Raptor: Call of the Shadows (1994 Classic Edition)

If you want to play this game, you have a choice between this (The original) or the 2015 version. You would think the 2015 version is automatically better, but a lot of the design choices are perplexingly terrible. This game runs in Dosbox so it isn't as smooth on modern consoles. You also don't have the option to remap the controls. This game never crashed on me, though, and the 2015 version did. This version is slightly harder because the emulation has a delay on the controls and the game itself seems to be running a little bit faster. The 2015 version has Steam achievements, but a few of them are terribly buggy and broken so they're worth skipping. Also, the saving in this version is better in the 2015 version. In this game you just have one legacy save file that you can overwrite. The 2015 version, for some odd reason, gives you unlimited saves but doesn't timestamp them or even put them in order. This means that every time I wanted to save in that game I had to go into the menu...

Great classic space arcade shooter!

Classic old-school shoot-em-up (vertical shooter) with incredibly good graphics for its age. Addictive and fun. My only complaint is that Outer Regions is a very sudden jump in difficulty compared to Tango Sector and the last few levels especially are overtuned for the Twin Laser, making them near-impossible if you were unable to purchase one due to having gone through too many Phase Shields in earlier levels.

Played this game a boy. Holds up year's later. Auto-tracking mini-gun forever, baby. Easily worth 5 USD. Seriously, there is one aspect of the design that is disappointing: the vast majority of the weapons serve no purpose. You pick them up from a weapons cache, use them for a level or two, and then sell them so you can get closer to the auto-laser and twin-laser -- the only two equippable weapons you need to defeat the game. For the record, I've beat it on Elite.

I respect this game as art, not as a game. Play the 2015 edition instead if you want a good, polished game.