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'''OIDS''' is a space ShootEmUp VideoGame by Creator/FTLGames, released for the UsefulNotes/AtariST in 1987 and the UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh in 1990.
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'''OIDS''' is a space ShootEmUp VideoGame by Creator/FTLGames, released for the UsefulNotes/AtariST Platform/AtariST in 1987 and the UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Platform/AppleMacintosh in 1990.
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A shareware remake for Mac OS X was released in 2003, and a reverse-engineered version for the UsefulNotes/CommodoreAmiga was released in 2014.
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* BottomlessFuelTanks: Averted hard. The V-Wing has a limited amount of fuel, and can only get more by either landing next to a fuel depot or returning a load of OIDS to the mothership.
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* BottomlessFuelTanks: Averted hard. The Averted, the V-Wing has a limited amount of fuel, and can only get more by either landing next to a fuel depot or returning a load of OIDS to the mothership.
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It can perhaps best be described as "''VideoGame/{{Choplifter}}'', except that you're flying the ship from ''VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}'' in the world of ''VideoGame/LunarLander''". As a member of the organization [=SaveOIDS=], your mission is to rescue android slaves called OIDS from the Biocretes who created them.
The player must fly their V-Wing to rescue the OIDS, destroying the buildings they are being held in and then landing to pick them up and carry them back to your mothership. Meanwhile, the player must avoid attacks from Biocrete defenses, avoid crashing into the world's surface, and avoid running out of fuel. The V-Wing is a OneHitPointWonder, but a deflector shield can protect it for a brief period of time before it needs to recharge. The V-Wing can fire back with "nuclear pellets", which fires several normal shots, and a limited number of "nova bombs", which create a large explosion. Gravity is constantly pulling the V-Wing down, and its only means of control are rotation and thrust, so flying through narrow spaces is tricky at best.
The player must fly their V-Wing to rescue the OIDS, destroying the buildings they are being held in and then landing to pick them up and carry them back to your mothership. Meanwhile, the player must avoid attacks from Biocrete defenses, avoid crashing into the world's surface, and avoid running out of fuel. The V-Wing is a OneHitPointWonder, but a deflector shield can protect it for a brief period of time before it needs to recharge. The V-Wing can fire back with "nuclear pellets", which fires several normal shots, and a limited number of "nova bombs", which create a large explosion. Gravity is constantly pulling the V-Wing down, and its only means of control are rotation and thrust, so flying through narrow spaces is tricky at best.
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It can perhaps best be described as "''VideoGame/{{Choplifter}}'', except that you're "''VideoGame/{{Choplifter}}'' in the world of ''VideoGame/LunarLander'' while flying the ship from ''VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}'' in the world of ''VideoGame/LunarLander''".''VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}''". As a member of the organization [=SaveOIDS=], your mission is to rescue android slaves called OIDS from the Biocretes who created them.
The player must fly their V-Wing to rescue the OIDS, destroying thebuildings factories they are being held in and then landing to pick them up and carry them back to your mothership. Meanwhile, the player must avoid attacks from Biocrete defenses, avoid crashing into the world's surface, and avoid running out of fuel. The V-Wing is a OneHitPointWonder, but a deflector shield can protect it for a brief period of time before it needs to recharge. The V-Wing can fire back with "nuclear pellets", which fires several normal shots, and a limited number of "nova bombs", which create a large explosion. Gravity is constantly pulling the V-Wing down, and its only means of control are rotation and thrust, so flying through narrow spaces is tricky at best.
The player must fly their V-Wing to rescue the OIDS, destroying the
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The player must fly their V-Wing to rescue the OIDS, destroying the buildings they are being held in and then landing to pick them up and carry them back to your mothership. Meanwhile, the player must avoid attacks from Biocrete defenses, avoid crashing into the world's surface, and avoid running out of fuel. The V-Wing is a OneHitPointWonder, but a deflector shield can protect it for a brief period of time before it needs to recharge. The V-Wing can fire back with "nuclear pellets", which fires several normal shots, and a limited number of "nove bombs", which create a large explosion. Gravity is constantly pulling the V-Wing down, and its only means of control are rotation and thrust, so flying through narrow spaces is tricky at best.
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The player must fly their V-Wing to rescue the OIDS, destroying the buildings they are being held in and then landing to pick them up and carry them back to your mothership. Meanwhile, the player must avoid attacks from Biocrete defenses, avoid crashing into the world's surface, and avoid running out of fuel. The V-Wing is a OneHitPointWonder, but a deflector shield can protect it for a brief period of time before it needs to recharge. The V-Wing can fire back with "nuclear pellets", which fires several normal shots, and a limited number of "nove "nova bombs", which create a large explosion. Gravity is constantly pulling the V-Wing down, and its only means of control are rotation and thrust, so flying through narrow spaces is tricky at best.
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It can perhaps best be described as "''VideoGame/{{Choplifter}}, except that you're flying the ship from ''VideoGame/Asteroids'' in the world of ''VideoGame/LunarLander''". As a member of the organization [=SaveOIDS=], your mission is to rescue android slaves called OIDS from the Biocretes who created them.
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It can perhaps best be described as "''VideoGame/{{Choplifter}}, "''VideoGame/{{Choplifter}}'', except that you're flying the ship from ''VideoGame/Asteroids'' ''VideoGame/{{Asteroids}}'' in the world of ''VideoGame/LunarLander''". As a member of the organization [=SaveOIDS=], your mission is to rescue android slaves called OIDS from the Biocretes who created them.
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->'''Free the OIDS!'''
'''OIDS''' is a space ShootEmUp VideoGame by Creator/FTLGames, released for the UsefulNotes/AtariST in 1987 and the UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh in 1990.
It can perhaps best be described as "''VideoGame/{{Choplifter}}, except that you're flying the ship from ''VideoGame/Asteroids'' in the world of ''VideoGame/LunarLander''". As a member of the organization [=SaveOIDS=], your mission is to rescue android slaves called OIDS from the Biocretes who created them.
The player must fly their V-Wing to rescue the OIDS, destroying the buildings they are being held in and then landing to pick them up and carry them back to your mothership. Meanwhile, the player must avoid attacks from Biocrete defenses, avoid crashing into the world's surface, and avoid running out of fuel. The V-Wing is a OneHitPointWonder, but a deflector shield can protect it for a brief period of time before it needs to recharge. The V-Wing can fire back with "nuclear pellets", which fires several normal shots, and a limited number of "nove bombs", which create a large explosion. Gravity is constantly pulling the V-Wing down, and its only means of control are rotation and thrust, so flying through narrow spaces is tricky at best.
The game came with a LevelEditor, and FTL sponsored a monthly contest for the best user-submitted level, awarding $100 to each month's winner. All entrants received a disk with all the monthly winners after the contest ended.
A shareware remake for Mac OS X was released in 2003, and a reverse-engineered version for the UsefulNotes/CommodoreAmiga was released in 2014.
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!!Tropes found in ''OIDS'' include:
* ArtificialGravity: Biocrete defenses include Gravbases that will attract the player's ship, as well as Repulsors that push it away.
* BottomlessFuelTanks: Averted hard. The V-Wing has a limited amount of fuel, and can only get more by either landing next to a fuel depot or returning a load of OIDS to the mothership.
* CollisionDamage: Impacting anything in any way other than a controlled landing on a flat surface, or a controlled docking with the mothership, will cause the V-Wing to explode.
* CoolGate: There are multiple colors of teleporters, which will take the V-Wing to a teleporter of the same color.
* DeflectorShield:
** A variant - the shield will protect the V-Wing for a while, but doesn't recharge on its own. Instead, the player must manually recharge the shield, which burns fuel.
** The Biocretes have shields as well, which will recharge over time until they're destroyed.
* EveryTenThousandPoints: An extra V-Wing is awarded for every full load of 8 OIDS returned to the mothership.
* OneHitPointWonder: The V-Wing explodes as soon as it's hit by any enemy attack, or by crashing into anything.
* OneWordTitle: OIDS.
* StatusLine: Shows your score, fuel remaining, shield status, number of ships remaining, number of OIDS on board, and number of nova bombs remaining.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can easily kill the OIDS in many ways, including shooting them, burning them with your ship's exhaust, and turning on your shield when they're in range of it. If you crash with OIDS on your ship, you can see them burst into flames in the status line.
* VideoGameLives: The player starts with 4 V-Wings, and gains another for every full load of 8 OIDS returned to the mothership.
* WrapAround: The planets are larger than one screen, but wrap around from side to side.
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->'''Free the OIDS!'''
'''OIDS''' is a space ShootEmUp VideoGame by Creator/FTLGames, released for the UsefulNotes/AtariST in 1987 and the UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh in 1990.
It can perhaps best be described as "''VideoGame/{{Choplifter}}, except that you're flying the ship from ''VideoGame/Asteroids'' in the world of ''VideoGame/LunarLander''". As a member of the organization [=SaveOIDS=], your mission is to rescue android slaves called OIDS from the Biocretes who created them.
The player must fly their V-Wing to rescue the OIDS, destroying the buildings they are being held in and then landing to pick them up and carry them back to your mothership. Meanwhile, the player must avoid attacks from Biocrete defenses, avoid crashing into the world's surface, and avoid running out of fuel. The V-Wing is a OneHitPointWonder, but a deflector shield can protect it for a brief period of time before it needs to recharge. The V-Wing can fire back with "nuclear pellets", which fires several normal shots, and a limited number of "nove bombs", which create a large explosion. Gravity is constantly pulling the V-Wing down, and its only means of control are rotation and thrust, so flying through narrow spaces is tricky at best.
The game came with a LevelEditor, and FTL sponsored a monthly contest for the best user-submitted level, awarding $100 to each month's winner. All entrants received a disk with all the monthly winners after the contest ended.
A shareware remake for Mac OS X was released in 2003, and a reverse-engineered version for the UsefulNotes/CommodoreAmiga was released in 2014.
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!!Tropes found in ''OIDS'' include:
* ArtificialGravity: Biocrete defenses include Gravbases that will attract the player's ship, as well as Repulsors that push it away.
* BottomlessFuelTanks: Averted hard. The V-Wing has a limited amount of fuel, and can only get more by either landing next to a fuel depot or returning a load of OIDS to the mothership.
* CollisionDamage: Impacting anything in any way other than a controlled landing on a flat surface, or a controlled docking with the mothership, will cause the V-Wing to explode.
* CoolGate: There are multiple colors of teleporters, which will take the V-Wing to a teleporter of the same color.
* DeflectorShield:
** A variant - the shield will protect the V-Wing for a while, but doesn't recharge on its own. Instead, the player must manually recharge the shield, which burns fuel.
** The Biocretes have shields as well, which will recharge over time until they're destroyed.
* EveryTenThousandPoints: An extra V-Wing is awarded for every full load of 8 OIDS returned to the mothership.
* OneHitPointWonder: The V-Wing explodes as soon as it's hit by any enemy attack, or by crashing into anything.
* OneWordTitle: OIDS.
* StatusLine: Shows your score, fuel remaining, shield status, number of ships remaining, number of OIDS on board, and number of nova bombs remaining.
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can easily kill the OIDS in many ways, including shooting them, burning them with your ship's exhaust, and turning on your shield when they're in range of it. If you crash with OIDS on your ship, you can see them burst into flames in the status line.
* VideoGameLives: The player starts with 4 V-Wings, and gains another for every full load of 8 OIDS returned to the mothership.
* WrapAround: The planets are larger than one screen, but wrap around from side to side.
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