📉𝙇𝙤𝙬-𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙮 📈𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝-𝙍𝙚𝙨

Lovely to see you back!

A big enemy cruiser that's shaped like a DOOM Eternal shotgun, or rather like your typical Zentraedi battleship, shooting hot homing lava balls at you while also occasionally exploding from the rear part. They must've made a stop at a Taco Bell on the way here.

A space platform orbiting a brown poop planet, looking like a factory in space or a CTF level in Unreal Tournament '99, seen from Omega's first person POV while shooting and exploding some bits on the station and dodging little red turret blasts.

Omega Boost down a cyber-shaft, managing to narrowly get out while a giant spider-bot is chasing him but running out of the tight space to crawl around so it starts exploding and causing orange hot sparks all over.

An earlier approach to the poop planet with a very cinematic shot of a distant nebula behind and distant long light streaks announcing the arrival of the evil armada. It's the most anime shot you ever did see.

Omega Boost (PS1) (1999)

4/4

A giant kinda-pentagonal shaped space station behemoth of a ship with brownish curved sides, pokes it's giant red glass eye and sends a squad of Not-Tie-Fighters at you, creating endless opportunities for you to look awesome while you're blowing these suckers up.

After disposing of all the little cannon fodder ships, Omega rushes down in a valiant swoop downwards, unleashing a barrage of green lasers at the glass eye center which in turn is shooting red rings of plasma that are just too big to hit Mr. Boost. We see this epic conclusion of two forces battling each other from a very far away wide shot and it looks dang epic.

By now we've learned that Omega Boost likes going down huge wide cyber-shafts so this is no different, but this time he's being chased by a huge cyber ring with a big fat red laser across it, rushing downward and trying to cut Omega like an egg slicer.

Another shot at the sunset planet, this time from Omega Boost's first person, looking at the boss ship, shaped like a folded tortilla, dropping like a hundred bombs while on a path right above your head.

Omega Boost (PS1) (1999)

3/4

Mr. Boost gently descending down a seemingly endless cyber-shaft with lots of panels and greebles and light blue neon lights, making it all look like he's being digitized into the TRON world.

Omega orbiting a desert planet with a couple of hundred of real vector points for stars when he's suddenly attacked by Beta Boost, a cream and purple mech created by the AlphaCore AI, designed to destroy Omega, which it's currently attempting by shooting hot rays of plasma at him.

Omega Boost flying towards the camera over the hazelnut colored skies (yum!) while a squad of five in-formation fighter jets are flying past and above him, clocking him and ready to swing back and shoot at you.

What ensues is so intense and horrifying that I've just zoomed in for a very close look at Omega Boost while the fires and explosions around him reflect off of his chromedome armor, making him look like the Terminator endoskeleton when he's walking out of the fire.

Omega Boost (PS1) (1999)

2/4

One Lester J. Hemming piloting the super powerful Omega Boost mech, oh mega boosting through space, holding his giant laser gun forward while leaving trails of green plasma swooshes behind him. This is a seriously awesome space shooter made by Polyphony Digital of Gran Turismo fame and even though the screenshots look great, the game looks infinitely more cool in motion with a very smooth framerate and literally hundreds of motion particles and debris flying around. Also famously mentioned in Eiffel 65's My Console, right between Gran Turismo and Bloody Roar.

The Omega Boost hovering inside a cylindrical sci-fi hall with a floating white robot thing that extends its limbs and parts outwards, revealing its pulsating core and holding all of its detatched bits with sparkling hot fiery electricity, which is by the way obviously rendered in actual vector lines so they scale with the high-res graphics and look even cooler! Also this game has an insane story about an advanced AI AlphaCore that is in war with humanity (it's our fault) and sends a tampered vacuum tube with a virus into the past to infect ENIAC and ensure its existence in a predestination paradox. I KNOW, AWESOME RIGHT!?

A high-altitude air battle between mechs on a rocky desert planet during a lovely sunset, flying high above through the clouds and unleashing a barrage of missiles, Itano Circus style, with lots of explosions and shells flying all around in high detail.

A desolate desert with an impossibly devouring darkness enveloping everything in an extremely short radius so it makes the world looks like an endless desert with a pitch-black fog, only made even more terrifying by having a giant spider mech with weird cyber-growths on it and a big amber eye. The Omega Boost is rushing towards it in a heroic (and possibly stupid) fashion with like a hundred little motion particles swooshing about like sparkling wildfire.

Omega Boost (PS1) (1999)

1/4

Hahah thank you! I'll steal that for another potential Zelda screenshots post 👀

Sion the Wind Dragon Master, a short haired blonde girl wearing a green shirt and white pants, looking like a typical fantasy elf sans the ears, riding a cute green dragon with a uni-horn and a little :3 face, currently throwing a little cute whirlwind at Rubone, dizzying his dumb face.

Hero protagonist Kain the Thunder Dragon Master on his armored blue dragon, swinging his long anime hero sword at Captain Eirorna who narrowly dodges the blade thanks to her cute white fluffy dragon who is shouting "dude you almost sliced me with that thing jeeez!"

Keyaki doing a fiery flying rush with her red dragon at Kain, bonking his blue dragon's head, making him do a loud "OOOWWWWAAH".

Magical Girl Tina pointing her Sailor Moon-esque magic wand at Garnic, magically creating a larger extendo-wand, bonking the green dragon in the noggin, making it rear back and almost throw his rider off its back. Don't mess with Magical Girl Tina.

Touryuu Densetsu Elan Doreé (Saturn) (1998)

3/3

A closeup of Rubone, the scrawny old man chugging on some neon-purple glass bottle while holding his long scythe over his shoulder, thinking of new ways to mix poison with alcohol and make a stronger drink.

Magical Girl Tina riding on a fluffy orange cat who is just a giant head with ears and limbs and a tail who is actually a magical dragon called Tanumamu, looking all cute and doing an uwu face.

Hot witch sorceress Marielle just casually sideways-sitting on her pink dolphin dragon, with her stupid sexy short vest and stupid sexy anime boobs and blue witch's hat.

A closeup of Keyaki's winning pose, sneakily crouching on her red dragon, looking all stealth-like while holding her deadly daggers.

Touryuu Densetsu Elan Doreé (Saturn) (1998)

2/3

Kain the Thunder Dragon Master (seen on the right, riding his blue dragon) and the missing king's son leads the knights on a quest to defeat the menacing Kaiser Dragon but is temporarily distracted by Levie, the Dark Dragon Master and the guardian of space and time who has tracked down Kaiser Dragon to this time and seeks to destroy it as well. Your typical misunderstanding that results in a whole episode of fighting each other to see how strong they are and then realize they're on the same side so they join forces and then kiss.

The peace of the grand palace with a huge red-carpeted staircase leading to a massive angelic statue is disturbed by the clash between Eriorna the Light Dragon Master, the blonde Captain of the Royal Guard riding a cute pink dragon, currently being slash attacked by Keyaki the Fire Dragon Master, a dark haired kunoichi wielding two daggers and riding a fuchsia colored spiky dragon, seeking the Kaiser Dragon's tail to use it to cure her incurable disease, which I'm assuming is what the lower right UI indicator saying "D-POWER LOW!!" is all about. That's alright Keyaki, everyone's got low D-power now and then.

Rubone, whose name sounds like a Pokemon, is a scrawny, nasty man wearing purple robes and something like a kofia hat and is the Poison Dragon Master, riding a menacing black dragon with a huge bulging head, looking more like a whale or an Evangelion angel with many flat teeth. The dragon is doing a sonic wave attack at his opponent Garnic and his green dragon, meaning doing a shouting attack and not throwing Sonic the Hedgehog who's just waving at someone.

A beautiful orange desert sunset is the romantic stage for Marielle the hot blonde witchy magician riding a cute pink dolphin-like dragon who is shooting huge pink hearts at Gulf the Earth Dragon Master, hitting both him and his earthy brown dragon right in the face with her unrelenting love.

Touryuu Densetsu Elan Doreé (Saturn) (1998)

1/3

Link looking wide eyed and startled while looking at something off camera (it's a big schlong) and his little pirate friend is wiping his drool from his mouth.

A lady in a red dress looking very annoyed as she's pointing at Link's fairy friend, saying "This fairy is very annoying. Also you just barged into my house so I'd like you to leave." Link just stands there like he's peed his pants.

A closeup of a cute little seagull as it's flying past Tetras beautiful pirate ship, gliding on the winds and minding its business while a little pirate guy is hungrily looking at the seagull, trying to figure out how to catch it and cook it for dinner.

Another instance of Link just barging into people's houses, entering a very cozy room that's got a bed, some house plants, a kitchen sink and some bottles, a nice little stove with a tea kettle on it and a little shelf with books. The owner is just very confused at the sight of Link just standing there, looking like he's just peed his pants.

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (NDS) (2007)

3/3

Link looking all drowsy and annoyed while his pirate captain Tetra is yelling his elvish ears off. She's looking very angry and annoyed but Link just wants to goof off.

A concerned citizen with a beautiful young Richard Gere hairdo and little goatee is looking heckin' concerned, standing near a cool looking boat and unloading his family history onto Link and Link is like "dude I'm just a kid, what are we even doing rn"

So Link goes on to do Link things, which is basically just messing around with chickens, picking one up and throwing it around, being a real Chicken Chaser. Oh wait, that's a different game.

Sometimes harassing chickens can be lucrative because oh boy Link just found a green rupee and is excitedly holding it up in a tadadadaaaaa way.

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (NDS) (2007)

2/3

Dopey and cute Wind Waker Link sitting atop a ship cannon as if to maybe compensate for something, looking real happy (I bet) and looking towards the endless ocean horizon for his next adventure while a little fluffy seagull is flying very close to Link's face, looking very surprised and startled by the size of Link's "cannon".

The adventure kicks them in the butt when a ghost ship called the Ghost Ship shows up from a sudden mist, looking very silly with its bow adorned with a giant golden skull with demon horns. It even has little golden claw hands holding two super powerful laser lanterns for maximum party effect.

Link entering a grown up establishment meant for serving alcoholic beverages, startling the plump bartender with his elaborate hairdo, Hitler mustache and puffy red cheeks. He shoos Link off, Link calls him fat and leaves, bartender discovers the Phantom Hourglass and the sands of time and travels to our near past and the rest is history.

A cute redhead shopkeep with round glasses showing off her merch, seemingly especially crafted for adventurers such as Link with bombs, a shield, a Zora scale, power gem and such. Link is just standing there baffled at what all of this is, looking like he just peed himself.

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (NDS) (2007)

1/3

Lau Chan not wanting to be the punching (or kicking) bag for everyone, finally getting his comeuppance by doing a flying backflip kick at Kage, managing to swipe his ninja mask and headband off his face, bringing deep, generational disgrace to his family and clan.

A beautiful orange sunset with some rocks and trees and grass and all that nice nature stuff, serving as the backdrop for Jacky Bryant kicking Dural's ass, whose metallic body is reflecting some of that warm light of the sunset, making her robo-skin look ever so slightly more human.

The kicker has become the kickee as Sarah finally finds her brother in some urban back alley, sending him flying in a twirly fashion.

The battle of the ages, silver Dural versus golden Dural, fighting underwater at some sunken ruins, recreating that epic underwater bar fight in hit movie Top Secret! starring Val Kilmer.

Virtua Fighter 2 (Saturn) (1995)

3/3

Jacky Bryant, professional target for his brainwashed sister is currently kicking Lau Chan right in the face, sending him flying in the air. Man, Lau really has it hard this time around, everyone seems to be kicking him in the face.

Robo babe Dural visting a tropical beach and doing a jumping headbutt attack, landing right on top of Jeffry's crotch, phasing through it and possibly doing irreparable damage to his groin area. Jeffry is just lying on the floor, looking like he honestly doesn't mind the experience.

Same beach, same Jeffry, but this time falling with his full weight while holding poor Lion upside down, about to body slam him. Thankfully, Lion decided to wear his orange life preserver jacket so he'll probably be fine.

Old drunk man Shun Di forcefully shoving his finger in Jacky's face and asking him to smell it with Jacky, visibly disgusted, tries to backstep while loosing most of his life energy.

Virtua Fighter 2 (Saturn) (1995)

2/3

A drunken old man kicking a chef in the face for refusing to serve him drunken chicken (zuìjī) with extra alcohol in it. Of course I'm talking about old man Shun Di who is fighting in the drunken kung-fu style, somehow managing to land a blow amongst all the tripping and wobbling, kicking legendary chef and martial arts man Lau Chan right in the noggin.

Action star Pai Chan in her pink qipao grabbing French heartthrob and wealthy boy Lion Rafale by his arm from the back, managing to dislodge his torso from his lower half while trying to throw him. It was then discovered that Lion Rafale was made of cake.

A grand Colosseum under a purple stormy sky is the battleground for Sarah Bryant, college student turned brainwashed assassin programmed to kill her brother, and Kage-Maru, a ninja bent on revenge at the bad guys killing his father and turning his mother into a mimetic-polyalloy silver robo babe. Sarah is at this moment doing a running neck breaker on Kage, proving that professional wrestling is superior to Hagakure-ryū Jū-Jutsu.

Chrome robo babe Dural doing a graceful backflip kick with the various mishmashed textures of snowy mountains assembled in the background, creating a surreal look on this chilly winter morning. Canadian professional wrestler Wolf Hawkfield is just standing there, baffled at what he's seeing right now.

Virtua Fighter 2 (Saturn) (1995)

1/3

No worries and feel better! 💖

Flying the Tonka® Tail Duster, a space vehicle with a huge tube-like attachment under it designed to gather green glowing fuel crystals left by the trail of a passing comet. Being a Tonka® space station vehicle operator seems so cool!

The Tonka® Bio-Harvester currently being crunched up by a giant purple man-eater plant while it was on its way to gather light-blue space berries in this hydroponics space lab. It's basically the plot of System Shock.

The Tonka® Space Spinnaker flying through the housing quarters (which in this case is just a hostile, neon-green lit space tunnel with lots of disjointed giant, thick cables being cut and flailing about with white-hot electricity sparking from its ends, looking like some kind of eldritch horror. I'm starting to think the Tonka® safety regulations aren't all that safe.

After failing all of your many maintenance tasks, you are thrown into the Tonka® Sporting Arena, driving the Tonka® Terra Racer, strapped into a four-wheel deathtrap and forced to participate in a death-race for the amusement of that one housing building and its twelve inhabitants, driving through a futuristic race track filled with hazards and smashing crushers. I'm starting to think that whomever is running this Tonka® space station might just be treating all of its populace as toys or something. 👀

Tonka® Space Station (PS1) (2000)

2/2

Chasing a runaway satellite through a space wormhole tunnel thing while dodging space debris and asteroids and stuff with your trusty yellow Tonka® Wing with lots of yellow and black stripes all over the starship, as is the Tonka® way. Did you know that Tonka® comes from the Dakota-Sioux word “Tanka” meaning “great” or “big", which you may have heard in the Kevin Costner vehicle Dances With Wolves or "Šuŋgmánitu-Tȟáŋka ób wačhí".

The Tonka® space station has a housing level 1 building that's just a concrete slab with windows, sticking out of a pentagonal platform, just a building sticking out in space.

Crushing some loose cave walls with your drill while driving the Tonkonium Extraction Vehicle or the TEV while standing dangerously close to three crates with huge and adorable illustrations of a dynamite painted on them, probably signifying that they're completely safe to handle and throw around because not even dynamite can damage them. 30 seconds later you blow up just by scraping the nails on the wood paneling.

Driving your Tonka® Arachnarover, a yellow spider-like bot in a very Crash Bandicoot way, towards the camera while avoiding the crumbling cave and jumping over lava-filled pits, emitting a beautiful and deadly red glow from the bowels of the crust with a little research equipment node with a blue crystal on top is tantalizingly beckoning you to attempt a jump over the maws of hell.

Tonka® Space Station (PS1) (2000)

1/2

Two fellas wearing green, one is Andore the giant wrestler who thinks he's stepped on some poop on the way to this sandy construction site so he asks his opponent El Gado to take a look. El Gado, being a weirdo but very physically flexible, bends down in the most awkward way, bending one of his legs back like a scorpion's tail while shoving his head down in the dirt and looking at Andore's shoes. El Gado is happy to report that there is no poop on Andore's shoes, rather says his shoes are made of poop and thusly the battle ensues.

Following the escapades of sicko weird man El Gado, we see Edi. E. doing a trust exercise where he's falling butt first into his partner while El Gado uses this opportunity to whip his knife out and point it at Edi's ass. The big burly stone statue across from Downing Street watches all this unfold and says "yup, that's me... you're probably wondering how I got to this point..."

A huge yellow tank is the backdrop of a fiery fight between Rolento and Hagar, with the special forces beret wearing soldier doing a flaming stick attack, exploding it in Haggar's face who wasn't informed that we're using flammable props and life threatening apparatus in this wrestling match.

Shortly thereafter, Haggar realizes this isn't a wrestling match at all when Rolento hops into a freakin' helicopter and guns down the (now forever former) mayor in a barrage of bullets, shooting him in the back while he's running for dear life, inspiring the folks at NetherRealm to up their game in the new Mortal Kombat titles.

Final Fight Revenge (Saturn) (2000)

2/2

Mayor of Metro City and former wrestler Mike Haggar going to the streets to take matters into his own bare, muscly hands (and save his daughter Jessica, AGAIN), confronts the corrupt representative of the police, one Edi. E. who is wearing his alternate salmon and red uniform, expensive gold watch and firing his gun while Haggar is fighting with his words, holding a mic and dropping mad verses.

Guy (who is a ninja, and a guy) grabbing Sodom, the massive fanboy of anything and everything Japanese who looks like a Samurai football player, twisting and twirling him in ways both terrible and tantalizing and throwing him on the ground.

Smoking hot babe and trans icon Poison walking the night streets of Metro City and whipping little fuck boys like Damnd, making him blink and flash from all that whippage.

A nice park across from Downing Street where Rolento F. Schugerg (I never knew that was his full name) is currently hanging Cody with a thin yellow steel cable, awakening something in the blonde street fighter and giving him a boner.

Final Fight Revenge (Saturn) (2000)

1/2

Oh yeah, this game has always been clunky, further worsened by the awkward camera that's always kind of downward tilted (seemingly because the walls are fake 3D projected like DOOM or maybe voxels, not sure, but there's no ceiling). It's still playable but could use lots of QoL improvements.

Conrad Hart hiding behind yet more space-crates while a couple of Morphs and a little robot on tank-like caterpillar tracks are shooting at him. Conrad, not settling for being a sensible, rational person starts yelling "LEARN TO SHOOT!"

Conrad finds himself in a bit of a bind while tomb raiding when a stone golem comes to life and decides to hulk smash his squishy human head.

Conrad teleporting into a safe human base of operations, slowly fading in from ethereal blue light while the completely untextured soldier in the room gets startled from this eerie apparition.

After doing enough damage and mischief, Conrad decides for one final escape sequence with a cool looking aerodynamic spaceship, flying through some purple and orage blobs and goo while alien ships are shooting and flying at him. Alas, the camera angle is so awkward that 90% of the screen is the floor and Conrad's ship so you can barely see what's coming at you from up ahead.

Fade to Black (PS1) (1996)

4/4

Our valiant hero aims his gun at a chef who is raising his arms in the air, saying he's just an innocent chef while his dirty apron is all messy with some kind of orange stains. You've managed to sneak in Cheetos on New Alcatraz, the supermax prison on the Moon, AND you're a chef!? Unlikely story.

Conrad being surrounded by futuristic computer panels and green monitors of all kinds, shapes and sizes so he's jumping joyfully because he's a massive nerd.

Conrad standing still while looking at a row of little robot-spaceship-things all stacked one behind the other like a robot-spaceship-centipede while a Morph in a full white armor suit with spiky arms and a shoulder cannon is running at him with murderous intent.

A fierce battle between the human resistance and three Morph soldiers as both sides have barricaded themselves behind some space-crates while the human soldiers are yelling "We're surrounded! Call for backup!" Conrad has just arrived in the room via a hoverlift from the floor below and is looking confused, thinking about maybe just swooping back down until things are settled here one way or another.

Fade to Black (PS1) (1996)

3/4

Conrad doing an awkward aim with his gun where the camera focuses on the top of his head where two little green polygons are visible as a little high-res glitch while a menacing gold and silver spider bot is quickly approaching, his red glowing eyes targeted by Conrads targeting sights.

Our hero using a recharge station that makes him float in mid air while creating an egg-like wireframe field around him, charging up all of his gadgets wirelessly. Wireless recharging, what a time to be alive!

Conrad being the savior of mankind by hiding behind a submersible looking vehicle, trying to evade a Morph soldier who can clearly see him and is kinda wondering if this guy is dumb or is playing some kind of trick on him.

Conrad doing a surprisingly precise shot at a Morph officer after he's seen the alien kill a couple of humans who are now lying dead on the left side of the room. The Morph is yelling "Pathetic human! How could you dare..." Oh but Conrad dares. Conrad dares indeed!

Fade to Black (PS1) (1996)

2/4

Our slightly dopey looking hero, Conrad Hart, still wearing his brown jacket and blue jeans 50 years later, now with an added hole on his scraped knee.

Two alien Morphs, looking like a couple of buff green reptilian cyclists wearing black spandex to better show off their pecks and buttocks, are currently aiming their guns at Conrad who was just trying to walk past the toll gate without paying so he's just trying to explain this little misunderstanding while waving his gun around, not helping himself one bit.

Mr. Hart finds himself in a very alien environment full of purple and blue bulbous growths on the walls and a panel connected to a cylindrical force field guarding a yellow floating head with hair that looks like french fries and the serene smile of the Mona Lisa. This mofo looks like the decapitated head of a 90s CG attempt at a photorealistic Bart Simpson or some distant cousin of Frylock from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Conrad piloting a spherical submarine kind of vehicle but it looks like it's just a hovercraft with some engine protrusions on the sides like warp coil nacelles. It's flying through more red and orange bulbous growths looking like it's trudging through some bean soup, with a green glass tunnel connecting the side walls.

Fade to Black (PS1) (1996)

1/4

Adult Link standing precariously on a wooden hanging bridge over some lava, looking at the cool hot ninja wearing blue spandex and wrapped in cloth all around. That of course is Sheik, the Sheikah Warrior, mainly called that because of them sheik-sheik-sheiking their tight firm booty which is coincidentally on full display here.

Link trusty friend, Epona the horse with her cute eyes and white mane, standing in the middle of Hyrule Field in this calm blue night, rearing up to try and boop her snoot on the moon because she's not very smart and thinks the moon is close by.

Zelda, wearing a white an purple outfit and headdress with the Triforce emblem on it (she's a big fan of the band) who is a princess, and there's a legend about her, is being hurriedly taken on horseback by her trusty bodyguard Impa. The princess is looking back as they rush past Link as she's asking Impa "who is that dopey looking idiot standing in the middle of the road?"

But Link doesn't have time to be offended by being called an idiot because the night has fallen and the undead have risen from their graves, now roaming the field with their evil red eyes and nasty long pink fingernails and toenails, though they at least have the decency to wear some ancient Roman skirts (which I just learned are called pteruges - the leathery strips forming the skirt or kilt). Navi the annoying fairy is hanging above one of the skeleton's heads, yelling his rotting brains out while the zombo is thinking "I didn't rise from the grave to listen to this bullshit."

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) (1998)

2/2

The serene and beautiful Kokiri Forest with a river that goes around a giant tree stump, now refurbished as a building though I can't imagine it being built per safety regulations, seeing as it's an obvious fire hazard and can't imagine the termite problems they are having. Anyway, imagine if everyone in the village was Peter Pan and were eternally kids, just moping around and building this village with clearly no sense for style nor function so it's all scattered around with dangerous hanging bridges, hopping platforms over rushing river and no regard for any safety protocols.

A Dutch angle of Link in his green tunic and elven sleeping cap, being startled in the dead of night by the evil Ganondorf (meaning Ganon Village) because he's a provincial yokel, rearing his black horse with demon red eyes, smiling at Link like "look at my ride little boy, I'm so rich so I fill the void in my soul by buying expensive horses and armor, and horse armor, but I still can't do anything about my receding hairline".

Talon the bald man sleeping in his barn looking like if Wolverine grew older, lost his hair but grew mighty mutton chops and still had even more arm hair than before, surrounded by all of his chickens, pooping all over him.

The witch Kotake, looking like a chameleon with her big nose and bulging white eyes and white hair wrapped in a bun. She's wearing all sorts of jewelry on her forhead, ears, neck, is clearly into crystals and homeopathy. I can only imagine what her and her twin sister's household must've been like when Ganon was growing up there, no wonder he's all sorts of wrong in the head.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) (1998)

1/2

A silhouette of a mountain range barely gives us a glimpse of our helicopter as it's flying upwards towards the beautiful purple Windows 95 desktop wallpaper skies, chasing after a six-pronged UFO thing defended by a red force field while you're targeting all of its ding dong prongs and preparing to shoot an Itano Circus of missiles.

Flying through a dark cyberscape of greebles, circutry and metal arches, covered in turrets with red lights with a whole squadron of alien ships shooting great balls of fire at you, making this whole scene look like something out of the grimmest, most depressing parts of The Matrix trilogy.

A dimly red lit chamber filled with neon purple lasers and glowing plasma orbs sweeping through the area like a futuristic museum's security system, with the sexy slender helicopter dressed in a catsuit trying to steal the legendary diamond.

After all your alien hunting shenanigans, you find yourself in a Skynet created hellscape, collapsing and burning parts of pipes and metal panels all around you with gushes of fire and lava pouring through the cracks, giving the Viper the perfect opportunity to experience your typical cliched escape sequence that he dreamed about since he was a wee 'copter lad.

Viper (PS1) (1998)

3/3

What every helicopter action game needs is a bonus level that makes you fly over a damp sewer railway and through glowing green rings, making you feel like some kind of Superman 64 or something.

A giant alien worm thing just Shai-Huludin', doing its thing, yelling at the sunset-lit clouds like an old man while a red glowing UFO is flying above it, the worm probably recognizing it as its momma and yelling to get some regurgitated food in its tum tums.

Turns out the UFO belongs to the alien invaders (who would've thought) so you decide to plast it with woop woop waves of purple wave energy as you're chasing it through the rocky canyons toward the setting sun texture.

A dark, fleshy cave with a single light shaft shining from above, illuminating a giant, beautiful, translucent, ghost-like alien insect with four wings, looking like a scene right out of Dark Souls but if the Chosen Undead was a helicopter.

Viper (PS1) (1998)

2/3

Viper, the super attack helicopter vehicle, the only kind of weapon that is able to repel an alien invasion because choppers are cool! We see the Viper flying through a future metropolis with hovercrafts, sweeping spotlights and moody streetlights illuminating the roads below. This is a on rails shooter that gives you some freedom on how you can fly around on said rails but it's so damn dark and edgy looking that most of the times you can barely see what's happening. The dark, crunchy textures and pretty skyboxes kinda remind me of MDK a bit, but that's where the comparisons end.

Flying through a purple lit canyon above some rushing rapids with a fallen tree creating a bridge over said canyon, possibly for some other adventurer that's playing a third person platformer adventure game while you just have to fly under this inconveniently placed tree while also trying not to get blinded by the scorching yellow sun blasting your eyes.

Flying into an underground maze of high-tech tunnels while I'm hacking the camera to make the game look more cool by positioning it on the side of the Viper, like a third person over the shoulder helicopter action game where you shoot zombies and rescue the president's daughter, but this time flying through dark tunnels and shooting at giant evil bipedal mechs.

A weird tripoded green machine thing blocking the way in this purple cyber-tunnel, but the Viper ain't playin' as it's shooting its rockets at the cyber-Shuma-Gorath and blowing up little polygonal chunks out of its glowing eye.

Viper (PS1) (1998)

1/3