SWIV (1991)
- Developer
- Random Access
- Publisher
- Storm, SCi Games
- Platforms
- Game Boy Color, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Atari ST/STE, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, MSX
- Genres
- Shooter
- Rating
- 4.0 of 5, 17 player ratings
The catalog in 3D
The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A frenetic vertical shooter with cooperative helicopter and jeep play, blasting through waves of enemies in classic arcade fashion.
fast-pacedarcade-styleco-opintenseretroshoot em up
About
SWIV is a vertical scrolling shooter and an unofficial follow-up to Sales Curve's conversion of the side scroller Tecmo arcade game Silkworm. One player controls a helicopter and the other a jeep, with the jeep transforming into a boat when the vehicles pass over water. As well as a host of blaster fodder the game also includes a mid-level enemy inspired by the "Goose" enemy from the earlier title Silkworm. Pieces of this enemy would fly onto the screen and assemble into one vehicle before commencing to fire at the players' vehicles. When destroyed the "goose" would drop power-ups.
Screenshots
More games like this
- S.W.I.V. (1991)
Silk Worm (1988)
Firepower 2000 (1992)
Chariot: Adventure Through the Sky (1991)
D-Force (1991)
Thunderchopper (1989)
Toki (1991)
Spectre (1991)- More like this game, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.
