Lexor: Sword of Aragon?

wwee: i know its not a windows game, but could it be Conqured Kingdoms?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/conquered-kingdoms

timppu: I have been looking for certain DOS vertical shooter, probably from early 90s (like 1990-1994 or so). Too bad I remember so little about it, but the most distinctive thing was that it was very much like japanese shooters, ie. big explosions, big guns etc. Could be even that it was indeed made by a japanese company. The graphics and scrolling were not completely smooth, a bit jerky, but still very playable game.

Most western made PC vertical shooters of the time were rather slow and not quite as flashy in comparison, like Xenon 2 (ok it's quite flashy :)), Raptor, Tyrian etc.

I've been looking for it in mobygames etc. without success. Anyway I think I played it around 1991-1992, just before the Doom graze (because after Doom appeared, I didn't play much of anything else but it for a year or two. :)). Too bad about vague memories

Thiev: Also... don't you ever sleep? ==

timppu: Most western made PC vertical shooters of the time were rather slow and not quite as flashy in comparison, like Xenon 2 (ok it's quite flashy :)), Raptor, Tyrian etc.

predcon: No, the setting was Fantasy, not Ancient China. In otherwords, not Yet Another Romance of the Three Kingdoms Game. It was just that some of the weapons and armor of extreme rarity had Chinese characters in the name. Also, while the Player sprite didn't show exactly the weapon or armor the player had equipped (like in Titan Quest), the class specific armor and weapon sprites on the player sprite would "upgrade" as the player leveled up and equipped more powerful items (like how the Barbarian in Diablo II starts off with a leather skirt, and ends up with full plate, but only based on the number of points in Defense, not the type of armor itself; properties of armor and weapons determined the colour).

Smannesman: Perhaps it's Nightstone.
There is pretty much no information anywhere else, except that it apparently wasn't very good.
The interface looks Diablo-ish though.

Protoss: Lamentation Sword? (Note: Halfway kidding) ;-)
Did not use the Diablo Engine, but played much like it. Only without the goodness. And you had up to three characters.

predcon: No, the setting was Fantasy, not Ancient China. In otherwords, not Yet Another Romance of the Three Kingdoms Game.

Barnell: What were you flying? Or driving? Was it futuristic or WW2ish?

timppu: Flying (in space), and futuristic. I know, too vague, but I am not sure if there were so many such "japanese" shooters for PC back then, 1991-1993 or so. Note: the game itself was in English if I remember right, it was not japanese-japanese (I think).