Haritama (<1Mb)
Here we have a very fast-paced vertical scrolling shooter game that’s solid and a challenge; and difficult to survive over-long in. You’ll need a very good aim, solid nerves and excellent evasive skills to get far in this one! It’s a bullet-hell type environment game.
Shoot and bomb enemies and bosses and collect power-ups for as long as you can survive.
You can change settings in the Config (main menu) for instance to give you 5 lives instead of 3, and you can toggle automatic bombing on as well. You can take about 5 or 6 shots before you lose a ship. The best tactic is to fire constantly, as you have unlimited ammo and you can drop bombs while firing, though your stock of bombs is very limited! You do have the ‘advantage’ of a wide strafing range. The game records your score and highest score achieved.
Controls: ‘Arrow’ keys = Move, ‘Z’ key = Fire, ‘X’ key = Bomb. Use the ‘Z’ key to select in-menu and to start the game. ‘Esc’ key to quit. Also supports joystick/gamepad.
It plays part screen size, full-screen in XP, Vista and Win 7. There are 5 stages and music is in midi format should you wish to change any of the music. It’s programmed in Visual Basic 6 so you may need to download VB6 run-time files HERE if you don’t have these already installed.
Haritama is a very good Japanese vertical shooter with an English menu and English in-game dialogue that plays very well and has great music and good graphics and sound. Well-recommended!
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