Hysteria

Hysteria is an action arcade shooter released in 1986. A fanatical sect has altered mankind’s future by summoning an extinct primeval entity in the past, leaving a lone survivor of the elite time corps to fight back on behalf of the federation of law and order.

The game takes the time warrior through horizontal-scrolling parallax levels set in Ancient Greece, the Dark Ages, and Space. Players must collect nine pieces that assemble into the entity’s face before confronting it, while hostile locals attack with thrown and fired objects.

An energy conversion kit can transform some projectiles and enemies into valuable weapons and armoury. Hysteria was developed by Special FX and published by Software Projects for Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum systems.