STRIKERS 1945
This easy to pick up but hard to master
shooter masterpiece from Psikyo
is one of their most popular titles!
STRIKERS 1945 is a
vertical-scrolling shooter game that
first appeared in arcades in 1995.
Battleships and tanks transform into futuristic mechs!
Enjoy heart-stopping boss battles at every turn, the hallmark of the STRIKERS series!
The legendary Psikyo Bullets are coming for you!
Pilot your fighter plane to places beyond your wildest imagination…
STRIKERS are on the move!
Stop the secret organization CANY from taking over the world!
The game comes with options you can tweak to your liking.
Pick your preferred difficulty, max lives, max continues, key controls,
and screen orientation to make the game just right for you.
Don’t forget about the new online rankings!
Do you have what it takes to become the best STRIKER in the world?
Planes:
Six World War-era fighters are at your service, each with unique abilities.
“P” items power up your unit and add sub-weapons to it.
“B” items give you bombs that deal area damage to clear out enemies or help with emergency escapes.
Store up your shot to unleash a powerful formation attack!
ARCADE Mode:
Seven difficulty tiers to cater to all levels of players—including beginners!
Those looking for a challenge should try out HARD and VERY HARD modes!
There will be local rankings for each plane in each difficulty mode.
Options:
Play in vertical screen mode for that nostalgic arcade experience!
Two additional screen filters for your enjoyment.
Lives can be set between 1 to 9, whereas continues can be set between 0 to infinity.
Freely configure your preferred keys for shots, auto-shots, or bombs.
Vertical screen mode is playable even in landscape orientation. You decide your style!
SCORE ATTACK:
This mode has a fixed difficulty and number of lives. Serious challengers only!
Submit your high scores to compete with players from around the world!
Online rankings can be viewed from the options menu.
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
This is a HARD Game ! You might Rage on IT !
BUT, It was fun, the only complain is that Even if you play with a controller, you can't use the "Joystick " to move, you had to move with Directional Keys...
Nice graphics, great effects
This game are Fresh, the game will have a "Random Generated Boss" per stage, like say stage 1-4 order are not linear, so on the early stage you felt something fresh.
I also liked the Variety of Player Ship to Choose from.
The Game is hard, your plane is already small but...the Hit Detection are Insane...
THIS IS A HARD GAME !!!
Steam User 2
Everything I could want in an arcade release brought to PC. Looks, plays, sounds as good as you could want on a modern set up on PC.
Outstanding effort by the team that has brought this to Steam. This is a great example of an arcade conversion done right on the PC platform.
Steam User 1
A solid vertical shoot em up with good graphics for the time, six different planes to use, and eight stages with a bit of randomness on the order you can play the first four in and with what bosses and sub bosses can appear on later stages. Each plane has a unique shot type, bomb types, and as they power up they have different subweapons that you can charge up by holding shoot to activate a different temporary attack mode. Bosses often shift from their first mode into some type of mech for their final form. Playing through the game once begins a second more difficult run. No story other than your final score and completed runs altering an ending look at your pilot either in full uniform with no details known to detailing their name and having them in less clothing until they are topless (and covering themselves except for the one male pilot).
The stages don't do too much of interest with the environments. There are some ground targets and at one point effects of enemy planes coming through the clouds but nothing too interesting apart from good visuals. Enemy bullet patterns are often fair as is there spawn locations but certain attacks can cover such a wide area or come at you so much faster than normal enemy shots that you really have to know the game to be able to avoid what is coming at times, even more so in the slower planes. Enemy types themselves never do anything too interesting but there is just enough variety, though the mechs bosses transform into are never very visual interesting or too distinct from one another in style.
The PC version has the typically expected positive inclusions. You can remap the controls, you can make a button auto shoot when held down (so you still need a normal shot to activate your charge attack), you can choose between seven difficulty modes (though only 4 and up have the additional runs after a completion), you can give yourself nine lives instead of the usual three, and can add more or infinite continues (which become disabled when you access a 2nd or 3rd run in the same playthrough), there is a high score mode, co-op is supported, etc.
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Steam User 1
Great SHMUP! Not to difficult yet not to easy! Great Starter Shooter!
Steam User 0
Simple and effective. One of the best shmups ever. It has the Psikyo magic. Fun gameplay, great level design, cool bosses, epic action.
Steam User 0
I love this game but this port could use some more features like a practice mode or a rewind options. It feels pretty barebones this way tbh.
Also i heard the imput lag on the game is about 4 frames wich is not that bad for this types of ports compared to other Zerodiv realeses.
It's cool that they added the arcade endings too!
But hey, it's not that bad of a port overall idk.
Steam User 2
Fun and very accessible on the easier modes. Very addicting and not as ballbreaking as Samurai Aces