Tyrian 2000 Appreciation Thread

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Hey kid! You like freeware? You like space shooters with deep upgrade systems and amazing graphics, level design, and music? Well boy do I have the game for you. Packaged into your 1995 ACER home computer next to the Fury³ demo you will find...uh..another demo, but this one belongs to a little MS-DOS game called TYRIAN 2000. Boot it up and your life will never be the same.

Link to download OpenTyrian2000 so you can play it on your modern PC: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/opentyrian.html
Link to OpenTyrian page on Tyrian Fandom wiki: https://tyrian.fandom.com/wiki/OpenTyrian
Link to github project page: https://github.com/KScl/opentyrian2000
Link to the greatest OST of almost any game, ever: OST Playlist

In this thread we talk about the best space shooter ever invented...TYRIAN 2000.
 
My favorite part about Tyrian is the fact that it's set in 20,031.

The near future? Something you can imagine and look forward to optimistically or lament with dread at its plausibility? 200X?

Fuck all that nonsense, that's for pussies. We don't need that near-future storytelling crutch. We're going 18,000 years in the future. It's so absurdly far off it's hardly even a consideration. I'm proud of us for making it that long.
 
SuperCarrot bros we're so back.
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I've never played this before and I'm not a huge fan of vertical scrolling shooters but god damn it your passionate post has convinced me to try it.

EDIT: It's pretty neat, giving me flashbacks of a similar game I played 1000 years ago. Vertical shooter, earn money on missions, can buy upgrades to ship, but I can't remember what it was called.
 
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I remember the badass guitar riff on the Acer logo from the OEM version. Was one of my favorite games to play on the old family Windows 98 shitbox as a kid.
 
Oh wow, I had completely forgotten this game existed. I played this game all the time on my dad's computer when I was little. First vertical shooter I ever played. Liked using the banana guns.
 
Picnic_Boy said:
Love me eurojank. Only two schmups in my life: Tyrian and Fantasy Zone.
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Hell yeah. I kinda dug some of the Neo Geo shooters with charm like Aero Wings 2 where you could play as a dolphin pilot among other fun characters, but my favorite part of Tyrian 2000 was that you control the ship with the mouse in almost 1-to-1 sync with the cursor (absolute genius concept) and the fact that you can take multiple hits depending on the object and your shield, but some things are still strong enough to totally demolish you if they hit...it feels so much more "realistic". Get hit with a laser or a bullet? You lose some shields, maybe some HP. Run into an asteroid 2x larger than your ship? you're toast.

And the music, of course, is just a thing of beauty.
 
Fascist Frederick said:
I've never played this before and I'm not a huge fan of vertical scrolling shooters but god damn it your passionate post has convinced me to try it.

EDIT: It's pretty neat, giving me flashbacks of a similar game I played 1000 years ago. Vertical shooter, earn money on missions, can buy upgrades to ship, but I can't remember what it was called.
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Maybe it's Raptor: Call of the Shadows.

 
Seeing the thread title had me thinking Tyrian was on Good old Games at one point and then removed but when I went to verify my memory it was still there. Raptor Call of the Shadows must be the one that I'm thinking of where it was on GOG at one point.

Link to the game for free (just needs an account with GOG) for the Tyrian 2000 version and it seems to include the soundtrack.

On the topic of Raptor I had seen a remake or re-release mentioned a while back when trying to find out why it was removed from GOG and I saw the rumblings of something but it seems to have never borne fruit. Searching into it now I've found some mention of it coming soon with a trailer from 2022 and a link to a Kickstarter page so there is some hope on that front.
 
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