Aldynes
オルディネス1991Aldynes
オルディネスA seven-stage horizontal shooter built for the SuperGrafx.
Aldynes is a horizontal shooter for the SuperGrafx, and it never left Japan. It came out in February 1991, and it is one of the few games made only for that system.
| RELEASED IN JAPAN | 22 February 1991 |
|---|---|
| PUBLISHER | Hudson Soft |
| FORMAT | SuperGrafx HuCard, Japan only |
| STAGES | Seven |
| LATER RELEASE | PlayStation Network, 16 February 2011 |
You fly the SDE-201 Aldynes through seven stages, and enemies drop items as you go. Some items strengthen your ship with speed-ups and power-ups. Another item changes your main shot. Up to four option pods, called shuttles, can join you, and they block enemy shots.
Your weapons include a forward laser, a spread shot and a diagonal laser. The diagonal laser can become a tracking loop shot that follows its targets. The ship can also raise a forward shield to protect itself from incoming fire.
The game is set in 2020, when an alien planetoid attacks Earth. A pilot named Fox-A dies during the first fighter's failed mission. His girlfriend, Hiroko, finds the Aldynes ship in the Pandora Project. She steals it and goes into battle for revenge against the aliens.
The programmer, Toshiyuki Suzuki, called the game a side story to R-Type. It is unclear whether that was the original plan for the game.
Japanese magazines gave the game mixed to positive scores when it came out. A 1993 PC Engine Fan reader poll gave it 19.56 out of 30. A PlayStation Network release followed in 2011, and one fan review says the levels feel bland and the variety is limited.
Aldynes is one of the few games that used SuperGrafx hardware, and it shows what that system could do in 1991. One guide says it makes the most of the SuperGrafx drawing power.
- Its full title adds The Mission Code for Rage Crisis.
- The heroine is Hiroko A. Fox, and her pilot is Fox-A.
- The shuttles can run in manual, auto or rolling mode.
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