You can read the rest of the post if you want to. But you'd rather play the game. If you don't know how to install the game, you should continue reading. Otherwise, you should just experience the sheer ecstasy of the game for yourself.
So recently, I rediscovered a game from my childhood. It's not just some game. It was probably the game that I played the most when I was little. It's even cooler that nobody else knows of or has played this game, because it was discontinued shortly after release due to lawsuits.
It's pretty much a Centipede/Millipede game where you shoot the bugs coming down while dodging all the enemies and projectiles. However, it has significantly improved graphics over the original games, although leaving the beautiful concept the same for the most part.
There are a lot of upgrades to get during the game, including a wide arsenal of weapons, increased fire rate, and wingmen to aid you in your quest. The difficulty setting can be toggled between Easy, Medium, and Hard. It's actually pretty hard to beat the game on anything except Easy without using "Continues" (which you get infinite of, only resets your score). There's even a cheat system built into the game so you can go crazy with infinite weapons and lives if you get stuck -- but bear in mind that if you beat the game after activating cheats, the name in the high-score table will always be "CHEATER!" which doesn't really look good.
If you want to see pictures, I'm sure you can Google/YouTube for them, but I guarantee that you cannot find the full version of the game anywhere on the Internet. I've searched far and wide online before realizing that my only way of reliving my childhood was to dig up the old CD-ROM from the heaps and piles in the basement.
Since this is a ridiculously old game, it only works on Windows XP and earlier. Which means that unless you are running an ancient machine, you cannot actually play the game. Never fear -- you can always install a Virtual Machine. I won't go into detail how to do that (maybe I'll make a post on it later), but I recommend using Oracle VirtualBox. Google that and you should be all set. I'm sure there are numerous tutorials on how to install it. And just in case you don't have an image of Windows XP, the Internet is indeed full of surprises. I like this website that starts with "thepi", has "ratebay" in the middle, and ends in ".se". I'll leave it up to you to figure out what that means. You can get a Windows XP image really easily from that.
Now after you download the file "Intergalactic Exterminator.iso", you are probably wondering how to use this .ISO file without a CD-ROM. Never fear -- you can use DAEMON Tools Lite to emulate a CD-ROM drive. Again, I don't really want to go into detail on how to use other people's software, so you can just Google that, too. Sorry I'm really being unhelpful.
Then, you just install the game, and enjoy! It's such a simple game, but it's so much fun, and can evoke a huge range of emotions: frustration, elation, contentment, intensity, ferocity, etc.
I think you'd be scared to hear that I have actually memorized every single level and [nearly] every single detail in the game. I know every single enemy, how many hits they take to kill, how many points they give, their movement patterns, etc. I know this game. Extremely well.
I could easily write a walkthrough for the entire game many times over, but I think that's unnecessary. You'll find out the ways to beat all the levels. If you don't you can just beat them the normal way. Most of them have little tricks that make it way easier to win.
And if you get bored of this game (for some insane reason), the demos are really cool, too. But it's too bad that they also got discontinued and I didn't get to buy them. It's so sad that eGames, Romtech, and Hamumu all nearly nonexistent now. Hasbro did a really bad thing back then, forcing them to take these great games down just because they were improvements on their old deprecated game. I think that this game had great potential. For it's time, it was a legendary arcade game for PC, but was shut down before it could reach it's golden age of glory.
Download it here (if you missed it above somehow):
