The harder part is trying to stay alive throughout the game without being swarmed with enemy ships surrounding you and space stations firing in all directions, that is the more difficult part about the game, and it will only get more difficult as you manage to get into the higher levels of gameplay where it becomes more tedious to manage to stay alive.Bosconian is an arcade multi-directional space shooter developed and released by Namco into arcades in 1981. It is simple and easy to learn the controls that is the easy part. Difficulty: 5 The actual control difficulty is simple and there are only 2 functions, moving with the control pad and also shooting which is the a button for me on a gamecube controller when I used to play it. So I rated the overall depth of the game a 5 because it is like all arcade games where it can just go on forever and just continually get increasingly harder to stay alive and complete the objective of destroying the space stations. I have maybe gotten into like level 20 or so which I think is funny because I got that score while playing with a joystick, and my high score was like 105,300 or something along the lines of that, and I can never seem to beat that score with a regular gamecube controller which I find funny. So it is really no different from any regular game out there, the game gets harder as you move up into the higher and more advanced levels.
And also the chances of getting condition red are more prominent because more of the yellow spy ships report back to the stations, and then there are always the attack formations which they send on you, multiply the amount of ships in each attack formation, 5, by the amount of stations out there which would be X and then you find yourself swarmed in ships that are ready to attack you at any given time. Depth: 5 It is just one of those can go on forever and they make it more challenging and after the first 5 levels it becomes harder to avoid all of the obstacles in space as well as avoid being shot by the stations or enemy ships. I rated the story a 4 because it doesn't really have one, but instead it has an objective that is easy to follow and it fits in with the game.
After clearing the given amount of ships and stations, you move on a level. So as I said before the objective of this game is to destroy the enemy ships as well as the stations by shooting their core and make them explode. Story: 4 Okay, again games like this don't really come with a back story that explains and elaborates on why you are in a spaceship sent into space to destroy enemy ships and fly around and destroy things, no, these games come with an objective over a long complex storyline. The game's graphics are pretty much like your standard arcade game with an 8 bit pixel screen, so they are very simple but nevertheless pretty good. I rated it an 8 because although they are simple, they still look nice and the sprites for the enemy ships and stations look nice. Graphics: 8 As I have said in previous reviews of these arcade games, they are not known for amazing graphics, these games were some of the first and the graphics and animations are simple. I scored the game a 9.1 overall because the objective and game play itself is simple and it stays the same all throughout the game.
Any ships left are shown in white, space stations in green and attack formations in red in their corresponding shape of formation. The ship fires in both front and back directions to destroy enemy ships and the location of ships are displayed on the radar and their relative location to you. You must also avoid floating asteroids and cosmos, space mines, enemy ships and anything else they shoot at you.