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Vanguard Ace: Vertical Madness

The earth is being invaded by a bunch of aliens called "Visitors" and it's up to you to stop them. Players will be able to choose from 5 different ship types. Each of them have different abilities and…

31 December 1997

Vanguard Ace: Vertical Madness is an arcade, released 31 December 1997 on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Vanguard Ace: Vertical Madness is

Vanguard Ace: Vertical Madness was released in 1997. It was published by Midas Interactive Entertainment. It is available on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The earth is being invaded by a bunch of aliens called "Visitors" and it's up to you to stop them. Players will be able to choose from 5 different ship types. Each of them have different abilities and weakness. Vanguard Ace, boasts a number of features like 70FPS of animation, multi-layered parallax scrolling, rendered graphics, mecha style sprite designs and a bounty of power-ups in this Japanese anime-styled universe.
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How it plays

Its themes are action and science fiction.

What it launched against

Vanguard Ace: Vertical Madness launched on 31 December 1997, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Vanguard Ace: Vertical Madness was released on 31 December 1997 for DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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