Personally, I have been addicted to this game since my childhood.
You play as a turret placed on a tiny house in the middle of nowhere. For some obscure reason your enemies send out thousands of paratroopers in order to destroy the house. You must make sure they will fail in their mission by shooting everything that moves. Each shot costs you one point but in more advanced levels I doubt you'll survive without shooting all the time. Don't worry, in those levels the skies will be so full none of your shots will miss. ;)
There are a few types of enemies in Night Raider. I will list some of them briefly:
Planes/Choppers: These crafts travel trough the sky and drop countless paratroopers. Some planes/Choppers are slow and some are fast. If you destroy one of these crafts, the shrapnel created in the explosion will destroy anything in their way.
Paratroopers: These guys might be slow but they are devastative when they are in large numbers. When more than three paratroopers manage to reach the ground and land, they will be able to destroy your little base. If three have landed, don’t loose hope though, you still have a chance to survive. Each level consists of a few “waves” of enemy attacks and at the end of each one, there is a short break. If the three soldiers survived on the ground up to that point, you are as good as dead, but before there are many ways they can die on ground, like shrapnel from destroyed planes. If less then 3 paratroopers stay alive in the end of the level, you get a nice surprise, I won’t spoil it for you. ;)
Missiles: Be careful with these payloads of destruction! Destroy at all costs. If one hits the ground you will die immediately. If you don’t notice them soon enough there is always a whistling sound when they start falling.
The sound in this game is nice. You can choose between PC speaker and Soundblaster.
The music is soundblaster only, but that’s not a problem since all PC speaker music tends to be repetitive and somewhat annoying.