...is an arcarde game like Defender and Stargate. It offers a large number of moving shapes, fast accellerated scrolling and digi sounds. The object of the game is to protect humanoids on various number of moons from alien attack waves.
The Defender: Your ship! Equiped with
the latest engines, offensive weapons and defense systems. The engines enable
your ship to fast accelaration and auto reverse. The quickfire laser, which
is the main offensive weapon, has great power and is capable of fast
recharging. Additionally, your ship can fire smartbombs (2nd button on your
joystick or space bar), which will destroy all enemies on the screen.
Smartbombs are limited, so use them with care!
The Scanner: Finally you can use the
scanner, which shows all enemies on the moon.
The attack waves: The enemies are attacking in waves, which are limited to each moon. If you succeed in defending the humanoids from all attack waves, you will be send to the next moon, otherwise the moon detonates and you have to reject the remaining attack waves.
Humanoids: Your mission is to protect
humanoids! They can be hit by your laser beam, they can be killed if captured
by Landers, and they can be killed if a Lander drops them too far from the
ground.
Landers: These enemies are slow and
do not fire much. But they can capture one of your Humanoids and beam it to
the top. At this point the Lander will transform the Humanoid into a
Mutant.
Mutants: Fast and deadly killers that
try to eliminate you!
Bombers: There are four different
types of bombers, especially on later attack waves. Miners are dropping a
mine from time to time, elsewere they're mostly harmless, Beamers are fireing
a dangerous wide range laser device, Twisters are equiped with a fast
recharger that enable them making turn & fire manouvers and finally there are
Pluggers which are equipped with plasma lasers and one detachable Swarmer.
Pods: These enemy ships are
coordinating the attack waves. They are slowly drifting around and mainly
harmless. But if they are hit, they divide into four deadly Swarmers!
Swarmers: Not as dangerous as
mutants, but smaller.
Baiters: Appear only in the later
part of an attack wave. They're hunting you and are shooting at your ship.
Because of they are very small and fast, it is difficult to destroy them, so
be carefull!
Carriers: These transporters carry
usefull equipment: An extra smartbomb (grey), more energy for the laser
(red), extra shield power (green), or a satellite (blue). Destroy the carrier
and capture the equipment.
Stargates: Activating a stargate will
teleport you to another location on the moon.
Features:
Star Defender is available for:
- Amiga (68020 or better): stardefender10.lha (aminet, USA) , stardefender10.lha (aminet, Germany)
If you have any questions, send me a mail:
starfox@incubus.franken.de / starfox@cow.mayn.de
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