Shoot-‘em-ups

This perennially popular genre is wellrepresented on Antstream, and the

Amiga is no exception. Apart from the

Hewson classics already mentioned, there’s a brace of recent games to play that should excite fans of the genre. Golden Wing is a lovely take on the famous arcade game Asteroids, while Reshoot R will please fans of the horizontally-scrolling type of shooter.

Meanwhile, the vertically-scrolling

Xenon and Xenon 2: The Megablast, are both highly-rated Bitmap Brothers games, especially the latter which notched an incredible 97% score in issue 54 of ZZAP. Of a lower quality, Death Mask is an ambitious first-person shooter that doesn’t quite gel while Martech’s Hellfire Attack failed to impress the ZZAP reviewers with a score of 38% in issue 46. Thalamus’s Venom Wing (77%) and Zynaps (78%) are much worthier recipients of your time and itchy trigger finger.

Also available: Project X (Team 17), MiG-29: Soviet Fighter (Codemasters), Killing

Machine (Atlantis).