The storyline starts simply, “How the Bosconian Wars started, no one knows.” I would love to, but I am feeling somewhat bitter right now because there is a slight hitch with the storyline. Here would be the part where I discuss the zaniness of the archaic storyline. So perhaps I'm not the only pilot that set out to stop the Bosconians, but I am apparently the only one who's even worth the crappy spaceship I'm flying. A few even have introductions that show the rest of your squad of pilots being destroyed at the beginning of the game. There are actually some shoot-em-ups that have gone through some pain to explain this. Shmups have always baffled me as far as sending one ship to stop an intergalactic army goes. While you're doing your best to single-handedly save Earth, the Bosconians have a slightly better tactical strategy of using a lot more than one spacefighter to keep you from achieving that goal. My goal when playing was to blast away a space station with one well placed bullet before zooming off to the next one. You can safely float about space, carefully picking off space stations, but that attracts more space fighters towards you.
Here in lies the addictive strategy of the game.
You can do this by either attacking the six gun-pods surrounding each station, or throw caution to the wind and dive straight towards the weak point Independence Day style and destroy the entire space station in one attack. The objective is to destroy all the evil space stations junking up space. The ship could fly in not just four, but eight directions! Your only weapon, a gun that fires in front and behind you simultaneously, which is actually a damn bit better than even modern shoot-em-ups can be sometimes. For one, you could move beyond the field of the screen, pretty mind blowing back in 1982. Now there are first-person shooters, third-person shooters, shmups, arcade shooters, rail shooters.Įven though Bosconian did poorly outside of Japan, it held some impressive innovations for the time. Of course, back in those days we called them shooters, until you kids usurped that moniker for your CoDs and your GoWs. Anyone that has bought a classic games compilation knows that there are a few great classics, but more often than not, many of the games are forgotten also ran titles that are tossed in to bulk up the list of games.įor filler, Bosconian is a surprisingly inventive take on the burgeoning shoot-em-up genre. Bosconian was the filler that padded out the "5 games in 1!" roster. Look past those everyday classics that sell the joystick to impulse buyers. That joystick housed five classic Namco games. For a slight cross section of those two circumstances there wasn't even a console in my life, there was a mere joystick. As a lowly teenager, I spent most of my time angsting and playing video games, but as a lowly poor person, there were times when video games were hard to come by.
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