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-- card: 16002 from stack: in.'90AMUG News‚Ñ¢
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-- flags: 0000
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-- name:
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SkyShadow
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......................................................Mike Bromley
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ship is your reward. At 100,000 points you qualify for "Mega Mode" where the game races along at twice normal game speed and all point values are 10 times their normal value. At something like 2,000,000 points, you go to another war zone to fight.
All kinds of calamities can befall you
during the mission. You can become so
crippled from enemy hits that your
shield level falls to zero (instant death).
You can run into either the invulnerable
Mine or Screamer or you can simply dive
too low and blow up or crash just
attempting to land on you very own
landing strip! If you do well and manage
to land on your strip you are rewarded
with bonus points according to how well
you have performed and then sent on
your way to complete the mission. Each
mission is comprised of 3 fighter planes
and you get to play each to it's conclusion
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(usually, an explosive fireball - your own
ship!).
This is a well constructed arcade game
with lots of variations allowed during the
actual play. The keyboard and mouse
control the weaponry and the space
fighter. The space bar shoots off the
smart bombs, any number key drops
regular bombs and any letter key fires
the fighter's gun. For the
coordinated,these are easily manipulated
keys. At the same time, the mouse
controls the fighter as it travels through
space; whether he dives to avoid a mine
or shoot at a target or just glides up to a
first aid object to repair damage to his
weaponry. The
mouse also
controls the
landing of the