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Hey, what's up guys? My name's Dafe, aka Flaose, and this is a GOGgame Story.
Ah, Raptor, my old friend.
When I was growing up, my parents refused to buy me video games or consoles.
In hindsight it was probably a good decision
but for me, a boy with nearly no income, it meant no Mario,
no Sonic the Hedgehog, and no expensive commercial games.
Luckily, we had a decent computer so I fed my gaming addiction with shareware.
My favorite publisher of shareware games was Apogee Software, and one of my favorite
Apogee games, a game developed by Mountain King Studios,
was Raptor: Call of the Shadows
The premise of Raptor is extremely simple,
You're a mercenary with an F-22, and you'll kill for the Mega-Corporation
that's willing to pay you the most.
You begin each mission in the hangar bay.
Here you can save, and outfit your plane with the latest tools of *** and mayhem.
Once you're ready, jump into your plane and choose the Sector you wish to attack.
The areas get progressively harder, so it's usually best just to hit Auto-Pilot
and work your way from Bravo Sector to the Outer Regions.
Of course, all of this is nearly superfluous.
Raptor is a Shoot 'em up. You fly around and kill things, and as far as shmups go it's fairly simple:
enemies come in from the top or sides, and you destroy them.
Your Mega-Corp pays you for each kill, as well as for any collateral damage that you cause on
vehicles and structures below.
You use that money to upgrade your weaponry and, if you want, your defensive capabilities.
But really, in Raptor the best defense is a good offence, so I rarely waste my
money on anything but the best weapons...
and oh what weapons can you choose from.
There are air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, dumb-fire missiles,
the completely useless bomb, the wicked megabomb,
auto-tracking turrets, lasers, all sorts of good stuff that can be picked up in-mission or
bought from the store.
The graphics are beautiful. I've always had a soft spot for 256 colors,
but Raptor elevates these pixels to art.
The current version of the game includes a so-called "High-Quality Filter" but
honestly it just makes the graphics look muddled and worse.
The music, too, is excellent,
and the whole soundtrack is included as a bonus when you buy it on GOG.com.
So what are you waiting for? You like nostalgia, right? You like blowing stuff up, right?
Then head over to GOG.com and pick up your copy!