I feel bad even rating this -- could only find the supposedly highly-inferior PC-8801 version with like, two colors, in which it's virtually impossible to see the bullets.
It's fun only to play for 5-or-so minutes and imagine being a kid whose parents bought it for them in '83. Would they think it was dope? Maybe they would. Maybe they would love it and play it over and over and memorize where the bullets are at at any given time (because you can't see them!!!), and master the game, and brag to their friends at school about their score, and be like, "dude you guys HAVE to play Thunder Force."
It's cool to think about the not-so-far-back world in which that definitely could have happened.
It's fun only to play for 5-or-so minutes and imagine being a kid whose parents bought it for them in '83. Would they think it was dope? Maybe they would. Maybe they would love it and play it over and over and memorize where the bullets are at at any given time (because you can't see them!!!), and master the game, and brag to their friends at school about their score, and be like, "dude you guys HAVE to play Thunder Force."
It's cool to think about the not-so-far-back world in which that definitely could have happened.