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Mars Rising is a vertically-scrolling shooter written by David Wareing and published by Ambrosia Software for Macintosh computers in 1998. Mars Rising's setting and gameplay has been compared to Xevious (1982) and Raiden (1990). It was followed by a sequel, Deimos Rising, in 2001.
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