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Author Topic: Operation: Inner Space - and other 2D space shooters  (Read 4490 times)

Erick Doe

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Operation: Inner Space - and other 2D space shooters
« on: August 08, 2012, 07:11:51 PM »

Does anyone remember Operation: Inner Space?



I used to play this back in the day on my 486 PC. Your ship would "fly into your PC" to save the untainted files and destroy the files that had been infected by a virus. Obviously there wasn't a real virus, but during the game you would select your actual directories and have to deal with icons of actual files within the folders. That's right, your folders were the missions and the files within your objectives.



There were also other ships, belonging to different factions. You could fight them as they would also try to capture files, or help them out against each other and they would return the favour. Fun times.



You could also repair and upgrade your ship. There was space police... pretty interesting game now that I look back on it.

Here's a gameplay video


Does anyone else remember any good ol' 2D space shooters?
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Re: Operation: Inner Space - and other 2D space shooters
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2012, 07:23:32 PM »

It's not 2D exactly, but it's still fantastic and old, I think it counts in the spirit of the thread :P



I don't think it needs much introduction ;D
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Re: Operation: Inner Space - and other 2D space shooters
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2012, 11:48:39 PM »

It's not 2D exactly, but it's still fantastic and old, I think it counts in the spirit of the thread :P



I don't think it needs much introduction ;D
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