Terroid

Terroid is a video game in the action genre developed by Digital Nightmares and published by Lomax Software originally released in 1996. It is currently playable on DOS.

Terroid is a single-person, top-down, side-scrolling space shooter. The game is much like R-Type and S.W.I.V., as intended by its creators: the player faces wave after wave of alien ships as he flies over ground-based installations firing missiles and collecting power-ups. It can be played with a joystick or keyboard and has sound effects and music.

The story of the game is the generic tale of a lone starfighter who returns from a patrol to find that his home planet has been destroyed and the population teleported to the alien homeworld as slaves. Only you, that lone pilot, can free them.

The full game has nine levels plus two 3D bonus levels, one comes after level three and the other after level six, in which the player has to pilot his ship through a series of silver rings while avoiding space mines. The goal is simply to get a high score, there are three levels of difficulty Beginner, Easy and Normal, and the player gets more points on the harder levels. These games have fixed levels containing minefields, barriers and traps. There is also a training game mode that plays an endless game with 'an intelligent level generator' that creates attack waves to fight against, these levels do not have the traps and challenges of the standard games.

Terroid has no save game option but, unusually, if the player has lost their three lives and has a score above 50,000 they are offered the option to buy three extra lives in exchange for points.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.