vileyn0id_8088 (21040) on 3/3/2014 5:07 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

I'm probably just having a huge brain fart here - this isn't really an obscure game, and I'm pretty sure I've seen it on MG before, but I can't bloody remember the title for the life of me, and for some reason the game browser isn't helping.

Here's what I recall:

• It's a DOS game with CGA/EGA(?) graphics (maybe VGA too) and incessant PC squealer music. I know I first played it on a friend's 286 w/CGA. The timeframe should be around 1988-1992, but I could be wrong.
• It's a top-down, run-and-gun type of deal with vertical scrolling, set on an alien planet where you shoot icky monster-type enemies. I recall the graphics (at least in the first stage) being reddish-brown and kind of Martian-looking. The closest comparison would be Commando crossed with Alien Syndrome.
• If I remember correctly, it sort of has an ecological message, with a weird backstory about an environmental disaster or pollution on the planet which created all those mutated monsters out of garbage and industrial waste, or some B-movie stuff like that. The manual had b&w line-art drawings of different disgusting enemies and little writeups about them.

The game probably existed on other platforms besides DOS... it's the sort of title that might have also had a far superior Amiga release.

anyone volunteer to refresh my memory?