Blazer (video game)

Blazer (ブレイザー, Bureizā) is an isometric perspective scrolling shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1987, only in Japan; it runs on the company's System 1 hardware, and used a three-quarter-view perspective (another one of them is Namco's own Pac-Mania).

Blazer
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Namco
Publisher(s)Namco
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
Genre(s)Isometric shooter
Mode(s)Up to 2 players, alternating turns
CabinetUpright, cabaret, and cocktail
Arcade systemNamco System 1
CPU2x Motorola M6809 @ 2.048 MHz,
1x Motorola M6809 @ 1.536 MHz,
1x Hitachi HD63701 @ 1.536 MHz
Sound1x Yamaha YM2151 @ 3.57958 MHz,
1x Namco CUS30 @ 96 kHz,
1x DAC
DisplayVertical orientation, Raster, 224 x 288 resolution

Gameplay

The player must alternate between a tank named "Vanguard" and a helicopter named "Hardy" (and for the tenth and final mission, a hovercraft named "Atlanta"), to kill enemies both on land and in the air. Some air-based enemies will leave behind powerups for Vanguard to collect, when hit by its anti-aircraft missiles; they can restore its fuel, increase its fuel capacity, make it invulnerable for a short period of time, and even grant it an extra life if it manages to collect enough of them (which is initially thirteen, but it can go up to sixteen).

This game was dedicated to Shoko Tamako Sumie from all its staff;[2] upon completion of the game, it gives a list of schematics for the player tank, and a passage from In The Cold Morning Of August.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Blazer on their September 1, 1987 issue as being the fifteenth most-successful table arcade unit of the year.[3]

gollark: Wait, no, bad encryption *combined* with a bad hashing-like thing.
gollark: Right, so it's kind of like a bad version of hashing?
gollark: I mean, I don't have wireless networking yet, and it's a laptop, but that's okay, I don't need to actually productively *use* it.
gollark: We can only hope.
gollark: It has taken an hour and a half and I now have about a million tabs open, but I can now boot into a command line from the actual HDD on Arch. Yaaaaay!

References
  1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2169536/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf
  2. http://www.vazcomics.org/mamend/B/blazer.htm Blazer at MamEnd
  3. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 315. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 September 1987. p. 23.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.