Red Alarm

1995 · Virtual Boy · D Wonderland Inc.

Red Alarm is a 1995 shoot 'em up video game developed by T&E Soft and published by Nintendo for the Virtual Boy. Released as a launch title for the console, it requires the player to pilot a space fighter and defeat the army of a malevolent artificial intelligence called KAOS. The game takes inspiration from the 1993 title Star Fox, and it is one of the few third-party titles for the Virtual Boy. Unlike most of the console's games, Red Alarm features three-dimensional (3D) polygonal graphics. However, hardware constraints limited the visuals to bare wire-frame models, similar to those of the 1980 arcade game Battlezone. Reviewers characterized Red Alarm's graphics as confusing, but certain publications praised it as one of the most enjoyable Virtual Boy titles. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.