The Dimensional Stone, which is required to maintain balance in the world of starship pilot Mark was stolen. The king finds a hero to retrieve the stone; using the "Fuzzical Fighter" to transport the player's character into enemy territory.
Towns are visited in-between stages to provide the player with weapons and artificats that are bought with the in-game gold currency. Players can choose to backtrack to either to previous stage while staying at the inn or to a stage that he has not yet explored. They also have access to three different kinds of healing spells: Riken (minor healing), Rikento (normal healing) and Rikentaru (major healing).
Despite being a mechanical object and not a creature, the Fuzzical Fighter has magic points that can be replenished while in the towns. The Fuzzy Fighter itself resembles a spaceship with a mechanical tail at the end.
In Empire City: 1931 which is set in 1931 you are a federal agent that has to eliminate all criminal activities in New York City. You must hunt the criminals down and shoot them one by one. To locate a criminal you just have to follow the arrow on the left or right of the screen. Killing criminals is done by moving the cross hair over them. A countdown timer will start counting down if a criminal starts shooting at you. You must kill the criminal before the timer reaches zero or you'll loose a life. New bullets can be collected by shooting at the bullet boxes that regularly appear in the game as other useful objects. The criminals sometimes take hostages for protection. Rescue these hostages for additional points.
Super Star Force: Jikuureki no Himitsu is a video game developed and published by Tecmo on November 11, 1986 for the Family Computer only in Japan.
The game was featured in episode 111 (14th Season) of GameCenter CX.
While this video game was originally assigned by Hudson Soft to be the publisher, Tecmo (then known as Tehkan) decided to both develop and publish the game as they were the official copyright owners
Tetrastar The Fighter is a 3D shooter by Home Data and published by Taito. In the year 2089, humanity forms an alliance with the intergalactic Baal empire but soon Earth finds out about the alien's true intentions. A group of resistance assembles the project Tetrastar to prepare for the potential upcoming threat. But the project lead by the general Nelson is soon put on hold and a short lived peace settles in. But the whole thing was nothing more than a hostile invasion and the Baal empire finally breaks the alliance and attacks Earth. The player's first mission is to prevent New York to be destroyed and then to retrieve Omega, the faithful robot navigator, to warp to the alien's mother world. The Tetrastar super fighter can move around the screen and fire a standard Vulcan gun. Special weapons become available later in the game from Bombs (WID), Homing Missiles (AAM), Napalm Bombs (NAP) and the powerful Bio Cannon (BIO) - they are accessible via the Select button and triggered by pressing A. They all come in limit
TwinBee 3: Poko Poko DaimaĆ is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up video game produced by Konami released for the Famicom. It is the third and last game in the TwinBee series for the Famicom and it ditches Stinger's horizontal levels making it more in line with the first title.
The game is considerably easier than its predecessors due to an option mode that allows players to adjust the difficulty and number of ships, as well as the inclusion of the new "soul reviving system", which allows players to recover their power-ups after losing a ship.
The game uses digitized PCM voice samples, particularly when the conga music in one stage chants "Poko Poko", and in the beginning of each stage, in which a voice proclaims the name of the stage.
It was re-released on April 14, 2006 as part of the i-Revo downloadable game service.
An unlicensed shooter from Inventor for the Famicom, allowing players to choose from 6 different stages of dinosaur action. Compatible with the NES zapper.
Johnson and Berry are good fellows in the battlefield. They have experienced numerous small and large battles without fail. But this time they've been given the most difficult mission ever: their commander asked for reinforcement support for the war emergency, but the enemy's frontier military post is located along the shortcut of the reinforced army's movement. Time is urgent! The commander decided to send a guerilla soldier to destroy the enemy's frontier military post in order for the reinforcements to pass through. Johnson and Berry are the storm-troopers who are the only team with a chance for success and survival!
An independently made game for the NES.
A competitive one-versus-one shooter; outthink and outmaneuver your opponent. Frantic and fearsome gameplay that's quick to pick-up but impossible to master!
Cosmos Cop is a pseudo-3D into-the-screen shoot 'em up that is similar to Sega's Space Harrier. However, the game experiences a lot of image breakup on the screen due to the NES's limited capability of handling first-person scaling.[2]
Devastating! Awesome! Experience the power of the mighty Firehawk helicopter gunship in this ultimate action game! Use skill to pilot the Firehawk through seven daring missions to pick up your troops from enemy-infested islands!
The opposition is tough and intelligent; with air, ground and sea defences. Destroy gunboats, jet fighters and tanks. Battle with enemy troops armed to the teeth with lethal weapons!
Engage Firehawk's advanced weaponry systems and make the most of the 32 different styles of firepower! Super fast 360 scrolling and land, sea and air mission scenarios - the action's just non-stop in Firehawk!
Your ship is equipped with both a standard laser and an independently fired ground weapon, which you must coordinate to defeat ground and aerial enemies. A shield bar keeps track of your damage and you can replenish it by defeating certain enemies, but otherwise its just you, your ship and several stages of alien enemies that alternate between top-down and side-scrolling perspectives.
Returning from three centuries of intergalactic missions, MCS-920 is surprised by an alien-infested planet. Whatever few lifeforms survived were driven underground or transformed into battling bionic mutants. You must escape the tentacles of these mutants, seek out and destroy alien ships, then overpower grotesque alien guards to steal their fiendish and bizarre weapons. From barren landscapes and colorful coral reefs to abandoned and frozen cities, you will yet come face to face with the alien tyrant in each world!
They're coming to your town! Isolated Warrior is a high-speed, uniquely developed game based on a 3-D concept that features over 40 types of enemy creatures, realistic graphics and explosive sound effects! Become Max Maverick, a lone warrior, who must defeat the awesome creatures that attack his highly civilized planet!
The general gameplay concept is that each level is like a child's version of The Running Man with a basic top-down view. Players must throw tomatoes skillfully at a series of easy-to-hit targets. Some elements of the game are indirectly taken from the classic arcade game Pole Position (except that the player does not have the option to play as a Formula One vehicle).
In order to make it to the next level, the player must make it from the starting line to the finish within the time limit with a young child on inline skates. Otherwise, the player loses a chance and the player must start the stage over again. The host of the televised game show, J. D. Roth, congratulates players for winning a stage while taunting the player with late 1980s/early 1990s sarcasm when he loses a "chance." Icy floors and slime colored ramps offer an additional challenge to the player. There are 72 rooms in the entire Fun House; with targets that are either numbered or given a generic target graphic. Each room has a name that usually gives
Your starship is alive - a metamorphic creature that can transform from a huge flying insect into a metallic destroyer! Penetrate squadron after squadron of bizarre alien fortifications. March onward to a final confrontation against an all-powerful enemy!
The player uses an 8-way joystick to pilot a combat aircraft called a Solvalou, which is armed with a forward-firing Zapper for aerial targets and a Blaster which fires an unlimited supply of air-to-surface bombs for ground targets. The game, presumably set in Peru, was noted for the varied terrain below, which included forests, airstrips, bases, and mysterious Nazca Line-like drawings on the ground
The presidential candidate's daughter has been kidnapped! It is your job to get past enemy lines and rescue her. This is the third game in the Ikari Warriors series, and features similar arcade/action gameplay. The screen is a top down view which scrolls vertically, with numerous bad guys to defeat. You start the game with just your fists, and as the levels progress you can find weapons and other objects to help you out.
Tommy Thunder was a third person shooter in development for the Nintendo 64 (and later for the PSX too) from Player 1 studios, but it was never released and we never got many informations about it. In November 2007, a dump was found on the internet.
Atari Masterpieces Vol. II is a collection of twelve emulated Atari games. The eight arcade games are:
Asteroids Deluxe
Centipede
Crystal Castles
Liberator
Pong
Millipede
Tempest
Warlords
In addition four Atari 2600 games can be unlocked:
Air-Sea Battle
Canyon Bomber
Miniature Golf
Video Checkers
They are each unlocked by reaching a certain score in a specific arcade game. The games are emulated and thus faithful renditions of the original versions. In the extras section the second and final part of an interview with Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, can be found. The first part was included in Atari Masterpieces Vol. I. For the arcade games the best scores can be posted and compared worldwide using N-Gage Arena.