Game of the Month: May 2019 Blazing Lazers/Gunhed

[geise]

Blazing Lazers / Gunhed

Going to start the Game of the Month again. A tad late but starting this month is Blazing Lazers/Gunhed. I have always loved this game and is one of the first that I played for the Turbo. It's a fantastic shooter that still holds up. Lets get this going and post some high scores!

[majors]

I also enjoy some BL. I've heard it gets a bad rap for being too long or dull but back in the 90's we WANTED long games since we just dropped $50 of our paper route or allowance moneys on it. Opening song is epic...I remember using the sound test cheat just to listen to it uninterrupted.

[geise]

I love the music to this game so much.

[Necromancer]

I played some today.  Tis a great shewty with so much stuff going on on-screen, sweet tunes, and good ramp up in difficulty.  I also like the variety of weapons, though the power ups come so often it's too easy to pick up the wrong ones.

[Dicer]

The game that got me into the Turbo...we had a toy store chain back home called Child World, and I was in there and heard sound coming from a Kiosk, it was the Turbo playing Blazing Lasers, and it SPOKE when the ship grabbed a power-up...mind you back in my young mind it sounded CRYSTAL clear. That instant I knew I had to have that machine and that game.

Thank you Child World, you were an awesome store.

[majors]

I played some today. 

I did too, well back on Sunday evening. Had a good run going but had a phone call from an out of town friend that threw off my game(well, the game froze while I was talking). I lost my groove after resetting but still had some fun playing..

I also like the variety of weapons

Guess we need to shout out or fav power up combinations. I'm a team III(steel thunder) and homing.

[geise]

At least you had fun playing!  I will get back into doing a high score run this weekend. I have work from home tomorrow, but I have so much shit to do I won't be able to fuck off at all.

[Necromancer]

Guess we need to shout out or fav power up combinations. I'm a team III(steel thunder) and homing.

I like shields and field thunder (not steel, you deaf old fart!). Tear that shit up!

[geise]

I use homing and Lazers, baby!

[MNKyDeth]

Just got done playing a bit. Didn't make it far at all. I was mostly playing around with the power UPS on the first two levels over and over.

But for level one the 1 icon and the multi-body with as many pink/purple balls as possible. Boss dies in two seconds. Second level seems easyish with this setup. I just need to get my dodging skills, sight of sight peripheral vision working again and hone those frogger skills.

It's been a while since I did some shewties.

[majors]

   Guess a good thread to remind folks of the GunhedFX1 hack:
https://www.pcenginefans.com/forum/index.php?topic=20918.0

   I found it fun to have a little change of pace with it's customizations. Make's it more of a high score or caravan style game for a quick play.

[geise]

I totally missed that hack. That's pretty neato.