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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Vax-11 is probably the best example of how a shmup from the Pong era would look like. Done entirely using ASCII, it has everything you'd expect to see in a Japanese freeware shooter.

Power-ups, bombs, good frame rates, end level bosses, they're all there.

Name: Vax-11
Developer: Hello World Project
Category: Shooter
Type: Demo
Size: 1MB
2 Comments:
Anonymous Anonymous said at 9/11/2005 10:43:00 AM:  
anybody knows of a linux port?
Blogger Tim said at 9/16/2005 02:07:00 PM:  
none, sorry... :(