> > When first seeing the flyer many years earlier, it gave appearance that it was a > game with player flying a ship in space.....not shooting an anti-aircraft gun from > the ground. The flyer doesn't appear to show grass/ground on bottom of the monitor. > > *flyer link*
maybe there are other versions, maybe the flyer is a mockup
> > - > http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1017&image=1 > > When three Bems come down to earth, .... > - > > Whoever designed the flyer did a deceptive job even though they did have one text > description to find an escape in case vendors that purchased the game thought they > were being misled. > > The name Space Cyclone should have been "Shoot the Bems" as a title instead. It > might have piqued (ie: peeked) more interest, but marketing departments then thought > all games need the word "space" in order for game to sell which was dumb. Asteroids > did just fine without the "space" prefix. >
It kinda makes sense, the enemies come down in a spinning pattern, moving from one cloud to another before reaching the ground, it also has the lightning so I guess there are meteorological themes at least.
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