Star SoldierNES

The first of the star soldier series, looks... hard. Lol

I had this game... I loved it. It was hard but it was fun. However, it's nothing near the awesomeness that is the tg16 star soldier games (which were absolutely stellar). I remember buying it for $15 back in the day for the nes so I don't know how good a deal it would be buy it for 500 points...

Still, it's a fun game and it is great to see the origins of this amazing series. Still, the top down shmups weren't that great until the 16 bit era (salamander/life force excepted)...

If you want a solid top down view shmup, wait for Life Force/Salamander. Now that game was one of the best for the nes...

its good but no way near better than axelay.

It is indeed a good game, the timing of it's release was just way off, with all it's superior sequels already being out (okay, Final Soldier isn't out outside of Japan, but that's the only place it was released anyway).

I agree that Life Force is far superior, but Star Soldier is still solid, and does not deserve such a low score.

You think that Star Soldier was tough, take a shot at manuevering through all sixteen stages of Xevious for the NES. That's what I call "pain".

Ah, once again, a game whose sales were massively depleted due to bad timing; tisk, tisk. Still, it is good enough.

hmm,

this game isn't that bad. it's just that there's better similar games around. 2 stars might be a little harsh but it is pretty much an atari/c64 style game with not that much to it (and it is fairly tough. as a kid it took me years to get anywhere in this game. still, i played it over and over and over...)

another cool thing about this one was the ability to duck under the action. too bad that wasn't around in life force

The game had some good features but the execution wasn't the best.

Man the VC is so saturated with this style of game. If I was a publisher and I had a whack of shooter left to release I would be bummed out.

GameGod who knows. There might be a chance of it coming to europe if it was released for the NES here.

Maybe we'll get it in some kind of American hanabi together with SMRPG and Earthbound?

I think this game, along with Mega Man of course, is a good contender to the "Worst NES boxart" award. lol.

Very hard and just not very good level designs. The firepower could have used some work as well. Mediocre start to a fantastic shooter series.

Yeah, I just did not like this game.

apparently, part of the reason it was so popular in its day (yup, it actually was popular in japan... they'd play it a gaming tournaments in japan and stuff) was prob because many of its contemporaries (with a few extremely notable exceptions) weren't the best. a year or two later tho, shmups truly became a force to be reckoned with thanks to companies like konami, compile, irem and hudson...

This should have been released as a 3D classic Instead of VC. Would have looked awesome

Can't wait to get it!