Cave-flyers and Thrust clones

Group Description

A so-called cave-flyer takes the 360° control method from the venerable Asteroids, adds gravitation and/or inertia, and puts your ship in a landscape with more obstacles than enemies. The most classic example of the genre is Thrust.

In the early nineties, multi-player battle cave-flyers such as GF2, AUTS and Turboraketti II became popular, and the genre received its current name.

The genre flourished in Europe from the early to mid-90's both on Amiga and PC thanks to numerous caveflier games published by young Finnish coders and shareware groups which spread around quickly through BBS systems and the registered versions were popular at copy parties.

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Game Title	Year	Platform	Publisher	MobyScore
Rotor	1989	Amiga, Atari ST, DOS	Microdaft	2.75
Bratwurst	1995	Amiga	Three Little Elks	3.00
AUTS - The Ultimate Stress Relief Game	1995	DOS		3.10
Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship	1990	NES	Tradewest, Inc.	3.23
Gravity Force	1989	Amiga, Atari ST, DOS	Kingsoft GmbH	3.45
Gravitar	1983	Atari 2600	Atari Corporation	3.50
TerraFire	1997	DOS, Windows	ORT Software	3.50
Thrust	1986	Amstrad CPC, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Vectrex, ZX Spectrum	Hozer Video Games	3.66
Gravity Force 2	1994	Amiga	Bits Productions	3.83
Oids	1987	Atari ST, Macintosh	FTL Games	4.04
TurboRaketti II	1998	Amiga		4.20
V-Wing	1997	DOS		4.20
Gravity Power	1995	Amiga		4.22
Rocket Chase	1997	DOS, Windows		4.25
Gauntlet	1984	Atari 8-bit		4.33
Sub-Terrania	1993	Genesis	SEGA Enterprises Ltd.	4.45
Fleuch 2.0	1993	Amiga		4.60
Zarathrusta	1991	Amiga	21st Century Entertainment Ltd.	4.60
Comet Racer	2009	Browser	Donut Games	...
Fly Harder	1993	Amiga, Amiga CD32, Commodore 64	Krisalis Software Ltd.	...