Gyruss

9080. Rarity 4 Scarce+. North America NTSC. 1 player or 2 players alternating.
Much like vertical-shooter or side-shooter tube shooter, except its done on a circle. This is a forced-3D perspective game that could be called a tube-shooter. The waves of enemies come from the center of the screen and fly at the player bound to the outer rim of an invisible tube. There are powerups too, like double lasers. This version does include Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor soundtrack.
The different ports of Gyruss offer fascinating information about Pluto as seen at the time by the programmers of the different releases. In this version, you start at Pluto and head to Earth, unlike the arcade version.

(Zerothis) - # 2007-06-30 01:01:48

display: raster

port of
Gyruss (Arcade)

version of
Gyruss (Atari 2600)
Gyruss (NES)
Gyruss (Atari 400/800)
Gyruss (ColecoVision)
Gyruss (C64)
Gyruss (Famicom Disk System)