Midnight Resistance (Joystick bootleg) - Gioco MAME

Videogioco arcade pubblicato 35 anni fa:

Midnight Resistance © 1989 Data East.

Midnight Resistance is a scrolling platform shoot-em-up for one or two players, taking on the role of two commando brothers whose entire family has been kidnapped and must be rescued. The game consists of nine large, eight-way scrolling levels made up of platforms, ledges and ladders. Each is populated with enemy soldiers and gun emplacements, as well as occasional armoured vehicles. At the end of each stage players must defeat a large, powerful enemy boss.

Players can rotate their guns through 360 degrees, allowing them to fire in all directions. Some enemies, when killed, will drop a red key; collecting these keys allows players to upgrade their weapons at the shop that awaits at the end of each level. A maximum of six keys can be carried at any one time and when the player loses a life, all weapons and keys in their possession are dropped. These can be recovered at the start of the next life providing they haven't fallen off-screen.

In addition to main weapon upgrades, secondary weapons can also be bought. These appear as backpacks attached to the player characters and fire when the player pushes up on the joystick while firing their main weapon. Both the main and secondary weapons have only a limited amount of ammo but more can be bought from the end-of-level shops.

Main weapon upgrades:

Full Auto - Rapid-fire machine gun
Fire - Flamethrower
3-Way - Fires orbs in three directions at once
Shotgun - Fires powerful shells

Backpack weapon upgrades:

H.M - Homing missiles that automatically target enemies
Nitro - An eight-way laser energy burst
Shower - Eight projectiles drop from the top of the screen

Other power-ups includes a 'Supercharge' upgrade that improves the firepower of the player's current weapon (this upgrade is lost when the player loses a life), a 'Barrier' that provides temporary protection and extra lives.

Before the final stage, the keys collected during the penultimate eighth stage can be used to free the player's relatives before the final battle with Crimson King. The ending varies depending on how many family members the player has rescued.

DATI TECNICI
CPU principale: Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
CPU sonora: Hudson Soft HuC6280 (@ 3 Mhz)
Chip sonori: YM2203 (@ 1,5 Mhz), YM3812 (@ 3 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7,757 Khz)

Giocatori: 2
Controllo: Spinner
Pulsanti: 2

CURIOSITÀ
Midnight Resistance è stato rilasciato nell'Ottobre 1989.

The game's ending changes slightly depending how many family members are rescued before the final battle! Save them all!

Pony Canyon / Scitron hanno pubblicato un album della colonna sonora in edizione limitata di questo gioco il 21 Agosto 1990 (Crude Buster, Midnight Resistance - PCCB-00039).

A Midnight Resistance unit appears in the 1990 movie 'Robocop 2'.

AGGIORNAMENTI
The US version has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.

CONSIGLI E TRUCCHI
The game's ending changes slightly depending how many family members are rescued before the final battle. For the ''proper'' ending, all family members must be saved. The players must have the full count of six red keys in order to release all of the prisoners.

SERIE

• Heavy Barrel (1987)
• Midnight Resistance (1989)

STAFF
Designer: Koji Akibayashi
Software: Yuichi Nishimura, Naoya Hanada, Yuji Ohtomo, Tac. H
Hardware: Keiichi Yoshida, Hiroyuki Iwabe, Shingo Mitsui
Grafici: Tomoo Adachi, Kazumi Minagawa, Fujimi Ohnishi, Yoshinari Kaihoh
Suoni: Ahsa, Mard, Fuse, Kiwchi, Hitomi Komatsu

CONVERSIONI

• CONSOLE:

[JP] Sega Mega Drive (29 mar. 1990) "Midnight Resistance [Modello T-13043]"
[US] Sega Genesis (1991)

• COMPUTER:

[EU] Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1990)
[EU] Commodore C64 (1990)
[EU] Amstrad CPC (1990)
[SP] Amstrad CPC (1990) "Midnight Resistance [Modello AM 614]"
[EU] Commodore Amiga (1990)
[EU] Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1991) "Midnight Resistance [Modello AC42]"
[SP] Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1991) "Midnight Resistance [Modello SE614]"
[EU] Atari ST (1992)
[EU] Atari ST (1993) Budget edition

CONTRIBUISCI
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