Вертикальная Сила: Космический Шутер для Virtual Boy

1995 video game

Vertical Force (バーティカルフォース, Bātikaru Fōsu) is a 1995 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published for the Virtual Boy by Hudson Soft in Japan and by Nintendo in North America. The player controls a starship, the Ragnarok, that must destroy a malfunctioning supercomputer on a human colony planet before it wipes out all of mankind. Gameplay is similar to Hudson's Star Soldier series, featuring power up items that increase the player's abilities and parallax scrolling. The player can move their ship farther into the background to avoid enemies and obstacles in the way. Development was directed by Hitoshi Okuno, with music composed by both Shōji Tomii and Minoru Endō. The team originally planned to make the game a third person rail shooter in the vein of Space Harrier, however the thought of similar games being released for the console later on instead caused it to become a vertical scrolling shooter. It was shown off at the 1995 Winter Consumer Electronics Show under the working name Shoot'Em Up!. The game received negative to mixed reviews from critics; some praised the game's 3D effects and detailed graphics, while others criticized its lack of originality and for enemy bullets being hard to see due to the console's limited color palette.

Vertical Force is a vertical scrolling shooter video game. The player controls a starship, the Ragnarok, and must destroy the malfunctioning supercomputer on the human colony planet Odin before it destroys Earth. The Ragnarok must shoot down oncoming enemy fighters and avoid their projectiles and other obstacles in stages, and can sustain multiple hits before being destroyed. It was Hudson's only other game released for the system, alongside a port of their PC Engine puzzle game Panic Bomber. The development team originally planned to make the game a third person rail shooter in the vein of Space Harrier, however the thought of similar games being released for the console later on instead caused it to become a vertical scrolling shooter. It was presented at the 1995 Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, under the working title Shoot'Em Up!. The game was directed by Hitoshi Okuno, and composed by both Shōji Tomii and Minoru Endō.