Space Cruiser - Gioco MAME

Videogioco arcade pubblicato 42 anni fa:

Space Cruiser © 1981 Taito corporation.

An excellent and varied space shoot'm up game. Locate the coordinates of attack on the interstellar map, the UFO attack is coming!
Forwards! The Earth's future is on your shoulders! Blast off the Space Cruiser for a new survival adventure!
Stages:

• UFÒs found! Attack and destroy!
• Danger! Asteroids!
• Space station!
• Alien's found! Attack and destroy!
• Enemy bases in range!

DATI TECNICI
Runs on the "Taito SJ System" hardware.
Adesivi prom: CG
Screen resolution: 224x256 (vertical)

Giocatori: fino a 2 (alternati)
Controllo: 2-way joystick (left and right)
Pulsanti: 2
→ A = fire, B = continue

CURIOSITÀ
Rilasciato nel Settembre 1981.

A few seconds of 'Night on Bald mountain' from 'Fantasia' are played during most stages.

The game features digitized speech during countdown before blastoff, but the quality isn't high.

High score allows to put up to 10 letters.

'Forward!' is misspelled as 'Foward!'.

The game has punctuation mistakes - an unnecessary space is placed before almost all exclamation marks (except 'Danger! Asteroids!', 'Asteroids point! and 'Alien's found!' - there's no space before exclamation marks).

Also available as a cocktail model. In Japan, the cocktail version is known as "T.T. Space Cruiser".

PUNTEGGIO
Enemy's ufo on 'UFOs found' stage = 50 points
Mothership on 'UFOs found' stage = 1000 points
Miniature asteroid on 'Danger! Asteroids' stage = 10 points
Huge asteroid on 'Danger! Asteroids' stage = 20 points
Bonus for full distance traveled with no crash on 'Danger! Asteroids' stage = 2480 points
Docking on 'Space station' stage = 2000 points (without any shots into it) and extra life
Ufo on 'Space station' stage = 100 points
Shot into docking spot = (-50) points per shot
Alien on 'Aliens found' stage = 30 points
Ufo on 'Enemy bases in range' stage = 100 points
Crater damage on 'Enemy bases in range' stage = 200 points
Crater destroyed on 'Enemy bases in range' stage = 200 points
Rocket on 'Enemy bases in range' stage = 1 point
Base destroyed = 3000 points

CONSIGLI E TRUCCHI

• You can randomly get a protective ufo on either half of the 'UFOs found' stage. This ufo protects you from rockets fired from enemy's ships.
• Avoid the red maneuvering laser from mothership on 'UFOs found' stage.
• Shoot all possible asteroids on 'Danger! Asteroids' stage.
• Watch out on 'Danger! Asteroids' stage: it has a slip zone; you'll be warned before you enter it.
• Dock successfully on 'Space station' stage to increase firepower. This is required to get 3000 point bonus for destruction of the red base.
• Shoot the green alien in the first half of the stage to kill the remaining yellow ones. Do the same on the second half, but this time cyan aliens will be dead.
• You have 21 ufos to shoot out on 'Enemy bases in range' stage before you proceed to destruction of 3 craters and the base itself.
• Watch out for red ufos: they release a yellow beam freezing you for 2 seconds.
• Don't let red ufos land on the bottom of the screen: you'll lose a life when you let them.
• You don't have much time to destroy 3 craters on 'Enemy bases in range' stage. When the base moves away, you'll need to start the game from the beginning.

CONVERSIONI

• COMPUTER:

[JP] FM-7 (1983)
[JP] NEC PC-8801 (1983)

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