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Played by: Kuukunen

Self Destruct is a fun little shmup by Terry Cavanagh, who is known for games like Super Hexagon and VVVVVV.
It's a freeware game, so feel free to go try it yourself: http://distractionware.com/blog/2008/06/this-game-will-self-destruct-in-10-minutes/

I show the instructions in the beginning, but the basic idea is that you have shield energy and weapon energy. You lose shield energy either by getting hit or by using your absorption shield, and if it runs out, you die. You can gain some shield from S pickups or fill it with B pickup. Weapon energy is gotten by either absorbing blue enemy bullets when having shield up or by getting F or B pickups.

So the game becomes a balancing act, you have to simultaneously dodge red bullets, absorb blue bullets, make sure you have shield on when hitting bullets and off when not, shoot enemies, conserve your weapon energy, and try to pick up powerups.

I'm going for score in this run, and you get extra score for Nukes you don't use, so I'm not using any. But if you're interested, they just flash the screen with white and destroy all enemies and bullets.

In the end I let the whole menu music play, as it's by the legendary chiptune artist Dubmood.

The game is otherwise very well made, but one annoying thing is that at some point when you can beat it without using any Nukes and gathering pretty much all possible pickups, getting a high score is very random, so I had to do multiple tries to get a high enough score I thought was OK for video. -
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