The "Star Destroyer" part of the title appears exclusively on the game's title screen. The game's complete title is "Star Destroyer Bosconian". TECHNICAL Main CPU: Zilog Z80 (x3), MB88xx Sound Chips: Namco 3-channel WSG, custom DAC (for speech), discrete circuitry (for the shot and explosions sounds) Players: 2 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 1 (FIRE) TRIVIA Bosconian was released in November 1981 in Japan. A radar map to the right of the play area shows the position of the player ship relative to any remaining enemy space stations. RED: The enemy are aware of the player and will attack aggressively and at speed.Īlthough there is no in-game power-up available, the player's ship fires from both the front and rear simultaneously.YELLOW: A small number of enemies are present.The spy ships can be identified by their yellow and green coloring. A spy ship will often appear and if this is not destroyed quickly, the enemy alert level will change to red, and the alien ships will attack the player with much greater aggression and speed. Destroying the leader of a formation causes all remaining enemies to disperse but destroying all enemies in a formation scores extra bonus points. The space stations will also occasionally launch squadrons of ships that attack in formation. Players must also avoid or destroy asteroids, mines, enemy missiles and fighter ships. All enemy stations must be destroyed to progress to the next round. In later rounds, the core is more heavily defended, with both a rotating shield and missiles. The core can only be reached by precisely firing through a single, narrow channel that leads directly to it. To destroy a station, the player must either destroy all six cannons or shoot the core. Each station consists of six cannons arranged in a hexagon, surrounding a central core. Bosconian is a multi-directional shoot-em-up set in space, in which the player pilots a small craft called the 'Star Fighter' and must destroy waves of green space stations that form part of a huge enemy fleet. Enemy Bases, which are needed to be destroyed to finish the stage.NOTICE: These are informations from parent game bosco - Bosconian - Star Destroyer (new version)Arcade Video game published 41 years ago: Star Destroyer Bosconian © 1981 Namco.Cosmo-Mines, which explode after shot, but can destroy the ship.Asteroids, which are non-moving objects and debris.Spy Ships, which are sent out to see if it's the right time to attack.E-Type Enemies, that are the fastest and shot from core enemy bases.P-Types Enemies, that do not try to get you and sometimes rams you in the back of the Star Fighter.I-Type Enemies, that are enemies that try to get you and come out in a formation attack, with orange ones as the boss and pink ones as followers.Star Fighter, the fighter you control while shooting enemies.In the old version, it stops at level 256, while the new one does not.In the 50th Anniversary, Pac-Man's Arcade Party, and a new revision of the game, after completing around without dying, you get bonus points.The old version had to wait a moment to shoot again. The new version allows the player to shoot without stopping while pressing the fire button unless they release the button.Maps are changed and different in both versions.The differences between the old version and the new one are: If first played, you get a high score of 20,000 points. Spy ships are sent out to check if the coast is clear, and the player must shoot it, or else a RED ALERT! will appear, sending enemies really fast to the ship, or the enemies do that if the players waste time in a level. The field is in space, with the field being a rectangle. To play, you must go around shooting and destroying enemy bases, either by shooting its core or shooting all six parts. There, you can move in 8 directions and have a fire button. You control a ship similar to the one in Galaga, only with a few upgrades. It was also ported on to the GameCube in Namco Museum 50th Anniversary. It was one of the first Namco titles to have a continuing feature. It runs on Galaga hardware and has the same video system as Rally-X. For Nintendo system ports, it only came out on Namco Museum Megamix and the Wii Virtual Console Arcade version, which the latter was only ported in Japan. It was released in arcades in November 1981.
Bosconian is a multi-directional shooter created by Namco.
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