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Volguard

Volguard is a traditional shoot-'em-up. You fly a plane over a parallax-scrolling landscape, filled with enemy installations which you must bomb. An easy task, if it weren't for the enemy attack waves. Most…

1 July 1984

Volguard is a shooter developed by dB-SOFT Inc., released 1 July 1984 on FM-7, MSX, NEC PC-6000 Series and PC-8800 Series.

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What Volguard is

Volguard is a shooter game developed by dB-SOFT Inc. and released in 1984. It was published by Casio. It is available on FM-7, MSX, NEC PC-6000 Series, PC-8800 Series, Sharp MZ-2200 and Sharp X1.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Volguard is a traditional shoot-'em-up. You fly a plane over a parallax-scrolling landscape, filled with enemy installations which you must bomb. An easy task, if it weren't for the enemy attack waves. Most waves consist of planes flying in a straight line across the screen, without even shooting at you. Others bounce across the screen, and some are more dangerous, as they are flying in intricate patterns and firing multiple shot. Of course, you can fire back, but keep that at a minimum. The power bar at the bottom of the screen is depleted by your cannon, and when it has reached zero, your firing rate is very low. After a while, a route comrade will join you as a kind of power-up. When a…
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How it plays

Its themes are science fiction.

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When did Volguard come out?
Volguard was released on 1 July 1984 for FM-7, MSX, NEC PC-6000 Series, PC-8800 Series, Sharp MZ-2200 and Sharp X1.

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