t have cartoon like graphics. While obviously drawn in, it tried to be somewhat realistic.
I looked into it little further, would it be a game called Turbo Force?
YES! That’s it!
Thank you so much! It’s been years and no one could ever identify it!
No problem! I’d never heard of that one but it looks really fun!
Tyrian.
The iconic DOS shmup, featuring ship upgrades, 4 full episodes, and an excellent music.
I don’t care if the answer is wrong, play it anyway.
There’s an open-source port so you don’t even need to run DosBox:
https://github.com/opentyrian/opentyrian
If you use Linux, playing it as easy as
sudo apt-get install opentyrianAnd it’s available on Android too:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode.opentyrian
Play OpenTyrian today, you will enjoy it.
Definitely not Tyrian. Still play it from time to time.
