![]() Developer Pixel Titans punched the time machine back to 1996 and broke off the abort lever. Strafe nails its chosen genre’s fascination with death, packaging a single-life slaying spree with deliberate visual anachronisms and a speed matching id’s formative titans. Video director Thom Glunt and programmer Stephen Raney’s background in commercial and music video production lends an eye for finer details on presentation. As both, it hooked me into sinking over 10 hours into it, but as we parted ways, I felt I’d retread too-familiar ground. As a roguelike, it’s that one cabinet shoved shrine-like into the arcade’s darkest corner and reverently avoided for its quarter-gobbling reputation. As a shooter, it’s the personified desire to convince Mom to buy a Voodoo2 card. ‘Erwin Rommel was one such victim, nearly being killed when his car was strafed by an Allied fighter.Strafe proudly wears its influence on its sleeve-and its other sleeve, and its pant leg, and both jacket pockets.‘He said that helicopter gunships and navy patrol boats had strafed the communities, and that scores of civilians had been killed.’.‘Later, helicopter gunships reportedly flew over the area, strafing terrorist positions.’.‘Cities and villages are being bombed and strafed on almost a daily basis by warplanes and helicopters.’.‘From the air, two helicopters strafed the village.’.‘Helicopter gunships strafed the area where the guerrilla group was fleeing.’.‘They told us about how their houses had been destroyed and how they had been strafed by helicopter gunships.’.‘A government office that had been taken over by the militiamen and used to store ammunition was strafed by a helicopter gunship and then reduced to rubble by tank fire.’.‘Just what would have happened if Rommel's staff car had not been strafed by the RAF, thus putting him out of action four days before the assassination attempt, is one of the great might-have-beens of history.’.‘They strafed the trenches, killing twelve and wounding many others.’.‘Helicopter gunships and jet fighters systematically strafed the village, reportedly using information from spy satellites for targeting.’.‘The second flight made an S-turn and strafed the deck and set the ship on fire.’.‘Within hours of the attempted assassination, helicopter gunships strafed the village and hundreds of its inhabitants, including men, women and children, were rounded up.’. ![]() ‘To get here they had traversed mile after mile of rugged terrain while strafed by aircraft.’.‘Allied forces quickly ruptured the German front and penetrated deep behind the lines, while Allied aircraft mercilessly strafed the retreating Germans.’.‘The frigate was covering the cargo vessels when the fighters roared in, strafed it with cannon fire, and hit it with four bombs that failed to explode.’.‘Air bases were attacked, ships were strafed and fuel dumps were blown up.’.‘Several enemy aircraft were strafed and destroyed and airfield buildings were attacked.’.‘Unopposed for much of the raid, they dive bombed ordinary streets, strafing them with machine gun fire.’.‘Then the village is burned to the ground as those trying to escape are bombed and strafed by aircraft.’.
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