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Raptor: Call of the Shadows and its futuristic world are ready to challenge your flying skills. Set in a futuristic world, your missions, as a mercenary, consist of flying the Raptor, a sophisticated combat craft and face the MegaCorps competitors through fierce air fights on diverse environments.

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Game info:

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Game title:Raptor: Call of the Shadows
Platform:MS-DOS
Author (released):Cygnus Multimedia Productions (1994)
Genre:Action, ShooterMode:Single-player
Design:Scott Host, Jim Molinets, Rich Fleider, Tim Neveu
Music:Matthew Murphy, Paul Radek, Robert Prince
Game manual:manual.pdf

File size:

2601 kB
Download: not available (stream only)

Game size:

3508 kB
Recommended emulator:DOSBox
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Raptor: Call of the Shadows (often Raptor for short) is a 2D raster graphics vertical scrolling shoot 'em up single player game for the x86 PC originally written for MS-DOS, by Cygnus Studios (which has since changed its name to Mountain King Studios). It was published by Apogee Software on April 1, 1994.
'In the future a mercenary flying the [advanced] Raptor, is sent on interplanetary missions to [destroy] top competitors of MegaCorps.'
The game is divided into three 'sectors': Bravo Sector, Tango Sector, and Outer Regions, all of which have nine sub-missions called 'waves', making for a total of 27 levels (9 per sector). The full version of Raptor allows players to start out in any of the three campaigns, though playing them in order helps the player to more easily accumulate money for weapon and shield upgrades.
Once a player beats a Sector, they can replay it with all the money and weapons that they have accumulated. The difficulty is increased when the player does this however, e.g. if the player beats the Sector on Rookie and replays it, the difficulty will be set to Veteran.
As in all shoot 'em up games, enemies must be shot and destroyed. While flying enemies are the most numerous, many ground targets (buildings, vehicles, turrets) can be destroyed as well. Bosses appear at the end of each wave or even halfway through the later, more difficult waves. For each target destroyed the player earns credits. The amount of credits earned per enemy destroyed is usually proportional to how tough or dangerous it is, with some of them dropping additional credit bonuses. The Raptor jet is particularly durable compared to player-controlled craft of other scrolling shooters, which can be destroyed with a few hits. However, there are no 'lives' so the game is over when the player dies, although the player can reload a recently saved game.
The player starts out with only the default machine guns, and will eventually be able to buy or collect more weapons using a credit and purchase system menu before starting or after finishing a wave. There are two major categories of weapons: the first type is always active (all carried weapons of this type will always fire simultaneously whenever player shoots), and the second type is selectable. During gameplay, when firing, only the currently selected selectable weapon will fire, though the currently selected weapon can be dynamically switched to deal with the appropriate situation. Some selectable weapons can only hit airborne targets, others only ground targets, while a few can hit both. Some of the more unique weapons in Raptor, compared to other shoot 'em ups, are the two types of selectable auto-tracking turrets. Other notable weapons are three selectable cannons with expensive prices, that fire continuous instant beams capable of penetrating and destroying multiple targets in one shot.
In its own category is the megabomb, a one-time use weapon which destroys everything on the screen including enemy projectiles, except for the toughest enemies (such as bosses) in which case it will damage them. It can either be picked up or purchased; a maximum of 5 megabombs can be carried at any given time.
The Raptor jet is protected by 100 points of regular shielding, which regenerate extremely slowly, when the player isn't firing (except in the Elite difficulty). There is also another kind of shields, called phase shields, which add another 100 points of shielding. Unlike regular shielding, phase shields do not recharge (unless the player collects a regular shield power up). Up to 5 layers of Phase Shields can be purchased in the shop. However, it is possible to go beyond 5 layers if Phase Shield powerups are picked up in-battle.
Last but not least, the player can purchase a single utility, the Ion Scanner to measure the energy and damage meter of any boss confronted.

More details about this game can be found on Wikipedia.org.

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This ver­sion of Raptor: Call of the Shadows was de­sig­ned for per­so­nal com­pu­ters with o­pe­ra­ting sys­tem MS-DOS (Mi­cro­soft Disk O­pe­ra­ting Sys­tem), which was o­pe­ra­ting sys­tem de­ve­lo­ped by Mi­cro­soft in 1981. It was the most wi­de­ly-used o­pe­ra­ting sys­tem in the first half of the 1990s. MS-DOS was sup­plied with most of the IBM com­pu­ters that pur­cha­sed a li­cen­se from Mi­cro­soft. Af­ter 1995, it was pu­s­hed out by a gra­phi­cal­ly mo­re ad­van­ced sys­tem - Win­dows and its de­ve­lop­ment was ce­a­sed in 2000. At the ti­me of its grea­test fa­me, se­ve­ral thou­sand ga­mes de­sig­ned spe­ci­fi­cal­ly for com­pu­ters with this sys­tem we­re cre­a­ted. To­day, its de­ve­lop­ment is no lon­ger con­ti­nue and for e­mu­la­tion the free DOSBox e­mu­la­tor is most of­ten used. Mo­re in­for­ma­ti­on about MS-DOS operating system can be found here.

Available online emulators:

5 different online emulators are available for Raptor: Call of the Shadows. These emulators differ not only in the technology they use to emulate old games, but also in support of various game controllers, multiplayer mode, mobile phone touchscreen, emulation speed, absence or presence of embedded ads and in many other parameters. For maximum gaming enjoyment, it's important to choose the right emulator, because on each PC and in different Internet browsers, the individual emulators behave differently. The basic features of each emulator available for this game Raptor: Call of the Shadows are summarized in the following table:

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Raptor: Call of the Shadows
Developer(s)Cygnus Studios
Publisher(s)Apogee Software
Platform(s)DOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Mac OS
ReleaseApril 1, 1994 (DOS)
January 29, 2011 (Mac OS)[1]
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Raptor: Call of the Shadows is a 2D vertical-scrollersingle player game developed by Cygnus Studios and published by Apogee Software. Its working title was 'Mercenary 2029'.[2] It was released on April 1, 1994 for DOS.

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Plot[edit]

'In the future a mercenary flying the [advanced] Raptor, is sent on interplanetary missions to [destroy] top competitors of MegaCorps.'[3]

Episodes[edit]

Raptor gameplay, Wave 4 of Bravo Sector.

The game is divided into three 'sectors': Bravo Sector, Tango Sector, and Outer Regions, all of which have nine sub-missions called 'waves', making for a total of 27 levels (9 per sector). The full version of Raptor allows players to start out in any of the three campaigns, though playing them in order helps the player to more easily accumulate money for weapon and shield upgrades.

Once a player beats a sector, they can replay it with all the money and weapons that they have accumulated. The difficulty is increased when the player does this however, e.g. if the player beats the sector on Rookie and replays it, the difficulty will be set to Veteran.

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The Bravo Sector is the most 'generic' episode, with few features distinguishing each level. Starting at the coast and then moving inland, most of the targets are military bases and installations, and much of the terrain is barren land, with the occasional forests and rivers. Large oil silos feature prominently in the early waves, and a refinery (tank farm) is found in the second-last wave. In the final wave, the player flies offshore to destroy the Lithos Petroleum rig. (However, there is no background on why Lithos is the enemy, other than being suggested as a competitor of MegaCorps.)

The Tango Sector is more distinctive, with each level following a different theme. These include a large water/chemical plant, farmland, jungle, city, and airbase. At the end, in the jungle after destroying an ancient temple, the player has to defeat a huge aircraft which splits into three modules.

In Outer Regions, the player travels from different planets; they consist of a lunar body (moon), a red planet similar to Mars, an ice world, a volcanic world, and finally a space station.

Tango Sector and Outer Regions each have a special 'night wave' with its own theme music. The night level in the Tango Sector is a well-illuminated city in Wave Eight, while the Outer Regions' is the 'dark side' of the lunar body in Wave Three.

Gameplay[edit]

Enemies and credits[edit]

Enemies are destroyed purely for money. Most enemies move in pre-determined paths. Some enemies will try to crash into the player. Turrets also aim to hit the player. There are no obstacles to avoid (except the enemy ships themselves). While flying enemies are the most numerous, many ground targets (buildings, ships, vehicles, turrets) can be destroyed as well.

Bosses appear at the end of each wave or even halfway through the later, more difficult waves. In the Outer Regions, the bosses are ground bases where the player has to take out their various component weapons.

For each target destroyed the player earns credits. The amount of credits earned per enemy destroyed is usually proportional to how tough or dangerous it is, with some of them dropping additional credit bonuses.

The Raptor jet is particularly durable compared to player-controlled craft of other scrolling shooters, which can be destroyed with a few hits. However, there are no 'lives' so the game is over when the player dies, although the player can reload a recently saved game.

The player can decide to end a level prematurely, in which case they will lose all the money acquired since starting the level. Damage sustained will remain though, as will collected weapons - as such, one technique to rapidly collect money is to start a level that has an expensive, collectible weapon at the start, collect the weapon, quit and start over. After a couple dozen iterations or so, selling the gathered weapons will provide enough cash to buy most 'equipped' weapons, at least the basic auto-tracking turret, and a couple of phase shields - enough to handle most levels as a Rookie.

Weapons and shields[edit]

The player (there are four playable characters) starts out with only the default machine guns, and will eventually be able to buy or collect more weapons using a credit and purchase system menu before starting or after finishing a wave.

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There are two major categories of weapons: the first type is always active (all carried weapons of this type will always fire simultaneously whenever the player shoots), and the second type is selectable. During gameplay, when firing, only the currently selected selectable weapon will fire, though the currently selected weapon can be dynamically switched to deal with the appropriate situation. Some selectable weapons can only hit airborne targets, others only ground targets, while a few can hit both.

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Some of the more original weapons in Raptor, compared to other shoot 'em ups, are the two types of selectable auto-tracking turrets. Other notable weapons are three selectable cannons with expensive prices, that fire continuous instant beams capable of penetrating and destroying multiple targets in one shot.

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In its own category is the megabomb, a one-time use weapon which destroys everything on the screen including enemy projectiles, except for the toughest enemies (such as bosses) in which case it will damage them. It can either be picked up or purchased; a maximum of 5 megabombs can be carried at any given time.

The Raptor jet is protected by 100 points of regular shielding, which regenerate extremely slowly, when the player isn't firing (except in the Elite difficulty, where it doesn't regenerate). There is also another kind of shield, called the phase shield, that adds another 100 points of shielding. Unlike regular shielding, phase shields do not recharge (unless the player collects a regular shield power up). Up to 5 layers of Phase Shields can be purchased in the shop. However, it is possible to go beyond 5 layers if Phase Shield powerups are picked up in-battle. When the regular shielding goes lower than 25%, the ship starts taking 'physical' damage: each enemy weapon impact will cause an equipped weapon to be destroyed, starting with the currently equipped selectable weapon.

Last but not least, the player can purchase a single utility, the Ion Scanner to measure the energy and damage meter of any boss confronted.

The craft's firepower cannot be upgraded gradually, the best the player can do is pick up or buy cheaper weapons and hope to save up for the expensive ones. Since selling a weapon will only earn back half of its credits, this means that many players try to hold out until they can afford the most expensive weapons, instead of buying medium weapons as a stopgap.

Reception[edit]

Computer Gaming World's Chuck Miller in December 1993 described Raptor as 'Apogee's most professional and competent release' since Wolfenstein 3D, with 'exceptional' VGA graphics, concluding that 'action aficionados will find it a holiday treasure'.[4] He again praised the game in June 1994, reporting 'I have not been as hooked on an action title since Sidewinder' in 1988 and concluding that it was 'the best shareware title to arrive since' Doom.[5] Scott Miller estimates that the game eventually sold between 80,000 or 90,000 copies.[6]

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The game was reviewed in 1994 in Dragon #208 by Sandy Petersen in the 'Eye of the Monitor' column. Petersen gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.[7] Gametrailers.com and ScrewAttack have labeled it as one of their 'Top Ten 2-D Shooters.'[8]

Raptor is noted[by whom?] for being particularly difficult to start out. Although the player can skip right to the Tango Sector and Outer Regions before completing the Bravo Sector, this is almost impossible in practice, particularly since the player needs a fully armed ship in order to survive the levels of the Outer Regions.[citation needed]

Ports[edit]

There is a shareware version available for the DOS and Windows ports of this game which includes the first episode, the Bravo Sector.

The full version can still be bought online today, though Apogee sells only the DOS version while Mountain King Studios sells only the Windows version (see below). A download of the full version will be provided, as Raptor is no longer available for purchase as a standalone physical product.

There was also at one point a Linux version offered for sale.[9] A free and open-source clone, Kraptor, also exists.

Differences between the DOS and Windows versions[edit]

In 1999, Mountain King Studios re-released Raptor as a native Windows program. The original Windows version of Raptor features slightly improved graphics and audio, force feedback controller support and a number of other very minor changes. The game itself remains the same between both versions, and many of the glitches and secrets are retained. However the Windows version suffers from several issues with the controls which do not exist in the MS-DOS version. When using the keyboard in the Windows version, the player ship's mobility is restricted to half of its normal speed, which makes gameplay much more difficult. If the player chooses to use the mouse to control his ship, he is instead unable to move to the extreme right side of the screen.

DotEmu 2010 Edition[edit]

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This version of the game, ported by DotEmu, is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 32 and 64 bit. It contains the game music as WAV files, digitized from the original MIDI soundtrack. The game allows to play in several different resolutions (640 × 400, 960 × 600 and 1280 × 800). The nostalgics can still play with the original rendering, but filtered graphics are also available. Graphics may only be displayed in multiples of the original 320x200 DOS resolution, and essentially remain untouched. There is no support for varying aspect ratios or force feedback controllers.

iOS[edit]

Raptor was released for iOS on December 20, 2010 by BlitWise Productions. It has all the same features as the MS-DOS and Windows versions. The controls are different, using your finger to guide the ship around the screen or using the Accelerometer tilt function to guide the ship. Switching weapons or using the megabomb requires you to tap the icon on the upper corners of the iPhone.

Apple App Store[edit]

Raptor was released on the Apple App Store on January 19, 2011 by DotEmu. It is a port of the 2010 Edition for Windows and boasts the same features.

DotEmu 2015 Edition[edit]

This new version was released on January 13, 2015 on Steam. It is based on the previous 2010 Edition, with the addition of achievements and Cloud saving.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^'Raptor Call of the Shadows 2010 ed'. Retro Maniac. No. 3. April 2011. p. 76.
  2. ^Joe Siegler (November 20, 2000). 'New Version of the Apogee / 3DR FAQ Online'. 3D Realms. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  3. ^'3D Realms Site: Raptor: Call of the Shadows'. 3D Realms. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  4. ^Miller, Chuck (December 1993). 'Stocking Up On Holiday Joy With Our Holiday Shareware Picks'. Computer Gaming World. pp. 86, 88. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  5. ^Miller, Chuck (June 1994). 'Shareware Showcase'. Best of the Rest. Computer Gaming World. pp. 112, 114.
  6. ^Edwards, Benj (2009-08-21). '20 Years Of Evolution: Scott Miller And 3D Realms'. Gamasutra. UBM. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  7. ^Petersen, Sandy (August 1994). 'Eye of the Monitor'. Dragon (208): 61–66.
  8. ^GameTrailers: ScrewAttack Top Ten 2-d Shooters, ScrewAttack's Top 10.
  9. ^'The Linux Game Tome: Raptor - Call of the Shadows'. on The Linux Game Tome

External links[edit]

  • Raptor: Call of the Shadows at MobyGames
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