Vanguard Ace Vertical Madness

Vanguard Ace is a technically and visually impressive 2D vertical shoot em up released in 1997 for DOS by Imaginative illusions. Set in the near future the earth is being invaded by a bunch of aliens called “Visitors” and it's up to you to stop them.

Players will be able to choose from 5 different ship types. Each of them have different abilities and weakness. Vanguard Ace, boasts a number of features like 70FPS of animation, multi-layered parallax scrolling, rendered graphics, mecha style sprite designs and a bounty of power-ups in this Japanese anime-styled universe.

Source: TheGamesDB