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'99: The Last War

Arcade - Released - June 1, 1985

Repulse is a fixed shooter arcade game released by Sega in 1985. It was renamed 99: The Last War when licensed to Kyugo (who developed the hardware) and Proma. There's also a bootleg version named Son of Phoenix. With a spaceship, the player shoots several kind of robotic enemies and spaceships. At the end of every stage (except for the first one), the player meets a huge enemy spaceship as the stage's boss. Player's spaceship is equipped with a limited force shield which allows it to resist any kind of attack, though energy drains both while its active and whenever the ship gets hit during. Power-ups are dropped by ally helicopters and spaceships, that bring to the player a new shot (much faster than the normal one) and refills his force field's meter.

Gyrodine

Gyrodine

Sharp X1 - Released - 1986

Gyrodine is a basic vertical scrolling shooter. You pilot a helicopter and have to shoot as many enemies as you can. You will fight against enemy helicopters, bunkers, tanks and fighter jets above different terrains like water, desserts and military camps. There is no background story and there are no levels.

Gyrodine

Gyrodine

NEC PC-8801 - Released - 1986

Gyrodine is a basic vertical scrolling shooter. You pilot a helicopter and have to shoot as many enemies as you can. You will fight against enemy helicopters, bunkers, tanks and fighter jets above different terrains like water, desserts and military camps. There is no background story and there are no levels.

Gyrodine

Arcade - Released - 1984

Gyrodine (also released as Buzzard) is a basic vertical scrolling shooter. You pilot a helicopter and have to shoot as many enemies as you can. You will fight against enemy helicopters, bunkers, tanks and fighter jets above different terrains like water, desserts and military camps. There is no background story and there are no levels.

Planet Probe

Planet Probe

Arcade - Unreleased - 1985

A prototype vertical space shoot'em up game with a parallax background. The player controls a probe sent to a mysterious planet and is attacked by several types of enemies. Face the attacks using all the available weapons and escape from the planet to complete the mission. This rare Japanese coin-op can be described as an elaborate evolution of Tehkan's Senjyo. There's fixed horizontal scrolling (from left to right), but your spaceship shoots vertically. You can shoot into the pseudo-3D background, to destroy the outposts located on the landscape, AND right up in the sky, to eliminate the enemy spaceships. The scrolling never stops, and environments smoothly cycle from deserts to volcanic areas, from alien oceans to futuristic cities. There's no music in the game (only sfx) but the hi-score table features a catchy tune [note: so catchy I still can remember and play it after almost twenty years!] What else? Your ship is very slow and there are no power ups, still there are plenty of secret bonus targets, such as super deformed pterodactyls and an invisible knight you can spot only when its silhouette is exposed to moonlight. Planet Probe is so rare that no picture can be found on the Net and nobody seems to own a PCB of the coin-op; anyway, at the time several videogame magazines featured news about the game and/or published readers' hi-scores.

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