Vax-11

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