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All the fun of insane arcade shooters, all the beauty of Boccioni. by CrackerBarrel 02/02/2003, 8:36pm PST
Someone linked over to this on SA so here it is for those who don't have an account or haven't waded up to that point yet. Basically this game takes the projectile patterns of famous (mostly Japanese) scrolling shooters and depicts both you and your opponents as simple geometrical shapes. Distilling the game (or games) down like this not only reveals the ingenuity put behind the gameplay but shows us that this chaos can be quite beautiful.

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If you're wondering, I'm the little red square with the orbiting green sticks at the bottom right. The hitbox is, apparently, not the sqaure itself, but one pixel at the center of the square. While this can make it a little too easy at times to avoid fire, I'll tell you that that shot was taken during a lull in the action. You can play this game level by level, each level a scripted event with an end boss or you can play extreme mode (which itself has four levels of difficulty). The extreme modes just throw random bullet patterns and random guys at you and it really lives up to its name.
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All the fun of insane arcade shooters, all the beauty of Boccioni. by CrackerBarrel 02/02/2003, 8:36pm PST NEW
    One more screen. by CrackerBarrel 02/02/2003, 11:34pm PST NEW
    Neat. by ydrt 02/02/2003, 11:41pm PST NEW
    Re: All the fun of insane arcade shooters, all the beauty of Boccioni. by CrackerBarrel 02/03/2003, 3:55pm PST NEW
        Re: All the fun of insane arcade shooters, all the beauty of Boccioni. by curst 02/04/2003, 9:30am PST NEW
            Re: All the fun of insane arcade shooters, all the beauty of Boccioni. by CrackerBarrel 02/04/2003, 2:22pm PST NEW
            Re: All the fun of insane arcade shooters, all the beauty of Boccioni. by FABIO 02/05/2003, 11:23pm PST NEW
    I prefer the applet version by Mischief Maker 02/05/2003, 11:21am PST NEW
        is there one where I don't have to move the mouse either? -NT NT by FABIO 02/05/2003, 3:55pm PST NEW
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        Re: I prefer the applet version by mark 02/05/2003, 4:55pm PST NEW
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