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I don't know if it's the best, but the oldest games I've played this year are:
I'm also looking for an old game I had on a 5" floppy back then... a fast-paced vertical scrolling shootemup/bullet hell, possibly with "Goose" in its name...
That and a Space Invaders-like that sounds like Galaxian, but is not Galaxian...
Similar concept, but possibly from the 90s, and your ship had a retractable claw to catch power-ups, and some sort of vertical sidebar in its UI with your score, wave progress, etc.
I don't really think it's your answer, but Galaga is in the neighborhood on name and gameplay.
It's possible a different version than I remember had some type of claw.
The last one sounds like Galactix? Screenshot here.
Now that I think about it, that was probably my introduction to shmups. Either that or Axelay, not sure which I played first.
YES! That's it.
Likely one of my first shmups too.
Thanks a lot, I'll fire it up in dosbox eventually.
B:\GX1.EXE