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  1. Haha, reviews?  WHAT?  So this thing, too, exists...

    Can't be replied to, though.  So here's my not-a-review reply, straight from Wikipedia.

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    Thexder quickly became a best-selling hit, selling over 500,000 copies in Japan by 1987.[2][3] The PC-8801 platform was only popular in Japan and, despite home market success, Thexder garnered little attention abroad initially. With the conversion for the MSX (the best-selling platform in Brazil and many Eastern European countries), it became an international hit. It became the company's best-selling title of 1987. By 1990, the game had sold over one million copies worldwide.[4]

    Compute! praised the Apple IIGS version of Thexder as the computer's "first true arcade game" with "excellent play value for your dollar".[5] In 1988, The Games Machine gave the Amiga version a 74% score.[1] In 1991, Dragon gave the Macintosh and PC/MS-DOS versions of the game each 4 out of 5 stars.[6] The game went on to sell over one million copies worldwide, becoming Game Arts' biggest-selling title of 1987.[4] Thexder is considered an important breakthrough title for the run-and-gun shooter game genre, paving the way for titles such as Contra and Metal Slug.[7]

     

    I remember the port Sierra did for PCs.  The Famicom port was done by pre-nothing-but-FF-Square.  I doubt it would be any fun today, but I guess there was less to choose from in 1987.

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