Hydorah – Awesome Free Shoot-em-up

Hydorah is a gem of a game that has come out of nowhere made by someone called Locomalito. It is a real old school shoot-em-up (or shmup), i.e. it’s side scrolling and its bloody hard. I’m talking R-Type hard here, which coincidentally was one of the games Locomalito was really good at when he was a kid.

Hydorah is a mash up of all the classic shooters you can remember. R-Type, Gradius, X-multiply, Salimander, X-Out and Z-Out to name but a few. It looks awesome, has brilliant music and is free.

There are 16 levels to complete and lots of different weapons to play with. Make no mistake Hydorah is one tough game and you will find yourself playing the game again and again to get past the next level.

You can download Hydorah from filefront. It is just over 82mb in size. Sadly, Locomalito’s website is down at the moment, so you can’t get to see what else he’s up to :-(

Also there are some nice write ups of Hydorah and interviews with Locomalito himself at justonemoregame and Indiegames.