1999 Unknown
Platform: Game Boy Color
Our next entry was due for release on the Game Boy Color around 1999-2000, and has a working title of F19 Stealth Air. We’re not sure if it was a homebrew development or intended as a commercial release, though it seems to be leaning towards the prior.
Searching through some of the online homebrew archives, we haven’t been able to find anything that matches its description. There has been a suggestion that the game was a competition entry for BUNG, but we haven’t found it yet.
Additionally – it has been flagged that the game is a demake/conversion of Raptor: Call of the Shadows. The question is whether it was a proper intended conversion or riffed for the competition. If you know anything more about the title, please do get in touch.
The game itself is a vertical scrolling shooter with a large F19 jetfighter that has an array of weapons which can destroy various craft that heads towards you, but also hit targets on the ground as well. It’s a neat early preview with just a single level and a few attack waves.
Once you finish the level, it starts to go into the game’s code, showing corrupted graphics. Sometimes it will also crash when you make certain collisions – which is understandable given how early the build is. Whatever the intention was for the game – its a shame it was seemingly never finished, or is there in fact a full version out there waiting to be saved?
The music is a cover of Second Reality’s “UnreaL” tune, but sped up a lot. We hope to learn more about this title in the future and will update this page once we know more.
With thanks to DeusIX and Durinde for the Raptor linkage and Haroldook for the suggestion it was indeed homebrew.
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