The Hardcore Retro God (Review #57 - Solar Striker)
Channel: The Hardcore Retro God
Date: 2019-05-02

Considering it's been over a month since my previous review...WHY NOT MAKE YET ANOTHER WELL-DESERVED COMEBACK?!  

Our latest is this - an early, simplistic shmup hailing from the launch era of the Game Boy - developed for Nintendo by Minakuchi Engineering (the same folks responsible for Mega Man - Dr. Wily's Revenge and 3, 4 & 5 / Bionic Commando for Capcom, no less) alongside their R&D1 division!  

Set in 2159, the indefatigable efforts of the recently-established Earth Federal Government and their Army are at odds with the extraterrestrial Reticulon forces. The Army's mobile unit has developed their advanced Mother Athena space fighter (hence its titular codename) as a violent, final strike on the Reticulon's faraway star known as Turin and its surrounding solar system.