Mark Plays… Alpha Roid (アルファロイド) (MSX1, 64K)
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Lloyd Alpha (α ROID) is a great little game produced by Pony Canyon in 1986. In it you have to destroy the evil forces of the Barugosu and repair the main computer. Well that is as elaborate as the background story of this shooter is going to get.
In my little gameplay (I didn’t really know how to play this game) I didn’t go into the holes (craters) that appear on the surface. And you are supposed to do so. Fly into those and the game turns into a little fighting game where you have to hit, kick, jump around to battle against those meanies. So there’s more to this game than meets the eye. Check it out for yourself.
Here’s a little clip of a guy who actually knows how to play this game and it shows the subterranean battling of the robots
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