These versions were all developed and published by Mastertronic.Īlthough Bosconian was not as popular as other multi-directional space shooters (such as Sinistar), Bosconian was the first arcade game to include a standard continue system, which allowed players to continue right where they left off once they are out of lives (by putting more credits into the machine). 1 for the PlayStation, Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube, Namco Museum: Battle Collection for the PSP, Namco Museum: Virtual Arcade for the Xbox 360, and Namco Museum Megamix for the Wii.īosconian also received a pseudo-sequel, Bosconian '87, on the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The original arcade release was also released in certain Namco Museum compilations, namely Namco Museum Vol. Most of these ports were published by Midway. The game was also ported to several home computer systems, including the MSX, Sharp X68000, Sharp X1, and NEC PC-6001. The objective for the player is to destroy enemy space stations positioned somewhere in the level (with guns that fire both forwards and backwards at the same time) while avoiding asteroids, stationary mines, swarms of enemy spaceships, and enemy missiles. The player pilots a spaceship that is fixed in the center of the screen, moving across a scrolling starfield in one of eight directions. Bosconian is an arcade multi-directional space shooter developed and released by Namco into arcades in 1981.
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