Разработчик: 3D Realms
Описание
Features
Rocket-Powered Processing: EGA high-speed animated graphics (VGA compatible) and awesome cinematic sequences.
Bounty Hunter: Bonuses and secrets to discover.
Save Your Game: Save and restore up to 10 games.
Controller Support: Partial Xbox 360 Controller support.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8
- Processor: Intel Core Due 2
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
Mac
- OS: OSX 10.10.3 or later
- Processor: Intel Core Duo 2
Отзывы пользователей
Fun, feels like a predecessor to Raptor: Call of the Shadows, but with clunkier controls.
BTW: This was made Freeware in 2006. Buy it if you want to compensate 3D Realms. Otherwise go download it and give it a try. :)
spent hours upon hours playing the freeware version on my 486 back in my youth, good to see it runs just as it did 30 years later.
0.4 hours on Steam, countless hours in the 90s when I was a kid on our old PC. The game's shareware (demo, for all you younger gamers) game in a collection of games that included the entirely of the first alien planet. I remember as a kid anxiously waiting for the full version to arrive in the mail after my dad ordered it on 2 floppy disks XD. Seeing it on Steam, I had to have it. This game is just as fun as I remember; running up your burst rating as high as possible to fill the screen with laser blasts, blowing the enemy away with Zap Bombs, chewing your way through every base, zone, and boss, and groaning at the absolute cheese of flirty pick-up lines the fleet admiral levels at you after every level. The game is a fantastic stroll down memory lane. If you want to play a good, solid retro shooter, this is more than worth the $3 it's priced at.
If you enjoyed Major Stryker 30 years ago, you may still enjoy it now. When you launch this, you can actually see it start up DosBox for emulation. There's nothing new, including native Windows support. It is exactly the same as all of the versions that have been available for the last 20 years.
man i loved this game as a kid still so good i use to think the guy on the loading screen looked old now he just looks like me.
If you're reading this review, you probably already know about the game. I bought it because I had the shareware version (with the first planet only) as a kid and I'm here to finish kicking Kreton behind.
An early DOS Game. Sure, I have nostalgia for this game, but It i still good. Some what of an easy shoot em' up. Too small of a screen for it to be a bullet hell. Xevious vibe, pixel goodness.
pretty fun game is fun and fair at last for me plus major stryker is a badass
The hardest game of Space Invader I've ever played.
5/10
I played the shareware version of this back in an antedeluvian age and loved it. I'm not sure it's worth the $3 asking price but when it went on sale I snapped it up. It is old school. The difficulty is unforgiving, and there are no quality of life things that would come to be standard later. For instance you don't have 'health' or 'shields' exactly. The most hit points you can have are three, and you have to earn those by picking up upgraded firepower and items that are only dropped by mini-bosses at most three times per map. If you aren't 100% ON all the time, you will get wrecked. Weapon upgrades come pretty regularly, but if you get hit once you lose all of the ones you have accumulated, and if you are hit again when you have the basic weapon- you die. You die and you lose any additional bonuses that you have accrued during that life.
The enemies are basic and predictable, but eventually you end up in this bullet hell mode where there is a lot going on at once on screen and the graphic design at some point actively impedes tracking- like enemy shots flashing and having almost exactly the same color pallette as some of the backgrounds.
It's a wonderful game, though. A real throwback. It's real short, and it's great, it's unforgiving and repetitive.
Note:
- This can be legally downloaded for free (or played in a web browser) thanks to it being made Freeware in 2006. If you buy this, it's for the enjoyment of officially having it in your Steam library or to support the dev.
- You'll likely want to fix the aspect ratio by going into the Major Stryker folder and editing STRYKER.conf by setting "aspect=true" in the render section. It's passable in 16:9 but intended to be played in 4:3.
Even for its time, Major Styker was a fairly back-to-basics shoot 'em up. There's not a lot of bells & whistles to its gameplay but it does the fundamentals well and backs them up with the pleasant, popping palette & visuals and solid soundtrack common to Apogee's particular flavour in the min-90s. The overall presentation carries a lot of weight in this title to the point that, almost 30 years later, I can hear the theme song in my head as soon as I see an image of the title screen. The best way I could describe the initial feel of the game is that it's got a punchy vibe for a shoot 'em up. The difficulty options allow this to be either a fairly chill experience on Beginner or a grueling challenge on Hard.
It's a classic, but it's not perfect. The levels can sometimes drag on (likely made longer to ensure difficulty was maintained despite the game's between-level save feature). The first few bosses of each world are also slightly redundant to the point that anyone who got the (very generous @ 33% of the entire game) shareware demo back in the day pretty much got the full experience. Lastly, the controls can be a bit clunky with the speed power-up active to the point I almost always avoid it.
The asking price on this is steep, especially considering it's Freeware to begin with. That said, I do recommend checking out the Freeware link above if only to see the game for a few minutes or considering grabbing it on sale if you're a fan of the title from when you were a kid.
Nice old Shump!
Awesome trip down memory lane! Amazing scrolling shootem up!
If you're looking for a smooth, good old side-scroller shoot-em-up, then this gem from the 90s will please you well. Major Stryker will give you a blast from the past (early-90s MS-DOS and bulky CRT monitor era, to be precise).
Hop into the cockpit and blast those kreton invaders for good. Gung Ho!
It's a quite addictive, entertaining and challenging - yet cheap - game, that can keep you glued to the keybard.
P.S.: Can you beat the mothership? ]:-D
Classic top-down scroller space shooter sim. It's not aged that great graphically but it still plays as good as it did back on the DOS systems like I remember when I was a kid. One of the pros of this retrofitted version is that you don't have to try and find out your soundcard to make the game sound work the right way through a obscure DOS setup... I mean they could've left that part in for the real nostalgic of us.
6/10 for entertainment value if you really really have nothing better to do.
It's an MS-DOS classic. EGA Graphics, Adlib music, Soundblaster sound effects. All the classic look and sound of the era. Also relatively short, as is typical for games of the time. An episode can be finished in around an hour if you don't get killed too often.
Apogee did the right thing by releasing it using DOSBox, though I can't say the same for the fact they took the approach of stretching the picture rather than presenting in its native aspect ratio. Fortunately, it's something that can easily be fixed with a simple edit of a config file.
Still, if you like vertical-scrolling shooters, it's worth playing and isn't too hard. I played through episode 2 on Easy difficulty with keyboard-only input before writing this review and had 32 lives by the time I got to the end-of-episode boss (and lost three over the course of the fight).
Major Stryker is an extremely mediocre shoot them up arcade game. In 80s games like 1943: the Battle of Midway and Tiger Heli did it a lot better than this at 90s. Do not buy this one if you don't search nostalgic way back to childhood days when you played this one.
Your ship's hitbox is massive, larger than the ship itself. This game didn't age well in the slightest. Slow, clunky, unnecessarily difficult, no fun.
If you are a space shooter looking for a challenge, look no further. This game is well put together. My only complaints deal with the confusing EGA color palette. Sometimes the foreground and the background colors blend together and makes things confusing.
It's a very fun MS-DOS Classic game to play since I was Child.
As for the Storyline, it's painlessly simple: Earth Survives WW3 with most of humanity dead & plauged by a lack of Resources. Then an Alien Race known as the Kretons jump to Earth using a Wormhold and plans to conquer it as if things weren't bad enough. So the call goes out to Major Harrison Stryker, a hero of the Recent World War who takes a Special Attack Starship into the Wormhole to destroy the Kreton Homeworlds on the other side. The Problem is that the Kretons have also taken Human Hostages and you need to free them by ramming into their Holding Cells using your ship since they're immune to Weapon Fire.
With a Total of 24 Levels: 12 Stages & 12 Boss Battles, you'll be blasting the Kretons to Atoms again and again. There's 4 Sectors for each Episode that contains 2 Levels in each Sector & a boss battle for each one:
The Lava Planet contains: The Orbital Station, Water Sector, Land Sector & Lava Sector
The Arctic Planet contains: The Arctic Sector, Land Sector, City Sector & Lava Sector
The Desert Planet contains: The Orbital Station, Desert Sector, Lava Sector & Tech Sector
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | 3D Realms |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 86% положительных (22) |