Star Soldier

Star Soldier is a vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Hudson Soft for the Family Computer and the MSX. The player pilots the starship "Caesar", travelling through space stations occupied by powerful supercomputers known as "Starbrains" who threaten the galactic empire. Star Soldier greatly resembles the earlier arcade game Star Force.

Mobile versions were released on January 26, 2001, in Japan as Star Soldier Special+ in 2004, Star Soldier SP Arcade in 2005 and Star Soldier Fukkoku-Ban in 2008, they're also released for Palm OS on November 2001 in Japan and iOS on January 4, 2012 in United States.

Star Soldier has spawned numerous sequels, starting with Super Star Soldier on the PC Engine. It was ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2004 in Japan as part of the Famicom Mini series, and to the Wii's Virtual Console in the Japanese and North American regions in July 2007. An enhanced remake of the game was released on PlayStation Portable only in Japan in 2005.

When Hudson was absorbed by Konami, a 3DS Virtual Console was re-released on November 14, 2012 in Japan, August 15, 2013 in PAL Version and October 24, 2013 in North America, and the iOS Version, titled Star Soldier for GREE on June 20, 2013 in Japan.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Awesome soundtrack.
 * 2) Fluent retro perspective graphics.
 * 3) While shooting anywhere in each stage, you can find the secret tiles to add extra points.
 * 4) There are more tiles to have power-ups as well as the other ones for extra points.
 * 5) There's a Caravan mode, where you can beat the game in either 2 or 5 minutes until it is over when the time is up.
 * 6) Challenging shoot 'em up gameplay.
 * 7) Challenging boss fights against both Lazarus and Star Brain (in 2 forms). For Lazarus, you will get more points if you quickly shoot the 4 parts at the center of the screen. If all parts are combined, finish shooting it while dodging enemy bullets in few seconds until it escapes. And for the Star Brain, if you wasted the time, then it escapes and the game starts from the central check point of each stage.