| Silpheed | Game Arts Co., Ltd. / Sierra On-Line, Inc. | 1989 | |
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Release Date: 1989 Designed by Thexder designers S. Uesaka and H. Godai, the player pilots a spaceship through levels of increasing difficulty, in a pseudo-3D vertically scrolling field, shooting everything in his path. New weapons will become available as he gathers points, and power-ups are sprinkled throughout the levels. It has 20 action-packed levels that feature diverse backgrounds, enemies, and very cool power-ups you can keep from level to level to prepare for the ultimate showdown with Xacalite, the evil warlord. The game was notable for its use of pre-rendered 3D polygonal graphics played as a full motion video background to simulate real-time computer graphics and a tilted third-person perspective. The game is one of the first-ever that used music as a selling point. It came bundled free with the CMS Game Blaster sound card. There was a later version (3.2) released that specifically supported the IBM PS/1 Audio Card, and is the only DOS version of the game to have support for sampled sound effects and speech. The card supports 3-voice Tandy sound style music, but can work with another music device like the Roland MT-32 with the PS/1 Audio Card being used for sound effects and speech. | ||
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