Air Gallet, Banpresto(Arcade)

Seventeen

Total Cost to finish game $4.25


The premise for this game is that a pair of UN pilots try to stop the world from being destroyed by freakish mechanistic creatures on one tank of gas. This is a hard game to finish, especially when Banpresto fills the screen with firing, multihit enemies and your ship gets blown up with a single shot. Your weapon power-ups can make a difference. There are multiple opportunities on each level to build up your firepower. However, weapon efficacy can be spotty. Spread shot works great, but the laser sucks. Bombs are only moderately effective, as neither iteration of the bomb clears the screen for you. Enemy shot frequency is high, resulting in the Malachi crunch of smacking into enemy weapon fire. Levels are of moderate length, as are the boss encounters. There are 5 levels to the game, with a final Boss encounter that is 3 times the normal length of a level Boss fight. Boss fights chewed up quarters, as did cheap hits while progressing through each level. Power ups were easy to recover, though - which made things easier. This game was good but certainly not great, and probably not worth the dough spent to finish it. Your reward for spending $4.25 to finish this game? Hearing the hero say "I'm going to take a nice hot shower, Ha Ha Ha!". As the guy in the Mitsubishi ad says: "I'm all tingly".