Interceptor (Demo)

You are an interceptor pilot for the Empire, tasked with screening enemy bombers and fighters from your fleet while leading the charge into theirs. Clear a path for your own bombers to strike at the heart of the Federation's fleets and show them the resolve of the outer colonies!

Story:

Amidst an economic crisis for the Earth Federation and its core colonies, another invasion campaign has been launched to reclaim the resource rich region known as the Outer Colonies. The colonies of this region had long ago declared independence from the Federation and declared themselves the Iron Wolves Empire. Amidst an era of great reform led by the newly crowned emperor, the Empire prospers without the heavy regulation and corruption of the Earth Federation and will fight tooth and nail to remain independent.

Controls:

• D-Pad: Move ship
• A: Fire standard shots
• B: Fire energy bomb (higher damage, recharges between shots)
• Start: Pause
• Select: Invert background palette

Coming soon:

• More music
• More levels (probably 8)
• Improved graphics
• Intro screens for every level (or every few levels as storage permits)
• Improved game over and victory screens
• Better Super Game Boy border

Unlike a lot of retro-styled games where it's a standalone game that emulates the style of past games, this is a game built from the ground up to run on the original Game Boy and its successors.

This game is distributed as a standard 64KB .gb ROM file which should work on almost any Game Boy emulator of your choice. It should also work on any MBC5-compatible flashcart if you have your own and want to play it on live hardware. Closer to the final release of the game, I will start producing my own cartridges to sell the game in a physical form, but the ROM itself will always be available free of charge on here.

Depending on your emulator or hardware of choice, you might notice the background and HUD are differently colored. This is because there is code in place to invert the palette both of those rely on to assist with visibility on the aging screens of live DMG (grey brick) type Game Boys.

Due to the large number of Game Boy emulators, especially those made for devices I do not own, I cannot guarantee this game will run on every emulator. I test this game on live hardware as well as a very hardware accurate emulator that allows me to debug most issues. If the game does not run on your emulator of choice, there is a discussion thread for emulator issues where I would like to hear about those issues and attempt to fix them.