Super Depth 2 FINALTY (PC-98)

Super Depth 2 : FINALTY is Bio 100 %’s follow-up to its freeware cult shooter Super Depth, released for the NEC PC-9801 on 20 February 1995. Abandoning its predecessor’s vertical sonar bombing, the sequel delivers a horizontally scrolling, five-stage space shooter that feels closer to Life Force / Gradius: you launch the fighter “FINALTY” from mothership Yamaboku, weave through parallax caverns, switch between a rapid-fire spread missile and a charge-beam, and trigger screen-clearing smart bombs. Power-ups again boost both your craft and the enemy rank, so every loop gets nastier until the carrier-boss finally warps out. Smooth 60 Hz hardware scrolling—rare on stock PC-98—helped the game win praise (and the 1st Free Software Grand Prize’s action category), while the FM/MIDI soundtrack by fin and NEW later received a Prague orchestra arrangement in 2008. A single-disk FDI image was distributed as freeware at Comiket before a DOS/V build followed later that year.