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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 09, 2008
- Total Downloads: 94,691
- Downloads last week: 178
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
See if this sounds familiar. In the side-scrolling shooter Operation SpaceHog, you command a lone spacefighter fending off a massive invasion from outer space. Using the keyboard, you dodge and shoot waves of enemy spacecraft that fly in from the right. Destroyed enemies occasionally drop power-ups that boost your ship's capabilities and help even the odds. Bor-ing. But we could have lived with Operation SpaceHog's hackneyed gameplay if it weren't for the low-res graphics that would embarrass a Sega Genesis. The only halfway-interesting feature is the initial choice of pilot, each with different strengths, weaknesses, and special attacks. We have nothing against old-school shoot-'em-ups, but this is taking retro too far. Operation SpaceHog is free, at least, so there's no harm in downloading it. But if you're in search of a shooter, you'll find plenty of great free and cheap side-scrollers to entertain you more than this oinker ever will.Publisher's description
From Free Lunch Design :Spacehog is a horizontal-scrolling shoot-'em-up game for one or two players. If you ever played Gradius on Nintendo or Project X on the Amiga, you'll know what it's about. The player gets to control a small ship in a battle against horrible odds. Luckily, the player can pick up power-ups along the way and upgrade the ship. The nature of the power-ups vary from increasing ship maneuverability to adding high-tech weapons and shields.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 11 votes
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Version: Operation SpaceHog 1.1
Cons: The game started up but everything freezed/hang after 1 min...(Im using XP)
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Version: Operation SpaceHog 1.1
Summary: It is a very fun, thrilling game. Graphics is good. Great story. Nice weapon.A well developed game. The only problem is the sound it have no sound while I play it. Perhaps some incompatibility on my audio.
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Version: Operation SpaceHog 1.1
"AMAZING shoot-em-up game <3 <3 <3"
Summary: Pick from 3 characters to fight aleins. Great fun. features multiple weapion upgrades and specials. 4 different settings for game play and can become a 2 player game where you fight together with a friend on the other end of the keyboard to concor... read more >>
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Version: Operation SpaceHog 1.1
"best side-scrolling game ever!!!!!"
Summary: awesome game.
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Version: Operation SpaceHog 1.1
Summary: the gameplay starts out well, but there are few upgrades to keep it interesting and the game gets harder without the fun upgrades to the normal weapons. soon it becomes too difficult to stay alive.
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