Dead Connection

Dead Connection[lower-alpha 1] is an arcade game released by Taito in 1992.[2][3] The game takes place on September 5, 1953 "in a big city somewhere".

Dead Connection
Japanese arcade flyer
Developer(s)Taito
Publisher(s)Taito
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
  • WW: August 1992[1]
Genre(s)Shoot 'em up
Mode(s)Single player, multiplayer
CabinetUpright
Arcade systemTaito F1
DisplayHorizonally oriented

It features a group of detectives who set out to fight a crime family. The game has a strong Film noir vibe, shown through the appearance of the detectives and the featuring of a female protagonist. Each stage is preceded by a short cinematic interlude that explains the transition between the game's different locales.

Summary

The in-game manoeuvres were unusually diverse for a sprite-based shoot 'em up game of the era. When the player moves his character to within arm's length of an enemy, the shoot button triggers a melee attack. The player can also lie prone to evade gunfire, and perform a diving somersault in order to quickly take cover behind tables, plants, pillars, statues, and other fixtures.

Instead of using scrolling each stage takes place against an unmoving but richly detailed backdrop—beginning with the lavish interior of a posh hotel. Most of the environment is destructible and the scenery becomes visibly degraded by bullet holes throughout the prolonged firefights.

The game seems to take specific inspiration from the 1987 mobster film The Untouchables. Two of the main characters bear an unmistakable resemblance to Andy Garcia and Kevin Costner who both starred in that film as George Stone/Giuseppe Petri and Eliot Ness, respectively.

Reception
Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
CVG69%[4]
Sinclair User80/100[5]

In Japan, Game Machine listed Dead Connection on their October 1, 1992 issue as being the seventeenth most-successful table arcade unit of the year.[6]

Notes
  1. Japanese: デッドコネクション Hepburn: Deddo Konekushon
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References
  1. Akagi, Masumi (13 October 2006). タイトー (Taito). アーケードTVゲームリスト 国内•海外編 (1971-2005) (in Japanese) (1st ed.). Amusement News Agency. p. 44. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  2. Yanma (October 1992). "Super Soft Hot Information - Video Game: デッドコネクション". Micom BASIC Magazine (in Japanese). No. 124. The Dempa Shimbunsha Corporation. p. 243.
  3. S.E.A. (December 1992). "Arcade Machine: Dead Connection - Un imperio de gangsters". Micromanía (in Spanish). Vol. 2 no. 55. HobbyPress. p. 105.
  4. Boone, Tim (October 1992). "Arcade Action - Dead Connection". Computer and Video Games. No. 131. EMAP. pp. 78–79.
  5. Harrod, Gary (October 1992). "Coin Ops - Dead Connection - Taito". Sinclair User. No. 128. EMAP. p. 42.
  6. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 435. Amusement Press, Inc. 1 October 1992. p. 33.
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