Guardic

Infobox VG| title = Guardic


developer = Compile
publisher = Compile
designer = Pac Fujishima
engine =
released = 1986
genre = Arcade
modes = Single player
ratings = N/A
platforms = MSX
media = tape, diskette
requirements =
input = keyboard, joystick

nihongo|"Guardic"|ガーディック|Gādikku is an action game for the MSX computer created and developed by Pac Fujishima while working for Compile, the same creators of the long-running Zanac series.

However, Guardic is unique from its more straightforward cousin (and other scrolling shooters) by allowing the player to choose stages, connected by a maze with a hundred of interconnected stages. Each stage is a not-scrollable single screen and had 1 to 3 groups of different enemies. The player is allowed to "buy" ship treats like speed, weaponry and special powers, before each stage, a departure from the traditional scrolling-shooter power up system. In the end of each stage, the ship could safely fly through a scrollable maze to other stage.

Guardic was not a hit, and this quirky shooter was never released outside the country of Japan. However, it did inspire a cult classic, the beloved NES shooter "The Guardian Legend" (known as "Guardic Gaiden" in Japan).

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*moby game|id=/guardic|name="Guardic"