There were two great shmups for mac.

One was the first 256 color game I ever saw running on a personal computer, with no music but good sound effects. It ran on a Mac LC (first model), and had right-to-left scrolling. The ship and background was seen from the side [I know many meet this description but I assume there mustn't be much games like this from that era, this was 1988 or 89 IIRC].

The second one was much more recent (1994 maybe), and was some kind of gyruss clone (i.e. the ship goes around the screen, like if it was in a tunnel). It's not tempest (very different graphical style), and not Maelstrom either. I remember that there was a level selection screen that reminds of Starfox (you choose which planets you travel to, and the levels are sections between the planets).

Rings any bells? :-)








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the first one sound likes R-Type (which was ported to a handfull at the time.. from the Master System to the MSX iirc, maybe the Mac had a port too ?)

don't know about the second one.. sorry..


> There were two great shmups for mac.
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> One was the first 256 color game I ever saw running on a personal computer, with
> no music but good sound effects. It ran on a Mac LC (first model), and had
> right-to-left scrolling. The ship and background was seen from the side [I know
> many meet this description but I assume there mustn't be much games like this
> from that era, this was 1988 or 89 IIRC].
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> The second one was much more recent (1994 maybe), and was some kind of gyruss
> clone (i.e. the ship goes around the screen, like if it was in a tunnel). It's
> not tempest (very different graphical style), and not Maelstrom either. I
> remember that there was a level selection screen that reminds of Starfox (you
> choose which planets you travel to, and the levels are sections between the
> planets).
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> Rings any bells? :-)
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> the first one sound likes R-Type (which was ported to a handfull at the time..
> from the Master System to the MSX iirc, maybe the Mac had a port too ?)

It was far more primitive than R-Type... it may even be a small shareware game. Thanks for the answer anyway.

I've checked the Shmups page, but they have no Mac section over there. Oh well, the Mac has always been an undercover gaming machine ("Warcraft Three... Breakout... Super Breakout... photoshop..." :) ).



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