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?
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.