Air Supply

marco.nadal.75 2018-08-30
As per my earlier comment, there does not seem to be a copy of this game that is playable past the first bonus stage

filename; source; issue
Air Supply.adf; Amiga Classix 4; crashes after loading bonus stage - Guru Meditation
Air Supply (1990)(Magic Bytes)[cr LGD].adf; www.planetemu.net; as above
Air Supply (1990)(Magic Bytes)[cr Angels][t +3 SKR].adf; www.planetemu.net; after first bonus stage, scroller displays 'Please Wait... Loading Stage Two' forever, no disk activity
Air Supply (1990)(Magic Bytes)[cr Defjam].adf; www.planetemu.net; as above, except left side of screen has a vertical line

On the highscore screen, when I press 'S' to save, I get a WinUAE message:

The software uses a non-standard floppy disk format. You may need to use a custom floppy disk image file instead of a standard one. This message will not appear again.

I guess this game is lost to the ages. No big loss -- What survives might serve as inspiration to future SHMUP creators -- this Uridium/Flying Shark mashup deserves further exploration, IMHO.
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marco.nadal.75 2018-08-30
The point of this game is to use the Enter key to drop supply cubes onto the rectangles marked "HELP!" to make them "OK". Each HELP counts as 1 MISSION. Once they are all OK, the boss plane appears and it must be defeated to proceed to bonus round.

This game is clearly badly designed -- it is a vertical shooter with a lot of complications thrown on top that make it worse, not better. A mashup of Uridium/Flying Shark could be a really good game, if it were refined more.

Nonetheless, I enjoyed figuring out a winning strategy, until I discovered that my copy crashed when loading the bonus stage. Another copy does not load Stage 2.

I am currently checking the variants available on the Internet to see if I can find a 100% working copy. I am using WinUAE 4 with max compatibility settings enabled. If you know how to fully play this game, please let me know!
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Haplo 2006-11-24
Difficult and boring.
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Jams 2006-06-23
(8/10)
Amazing!you can change the background colour so the game never gets boring
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Sakura_Star1 2006-04-05
(5/10)
Hard, borring and not so cool at all.
Nice texture of colors when you change the background.
Nice music either.

5/10
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