Battle Girl is an arcade-style top-down shooter

Shoot 'em up

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 computer game for Mac OS

Mac OS

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 and Windows

Microsoft Windows

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, released by Ultra/United in September 1997. Its allure is its high-pace action, vector graphics

Vector graphics

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 and techno

Techno

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music.

Story

You play the role of Battle-Girl by piloting her Soyuz 1183-A BattleCraft and destroying programmers released by Terminus, weapon of Chaos. You must journey through countless programs and protect their function pods to defeat Terminus and save the Great Machine. Fortunately, you are armed with not only vast firepower, but also with a girlish wit and a violent disposition. Michael P. Minori achieved the all-time high score of 3,503,101 at level 112.

External links

• Battle-Girl at Feral Interactive, including full version
• Battle-Girl at Tucows, including demo