GOLDEN WING
» Platform: Commodore amiga » Developer: Coppersky » DOWNLOAD: Kikstart.eu/golden-wing-amiga » PRICE: free
The space lanes are often littered with debris, usually just asteroids drifting into traffic but sometimes there are alien invaders who don’t know their Spaceway Code as well. Enter the Golden Wing and its pilot on cleanup duty, travelling from sector to sector blasting anything getting in the way.
Although the craft is reasonably manoeuvrable to start with it can be powered up, adding shields, extra lives, a speed up which changes the control scheme to make it easier to deal with and handy smart bombs. All of these items need to be collected before the round finishes however because otherwise they’ll just disappear.
The gameplay is reminiscent of Asteroids variants like Blasteroids or Stardust : blast rocks until they’re small enough to destroy and deal with the enemies or bosses while avoiding their shots before moving on to the next, harder level.