![]() Easily spotted by its bright yellow color, the Spy Ship appears from a random corner of the screen, and will glide around the player at a distance before vanishing off screen. A Condition Yellow means that things are looking a bit dangerous, and is the usual condition for a majority of the game.īefore I get into specifics about Condition Red, I should also mention the importance of one of Bosconian’s most vicious foes: the dreaded Spy Ship. Having a Condition Green means that everything is relatively lax, and there’s not much action afoot. You might also notice that on the right side of the screen, there’s a section reading your ship’s “condition”. By being reckless, it can be easy to not see where they’re coming from and run right into them, but with quick handiwork, they can all be blasted for a nifty point bonus provided none have left the screen. Sometimes, the game alerts you to go into 'battle stations’, which means a select base star has sent out a fleet of five enemy ships in a certain formation that will hone in on your location. Conversely, if you go about the ever-cool “Star Method”, if you line up your shot just right, you can shoot between the bottom or top two cannons to shoot directly at the core of the base star, which blows it up immediately. Once all six are destroyed, the entire base star blows up. Regularly, you would shoot work your way around each base star and shoot out all of its cannons. To defeat the base stars, you have two options: the standard way, or the patented “Star Method”. The base stars have six circular cannons which can open fire should you get too close, though its projectiles are relatively easy to avoid should they not be too clustered. Blast all the base stars and you’re off to the next parsec! It’s no easy task, however, as the entire time you’re being chased by oncoming fleets of enemy ships on top of steering clear of asteroids and Cosmo Mines, which can be destroyed for additional points.Įach level of Bosconian gives you a set number of base stars to vanquish, whose destinations are conveniently identified on a map on the right side of the screen (A blinking red dot signifying where you’re at). So, for my birthday and just in time for Bosconian’s 40th anniversary.īosconian puts you as the player in the esteemed Starfighter, a spacecraft which has but one goal: to seek and destroy the base stars (Also known as 'Orbitals’), which are large, green enemy bases. Unfortunately, Bosconian isn’t all that well-known of a title, especially when pitted against some of Namco’s other smash hits, such as Pac-Man and Dig Dug. ![]() I’ve mentioned this briefly once before in the answer to an ask that had been sent in, but there’s a very good reason that my blog name is ‘StarDestroyer81'- it’s a combination of the subtitle and release year to one of my all-time favorite arcade games, Bosconian! Instead of settling for a three word post (I still can’t get over how short that post is.), a few months ago I had an idea of what I could talk about when 12/12 rolled around. This year, however, I wanted to try a little something different. It wasn’t anything special, and the only reason I had uploaded it at all was because I was proud to share that the twelfth of December is a date I look forward to all year. One year ago today, I made what may just be my absolute shortest post announcing to the few followers that I had at the time that it was my birthday. Hello everyone! It’s December 12th, and today just so happens to be a very special day… it’s my birthday! □
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