You know what the Wii needs? More scrolling shooters. So severe is the Wii's lack of shmups, in fact, that a homebrewer called nuvalo has ported the open-source version of the classic shareware shmup Tyrian to the Wii. The vertical shooter Tyrian was originally released by Epic MegaGames (back when they were best known for things like Jill of the Jungle and the Jazz Jackrabbit games) in 1995, but has since been released as a free, open project. It was recently ported to the DS as well.Okay, so there are a lot of shmups on the Wii. But this one has the important distinction of being free.
[Via DCEmu]
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4-28-2008 @ 4:25PM
Don Day said...
This game is the bomb. Where can we play this?
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4-28-2008 @ 4:28PM
Don Day said...
Anyone care to translate the instructions?
4-29-2008 @ 1:00AM
iofthestorm said...
Check the dcemu thread.
4-28-2008 @ 6:36PM
Hafk said...
There may be an abundance of shooters on the Wii, but Tyrian is awesome.
As a kid with Windows 95-98(one of those) on the family computer, we had this game, and it was my favorite computer game.
Still is one of my favorite games.
I agree with you on the shooters part, but the Wii needs non-VC shooters.
Like, maybe a Gradius where you can draw out/program your options?
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