Vanguard (1981 SNK)

A side-scrolling shooting game.

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 then announce the name of the next 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.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• arcade game
• enemies
• fuel gauge
• energy pods
• invincible
• boss
• force fields
• holes
• mountain zone
• rainbow zone
• styx zone
• stripe zone
• bleak
• city of mystery level
• snk
• 1981

[nickantibarney]

@dharmaseed the startreck films also used that song. and the first predates this game by a year.

[dharmaseed]

@nickantibarney I think you may have it the other way around. This came out in 1981, six years before TNG.

[1200com]

only played it on atari 2600 and today I just found out from watching this, where Gradius and Life Force's idea came from!

[nickantibarney]

the game start music is from star treck TNG.

[GRIMSREVENGE253]

I use to play the hell out of this wack A*S game back in the days.,.....GRIM

[CobaltZeroni]

i remember sucking at this back in the day. =|

[kidd912thomas]

Sounds like Flash Gordon

[balsaboy55]

thought you had 4 way fire on this one?????

[culpit]

I loved playing Vanguard in the arcades back in the 80's. But I really didn't like the Gond's scary laughter at the end though. But I love the funky music whenever you got energized.