Silkworm, Amiga - Ain't Played In Ages

Silkworm is a nifty and completely unrealistic helicopter shooter. Lots of missiles fly all over the place. It's fun. I'd forgotten about this but I did actually play this one back in the day. It's good, but as usual, I'm naf at shooters.

This was a request by cavedweller2000.

"Ain't Played In Ages" is a live narrated walkthrough / let's play series of various games that I haven't played for many years. Usually I'm playing them in the video for the first time since I was a kid. That's a long time ago.

Intro music is from the classic "cracktro" by Unit A. The full version can be heard and seen here:
http://flashtro.com/page.php?id=54

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[hamidious]

Do Project X, it's still one of the best classic shooters.

[JimPlaysGames]

@hamidious looks cool. Added to the list :)

[Quimbyrbg]

I agree entirely with your 'Games that you pound you if you lose you power-ups are bullshit" statement.

I much prefer games like Raiden where a certain amount of your powerups are left behind for you to recollect, leaving you much less powerful, but still not completely useless.

[JimPlaysGames]

@Quimbyrbg yeah that seems much better. Otherwise the difficulty curve makes a sudden rise whenever you die.

[seanseanston]

Silkworm was a great game. One thing I remember is that the "duck" helicopters were easy to deal with if you had the invulnerability cloud and just flew straight into the body, since it dealt damage really quickly just by staying there. Have to play through Silkworm again some time; always preferred it to SWIV (SilkWorm In Vertical as some suggest).

[JimPlaysGames]

@seanseanston ah, good tip. Those duck helicopters are too frequent I think. Mix it up a bit.

[plasticboy81]

another great game!

was really fun with 2 players.

[JimPlaysGames]

@TheEPROM9 hehe, I'm not going to say which one I look like :P

[JimPlaysGames]

@jj655321 uh yeah Klingon ale, that's my excuse :P

[JimPlaysGames]

@Ashen83 yeah no-one wanted to be the jeep.

[Trusteft]

Well, I would watch it.

Well played, I never played past the first level, although I remember choosing the jeep more.

I first played SWIV and a year or so later I played this one. SWIV looks amazing, but this looks quite good for what it is.

[Vinniebabe]

I used to play this two player. The sequel was epic two player fun as well. It was called SWIV