An 8 Bit arcade rail shooter game about blastin' alien sentry ships!

In the year 40XX, you are tasked by the Galactic Federation to go to Tzarkov-9 in the Apogee Cluster to request an alliance between the Federation and the Tzarkovians. However, the non-sentient sentries believe you a threat and have deployed despite the Tzarkovians knowing your coming! You, as pilot of the SOLARIS starship, must outlast the sentries for as long as possible to recharge your Hyperspace cell and make the jump to Light-Speed and get to Tzarkov-9!!

ABOVE: The four sentry types that keep you from Tzarkov-9.

Can you last long enough to recharge your Hyperspace cell? Or will the sentries blast you into oblivion?

MENU CONTROLS

Z - Player 1 Game
X - Player 2 Game
SPACEBAR - Score Display

In-Game Controls

PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	ACTION
Z	M	Shoot
X	N	Ion Beam
Arrow Keys	WASD	Move

P.S. Also works with a gamepad.

More information

Sheikom Gaming

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5
Publisher
Release date	Feb 26, 2024
Author	Sheikom Gaming
Genre	Shooter
Tags	2D, 8-Bit, Multiplayer, On-Rails Shooter, Retro
Average session	About a half-hour
Inputs	Keyboard, Gamepad (any)
Multiplayer	Local multiplayer
Player count	1 - 2

Download

SOLARIS (DOSBOX Version).html 10 MB

Development log

Added DOSBOX Color Pallete Version.
Feb 27, 2024
UPDATE PATCHNOTES (Version 1.1)
Feb 25, 2024

Comments

Sheikom Gaming271 days ago (2 edits)

REFERENCES!

This game includes references to older video games that are as follows:

SALORIS is named after the Atari 2600 game of the same name.
The gameplay resembles some of the old 80s arcade space rail-shooters games, such as Galaga and Space Invaders.
The four sentry bots are named after old videogames. ("Zork-I82" is named after an old text-based adventure game for the PDP-10 Computer named Zork. "ARKA-Droid" is named after the old arcade block-breaking game Arkanoid. "Zaxxon-LXXXII" is named after the isometric rail shooter Zaxxon. And the "Stargl87-IDER" is named after BredePlayz's favourite 80s game Starglider.)
The title theme for the DOSBOX version of Solaris is the Commodore 64 Version of StarGlider's theme!

Hope ya enjoyed this little bit of trivia!