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[The Fifth Horseman]

There is no ideal weapon, altough Lasers come fairly close.

[Cengco]

Sorry to all Raptor-fans but I think that the levels, graphics and effects are not varied enough.
My favorites are STARGUNNER (a little like Katakis or R-Type) and Tyrian 2000. Sometimes I play the nostalgic shooters Xenon 2 (converted from Amiga-game) and Overkill (like old C64 shooters).

I must question, what are those wierd symbols under the episode selection screen aaside a light and dark blue switch?

[Wicky]

This game is kewl, but I remember DawnRaider was bit better. It had a cool super-beam weapon that required you to press and and hold a button for some 30 seconds before it fully charged up. And you could play coop with a friend sharing 1 keyboard. DR didn't have many weapons, only 1 that could be upgraded like 30 times until it reached it's full potential.

[Abandoned Witch]

Just loved that game and its Demonstar sequel. The game is not really that hard, since I got the MKS version.

[Dinic]

This is one of the best shoot 'em ups on PC.
I remember that on some special date (don't know which), the sound of apogee is changed, propably some easteregg.
I now have this game on iphone and it's cool, there's also windows version!

[Scatty]

It's the 16th of May, there're also some easter-egg extras. See here.

[The Fifth Horseman]

I don't really know, altough once after fooling around with them it seemed like the game played slightly... different?

I'm sure I remember some extra enemies appearing where none normally were on that difficulty...

[Treewyrm]

Yup... DOS, Windows and even Linux versions LOL, I have em all and proud of it. Awesome shmup, there is only one that is better: Tyrian. But Tyrian is almost impossible to surpass I bet. :-)

the_fifth_horseman, I remember those things were used to access some easter eggs, the game is full of em. Also some combinations do really modify gameplay a bit, although I don't remember which ones do what anymore, I used to play it long ago. Perhaps a good time to replay it again.

Also I would suggest to try Demonstar SM1/SM2, made by the same people behind Raptor, essentially it's a superb clone of Raiden. Unfortunately it doesn't have shop and other distinguishable features seen in Raptor and Tyrian. On the other hand network coop is extremely fun. :-)

[Tax-5]

I loved to play Raptor since i was young and beautiful.
In earlier Times i just played the Shareware Version but someday i found the Full Version (it was on a Game CD or something.. i dont Remember)

Now i completed almost the whole Game but the Final Wave at the End is Impossible... even with full Shields, Mega Bombs and lot of Training im finish after the 1st Boss..

But its one of my favourite Games ever... i will make a Remix of a Level Song... think its Level 7 or something..