Back in ‘99 I was hooked on the mindless blast’em’up simplicity of the Bitmap brothers‘ Xenon 2. This was one of the first PC games to exploit the 256 colour mode of the IBM VGA, however like all games of that era it does not support anything more than the standard PC Beeper.
Xenon 2 is a traditional Japanise style vertical scrolling 2d shooter. The object of the game is to navigate from to to bottom through six levels of natural history, obliterating the delicate life-forms and collecting awesome powerups. Winning the game requires three things:
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