.Played By PiE. - "July 10th, 2023".
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.INFO.
.Vanguard is a scrolling space shooter (some levels are horizontal, some are diagonal, and some are vertical). Shoot down enemies with your laser. Keep a close eye on your ever decreasing fuel gauge, luckily each enemy that you destroy will add to your remaining fuel. Find the energy pods to be temporarily invulnerable; the energy pods will also increase your fuel level. At the end of each level you must defeat a boss that is guarded by two moving force fields with holes in them. The computer will announce the name of the each zone using some nifty early 80's synthesized speech.
The different levels include Mountain Zone, Rainbow Zone, Styx Zone, Rainbow Zone 2, Stripe Zone, Rainbow Zone 3, Bleak Zone, and the City of Mystery.
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.TRIVIA.
Vanguard was released in July 1981 in Japan and put SNK on the map in North America.
Vanguard is the first color game from SNK and it was one of the first shoot-em-ups with an 8-way directional fire.
The starting music is inspired by the 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' soundtrack (release date is 1979), and later became the theme song to the 1987-1994 television series 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'.
The music that plays when you get the power-up is 'Vultan's Theme: Attack of the Hawk Men' from the 'Flash Gordon' soundtrack.
A Vanguard unit appears in the 1982 movie 'Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again'.
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00:00 - Intro
00:12 - Round 1
05:29 - Round 2
09:31 - Round 3
14:05 - Round 4
17:49 - Round 5
22:12 - Round 6
26:55 - Round 7
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