This is Hydlide for the PC-8801. I have played this game before, but something seemed a bit off when I loaded this copy. It worked fine and I couldn't put my finger on the difference, but I realized later that this was for the early PC-8801 models (original and vanilla mkII). That means no PSG (programmable sound generator) support,which made the music sound very thin. It seems as though up until this point, I had only ever played the original Hydlide on the Sharp X1, which supported PSG music.

I didn't play too far into the game this time, but I realized I don't have a post for any version of this game on my site, which took me by surprise! It at least deserves basic representation!