Jeff Minter‘s classic Iridis Alpha is a weird horizontal shoot ’em up first released in 1986 through Llamasoft and Hewson Consultants.

Iridis Alpha is one of those games that may be too “out there” – too strange – for a lot of players to bother getting their heads around, but it really is worth the effort.

I’m not going to explain how to play it though. Just look at the pretty pictures…

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