Galaxian3: Project Dragoon (1990)
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Science fiction
Story:Galaxian3: Project Dragoon is a 3D rail shooter video game developed and published by Namco. It was originally a theme park attraction designed for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition (Expo '90) in Japan, and was later released as an arcade game in 1992. The game involves players controlling a starship named the Dragoon in its mission to destroy Cannon Seed, a superweapon set to destroy what is left of the human race.Show more
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In the early 90:s I was a 15 year old Swede who visited the arcade hall in Trocadero in London. At this time, multi store arcade halls with just arcades were de facto forbidden in Sweden. One particularily impressive game here was the Theater 6 version of Galaxian 3. I stood there and gazed at the glorious graphics and watched the short game over and over again.
Sadly, the home version was made for Playstation 1 with all its limitations and it just can't handle the arcade graphics, and even the PS1 version is hard to get hold of digitally, because it is not on PSN. I hope that somebody ports the arcade version to PC so I can relive the wonder of this short but wonderful rails shooter.
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The Houses: Each shipboard colony that left Earth carried some memory of its origins in its name. The Liberty carried Americans, The Bretonia flew from The United Kingdom and surrounding territory, The Kusari from Asia, and the Rheinland launched with Germanic cargo.
As each ship settled and colonies began to expand, they knew little about each other and their advancing development. Finally, little by little, the individual colonies found each other and began to set up trade routes to link their systems for commerce and solidarity.
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