Tyrian is hands-down, one of the greatest arcade shooters to date. It also has a dual function as a mock bullet hell on Super Tyrian mode Oh cool trick for getting arcade ships in the main story. ---- Type in the code at the tittle screen as you normally would, then back out when the chapter menu comes up, finally, start a new game and select the story mode, chapter, difficulty, you should start with the ship. It won't appear in the ship purchasing menu till after you beat a level. Also, modern gamers, eat your hear out! Tyrian was the FIRST game with motion-blur. It is, however, but a unexpected side-effect of having a blue tinted background as shown on some levels, that and the high-speed Savara levels. It looks, however, like a simple video-artifact, but the fact that some even like this would show up on a old game is phenomenal. I could be wrong, and the developers actually put that in there.
