Tyrian!

felineki · Post by **felineki** » 2005-04-22 08:25pm

Does anyone else here remember this game? It's a DOS-based vertical shooter with some pretty awesome music and weapons. I used to play it all the time back in the mid-late '90s. Just earlier today I finally got the blasted old thing working under WinXP using DOSBox and D-Fend. Brings back a lot of memories.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2005-04-22 08:29pm

To heck with that... Does anyone remeber the Grandaddy to ALL Text based games out there? Hunt the Whumpus, and 'Adventure'

"You'll never get it up the stairs"

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-04-22 08:42pm

Mmm, Tyrian. I have a bit of trouble with it on this system sadly, mostly with the sound. Awesome, awesome game.

Sharpshooter · Post by **Sharpshooter** » 2005-04-22 09:35pm

Tyrian was the game that brought the concept of the fragfest to a whole new level. When you got a ship fully tricked out with a Graviton Pulsewave generator, level 9 Laser or Hyper Pulse and Sonic Cannons, Class B Shields, and duel sideshot options, everything in your sight was going to die. Cannon fodder fighters, buildings, cruisers, Easter Island statues - nothing was left standing when I had my way with a level.

And as if the game itself wasn't sweet enough, it had some of the more memorable tunes in a shooter: Gyges, Will You Help Me, Tyrian: The Level, and most memorable of all, BEER!

felineki · Post by **felineki** » 2005-04-22 10:14pm

I agree, the music was great. I still find myself humming "BEER" from time to time.

The DESTRUCT mini-game was a fun way to waste an afternoon, too... blasting away not only your opponent's forces, but the very terrain itself as well.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2005-04-22 10:40pm

Tyrian was the shit. There is still literally no finer vertical shooter on the PC.

Tzeentch · Post by **Tzeentch** » 2005-04-23 01:40am

I love me some Tyrian. I have it working in xp, but I can't get the music to play. Grr....

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2005-04-23 03:18am

I remember Tyrian, it was a fun game, but like a lot of shooters, it suffered from the "if you live long enough, you become invulnerable" syndrome (since you get more and more upgrades and so on).

Too easy. Xenon 2 was much more fun

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-04-23 04:48am

I still remember Tyrian for its awesome MIDI music (too bad my soundcard was SB 16 without wave extension at that time

). My favorite tunes is Come Back To Me Savarra (I guess it would be great if the main melody is played with a Saxophone), Asteroid Dance 1, and of course, Tunelling Trolls.

What's yours?

AniThyng · Post by **AniThyng** » 2005-04-23 05:14am

bah. i prefered Raptor.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-04-23 05:17am

Augh. My card doesn't like MIDIs. I know I liked Asteroid Dance 1, but going through the Jukebox just now I can't really tell; they're all too distorted.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-04-23 11:54am

I preferred Raptor too. Tyrian went from 'your guns struggle to kill rocks' to 'pwnzor all c0w4rd5sss' in an hour or so.

AND Tyrian doesn't work properly under XP. Although I've never tried DOSbox, now that I think about it.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-04-23 01:42pm

There was a later varient of Tyrian that runs properly under Windows and is not difficult to find.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-04-23 02:11pm

phongn wrote:There was a later varient of Tyrian that runs properly under Windows and is not difficult to find.

Tyrian 2000?

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-04-23 04:48pm

I still have Tyrian and Raptor on my computer, though I rarely play them anymore these days. Raptor never gets to the point where everything on screen is easily killed, though if you beat the game and start over at the beginning with deathrays and auto-tracking laser turrets it gets a little silly.

felineki · Post by **felineki** » 2005-04-23 04:49pm

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:I still remember Tyrian for its awesome MIDI music (too bad my soundcard was SB 16 without wave extension at that time ). My favorite tunes is Come Back To Me Savarra (I guess it would be great if the main melody is played with a Saxophone), Asteroid Dance 1, and of course, Tunelling Trolls.

What's yours?

Some of my favorites were Sarah's Song, Return Me to Savara, One Mustn't Fall, START5, and Rock Garden.

PS. Just last night I was thinking that Come Back to Me, Savara would sound great with a saxophone, too.

I dabble in digital music as a hobby (mostly MIDI, MOD/IT/S3M/XM, and I'm learning FruityLoops), and I'm thinking about doing some arrangements of Tyrian tunes eventually.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-04-23 09:11pm

Hurm. Does anyone remember the name of that top-down shooter that was made by (I think) Epic? You fly in planes over islands and shit, in an 8-way scroller with an amusing anime-revenge storyline. It had a distinctive name, but I've forgotten, and Epic doesn't seem to want to admit its old games

Cyborg Stan · Post by **Cyborg Stan** » 2005-04-24 02:31am

Zone 66.

As for Tyrian, difficulty-wise I think I can get through the game with varying degrees of ease until I try the Suicide difficulty level, at which I have trouble getting past the first few levels.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2005-04-24 03:30am

Looky what I found.

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Removed link

/Faram

Sharpshooter · Post by **Sharpshooter** » 2005-04-24 03:41am

JediNeophyte wrote:Looky what I found.

No BEER? Blasphamy!

By the way: is it just me, or does that thing lag like nothing else when viewed through CompuShit and co.?

EDIT: there's also this site: not only does it have a good dose of music, but it's also got a whole crapload of other goodies related to the game as well.

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-04-24 04:36am

felineki wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:I still remember Tyrian for its awesome MIDI music (too bad my soundcard was SB 16 without wave extension at that time ). My favorite tunes is Come Back To Me Savarra (I guess it would be great if the main melody is played with a Saxophone), Asteroid Dance 1, and of course, Tunelling Trolls.

What's yours?
Some of my favorites were Sarah's Song

Is it a new tune? Are you playing Tyrian 2000? Never own one myself but IIRC it has some new tunes.

felineki wrote:PS. Just last night I was thinking that Come Back to Me, Savara would sound great with a saxophone, too.

In fact, it would make a good "easy listening" song; in contrary to most game tunes which can only be enjoyed by either gamers or digital music afficionados.