Game:

OverKill (1992)

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Before being overshadowed by Major Stryker, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and Tyrian, there was this one EXCELLENT and challenging MS-DOS shmup from 1992 entitled OverKill, originally developed by Tech-Noir Productions and Ste Cork.

This game is *rather* notable for its spectactular use of EGA 16-color graphics ever on MS-DOS, and the power-up system is quite similar to Gradius where you grab Weapon Selector capsules to go through the list of weapons and upgrades, and then press the "Z" or "Tab" key to activate that highlighted item. The arrow keys are to move your ship, and the "Space" key is to fire your main weapons.

Also, OverKill offers some powerful upgrades that turn your ship from a Scout to a Fighter, and then finally to a Battle Cruiser, letting you power-up your ship even more to such AWESOME new heights!!! ^_~=b !

And not only do you have built-in shields that can sustain several hits from bullets and enemies, but just one IMPORTANT thing to keep in mind as well: the vertical bar meter on your heads-up display is your fuel gauge that drains and drains slowly as you progress through the game. Run out of fuel, and your game is *automatically* over, no matter how many lives you have left... so be extra careful and grab up the fuel supply tanks to fill 'er up again!!! ^^

Here in the first (1st) of two parts of my full no-miss demonstration, I battle my way through planets Edrax, Gallifrey, and Hoth, representing the first three levels of the game. The second part is gonna be coming up soon, so hang in there now!! ;)

In the meantime, the game's original author Ste Cork has *officially* declared this full-version game freeware on July 23, 2008, so to grab this hot classic of an MS-DOS shmup, go to this link right here:

http://www.classicdosgames.com/publisher/epic.html#Overkill

...and also, be sure to grab DOSBox as well at SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/

This will help you a lot, and I MUST thank you all ever so much for your watching of this video in pure 1280x720 HD, ladies and gentlemen!!! d=^-^=b !!

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