''Spherical Worlds'' is a

shoot 'em up Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs) are a Video game genre, subgenre of action games. There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain typ ...

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developed by 4-Matted and published by Neo Software, released for

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platforms in 1996. The game plays from a

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, from which the player controls a spherical battle droid, shooting their way through an enemy battleship. The player can equip the droid with weapon and tool enhancements, such as additional weapons,

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s, extra lives, and

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s, through a special weapon shop shown between game levels.

References

1996 video games Amiga games Amiga-only games Multidirectional shooters Rockstar Vienna games Single-player video games Video games developed in Croatia {{Shmup-videogame-stub