First Play - Episode 2 - Thexder Neo (PS3) Part 1 of 2

[Orbot]

I LOVED old school Thexder! I wish there was a version for 360!

[Danark81]

I was supprised to find out they remade the game. I remembered having it on the tandy in the late 1980's. Fire hawk was also a good sequil, and I think it would be cool if they come out with a remake of it as well.

[elbryan42]

Absolutely. :)  Firehawk rocks!

[smari666]

YOU FAT FOCK!!!!!!!

why did you name it first play 

[TJae1]

hey look ma ~ it stucks ~

[BevinKB]

I had the Apple IIGS version myself and was in awe when I saw this for PS3 (and no it is not on XBLA).

Movement does NOT drain energy, only firing and using the shield does. Also, in case you didn't know, completing a level without using the shield gets you an additional 20% enmax increase and you also get 100% energy restored. In the IIGS version, using the shield ONCE forfeits the latter for the rest of the game and it's actually possible to beat the game without using it.

[elbryan42]

I knew about the going without shields thing. Also, for movement draining energy, I was mistaken, the sequel, Firehawk, which I played more, has you losing energy from movement.

This was a first play, so I was playing Thexder for the first time in over 15 years.

[FPSLink55]

Is this on Xbox Live Arcade?

[gyiyg996]

I have the original NEC PC-8801 theme song, pretty retro.

The game was also released for MS-DOS PC by Sierra On-Line I think... I had a old 3-D Pinball game that had a Thexder advertisement on the back of the jewel case, but my father never bought the game, so I never knew what Thexder was.

[elbryan42]

Yup, still have the game, box, manual,.everything (for DOS) at my parent's house. :) It was always a pain to play because even with it installed you still needed the diskette to play. Stupid copy protection.

A release of Firehawk, Silpheed (though I have the Sega CD remake) and Zeliard would be awesome. Gamearts made the best action games back in the 80s.

[gyiyg996]

Slipheed's music sounded bad ass on the NEC PC-8801, truly impressive composition seeing how the PC-8801's sound chip has only 3 Four operator FM Synthesis voices, and 3 SSG (Square wave\ white noise generation) tone voices.

Also, the best I've heard, is the PC MS-DOS version of Slipheed's title screen music, as rendered on a Roland MT-32 sound module... I seriously wish I had one of those sound modules, they make DOS games sound so damn godly...

[elbryan42]

Yeah, the Roland made my Sound Blaster Pro sound terrible. :P

[gyiyg996]

Roland was pretty pricey though... There's also the Gravis Ultrasound and Soundblaster AWE32, but Roland was still one of the best MIDI devices one could ever own for their IBM PC...