History Videogame / Demonstar

* PlanetTerra: You are a player from the terran fleet and when you start a mission. You get a message from Terran Base announcing that the pilots have launched.

** The red bomb fires a spew (or, in the case of ''OM'', a literal forward spread) of small explosive munitions that damage anything caught in their delayed explosion.

Gameplay-wise, ''[=DemonStar=]'' draws many references from the ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}}'' series, in particular ''Viper Phase 1: New Version''. The game supports two players, with the Player 1 and Player 2 ships colored red and blue respectively. The goal of every level is to destroy the boss at the end. The player starts out with a standard twin-barrel SlowLaser main gun that can be upgraded by collecting powerups dropped from larger {{Mook}}s. The powerups change colors at set intervals and determine what upgraded shot the main gun fires. Successive upgrades of the same color will [[EvolvingAttack further upgrade]] the main gun but picking up a different color will drop the main gun's upgrade to the lowest level. The player also has a limited stock of secondary weapons that they can use to clear out most enemies on the screen at once. Additional powerups that the player can get include permanent side- and rear-firing cannons as well as a temporary stock of dumbfire or homing rockets.

Gameplay-wise, ''[=DemonStar=]'' draws many references from the ''VideoGame/{{Raiden}}'' series, in particular ''Viper Phase 1: New Version''. The game supports two players, with the Player 1 and Player 2 ships colored red and blue respectively. The goal of every level is to destroy the boss at the end. The player starts out with a standard twin-barrel SlowLaser main gun that can be upgraded by collecting powerups dropped from larger {{Mook}}s. The powerups change colors at set intervals and determine what upgraded shot the main gun fires. Successive upgrades of the same color will [[EvolvingAttack further upgrade]] the main gun, but picking up a different color will drop the main gun's upgrade to the lowest level. The player also has a limited stock of secondary weapons that they can use to clear out most enemies on the screen at once. Additional powerups that the player can get include permanent side- and rear-firing cannons as well as a temporary stock of dumbfire or homing rockets.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: The missile powerup adds a limited stock of dumbfire or homing missiles that automatically fire with the player ship's main weapons. Despite looking small, the missile fire quickly and do lots of damage.

** The blue bomb powerup gives the player their own version of the Xidus' blue forward laser, which rapid fires for about 5 seconds and will one-shot almost anything it hits.

# ''[=DemonStar=]'' (''DS'') was released on January 28, 1998. The player is a pilot in the Terran Fleet who was testing out the [=RaptorX=] SuperPrototype SpaceFighter when the Xidus Armada launched an attack on the fleet, destroying all of the fleet's mainstay Raptor fighters, except the handful of [=RaptorX=] prototypes, which were away on testing at the time. Using the unfinished [=RaptorX=] prototype, the player takes the fight to the Xidus by attacking their space fleets and controlled planets, with the ultimate goal of destroying TheDreadedDreadnought of the Xidus'-- the [[TitleDrop DemonStar]].

It's a video game developed by Mountain King Studios and released January 28, 1998. It is a top-down vertical shoot-em up. It is a successor to its previous title, Raptor Call of the Shadows. The game takes place in outer space but also takes place in various planets. You fly the RaptorX and Destroy the Alien organization called the Alien Shogunate Xidus Armada. You must destroy their ultimate weapon called the Demonstar and take on the Armada fleet. 

!!'''''Demonstar'' provides examples of the following tropes:'''

* AcePilot: You play as a space pilot and must single handedly defeat your enemies. (Obviously with the exception of a two player mode)
* PlanetTerra: You are launched by the Terran Fleet and Terran Base states "Fighter's Launched"
* SingleBiomePlanet: When the mission is not in space. You're mission is on various planets that appear to have only one biome.

* SingleBiome: When the mission is not in space. You're mission is on various planets that appear to have only one biome.

It's a video game developed by Mountain King Studios and released January 28, 1998. It is a top-down vertical shoot-em up. It is a successor to its previous title, Raptor Call of the Shadows. The game takes place in outer space but also takes place in various planets. You fly the RaptorX and Destroy the Alien organization called the Alien Shogunate Xidus Armada. You must destroy their ultimate weapon called the demonstar and take on the Armada fleet.