Varth Operation Thunderstorm - arcade shoot em up - 1992

Attract mode demo. Varth: Operation Thunder Storm is an arcade game in the vertical scrolling shooter genre, published by Capcom in 1992. Varth's gameplay draws similarities with another shooter - 1942. The story of Varth follows a disaster that befalls a human colony on a planet of the same name. The entire colony is run by a 7th generation supercomputer which controls the operations of all machinery on the planet. Unfortunately for the residents of Varth, Delta-7 has been possessed by the entity "Duo", thought of as an evil spirit but actually a temporal-spatial consciousness which spontaneously arose within the supercomputer. Duo has come to the conclusion that human existence is inimical to the planet, and has therefore turned the planet's defenses against its own populace. Eighty percent of the planet is laid waste by the event, and this is only the beginning of Duo's cleansing scheme. The colonists' reliance on the supercomputer has caused them to lose the ability to take care of themselves, and thus have no means of fighting back. The only hope for the colony lies in the pilots of two planes equipped with 4th generation computers which Duo cannot control, they are controlled not by machinery, but by humans.
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Varth runs on the Capcom CPS-1 arcade hardware

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• vertical
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• shoot
• 'em
• up
• thunder
• storm
• 60fps
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[merlin196]

I've been playing this a lot lately. I never realized just how good the game is until recently. One of Capcom's best shooters I think. Superb graphics too as you would expect from a CP System game.

[narox]

@merlin196 I wish Capcom would release some of their shmups on the iPod. Cave's shmups is doing very well on iPod/iPad.

[revolucionzation]

This is pretty much Capcom's answer to Raiden. I play this a lot on my PSP. Very cool game :D

[narox]

Cool. :D

[TheRetroGamerGuy]

This is a shmup i have never seen before!

Thanks narox for introducing me to it.

Keep up the good work!

[narox]

Thanks dude. I am discovering myself as I go along. So I am in your boat. This game was recommended to me by aWanderingMerchant.

[virgoshaka9]

I used to beat this game on the arcade under 1 quarter :P. Now I can't get past lvl 13

[SamusDrake]

Tough as nails Shoot-em-up, but I loved the music and awesome bosses - especially the Bloody Hawk and Duo itself.

[swl9380]

go out and get this game on capcom classic collection vol 2 on ps2 and psp

[ColodeHurlingham]

do remember a famicom`s game? just it was about an aircraft over the sea bombering subs and ships i mean its name