You are also able to play on two separate levels at any time in many areas, further expanding the number of options available at any time.
Translated from one of the better single-player action entries to appear in the arcades, this Namco-licensed title succeeds in beefing up the Tengen library of games with another solid game that holds plenty of surprises!Īlthough Rolling Thunder adopts a fairly standard run and shoot theme, it throws in all kinds of different obstacles and impediments that can be used for protection as well. If you enjoy playing secret agent and shooting your way through scores of enemies, Rolling Thunder will captivate you with its excellent graphics, furious action, and clever array of enemies. However, there are passwords in areas 3,5,7, and 9 that let you start over from those levels. You have three lives, and you can continue the game three times - in other words, nine tries in all before you have to start over. If you get shot, or if your life gauge drops to zero for any reason, you lose a life.
To finish all the levels and face Mabu takes a good eye and very fast fingers. They come at you in predictable ways, but there are enough variations to keep the game interesting. To get very far, you have to quickly learn the attack patterns of your enemies. And you must get by them all before time runs out for Leila. There are several different kinds of hooded thugs with varying degrees of power ninjas who suddenly drop from the walls ape-men and panthers that leap at you bats with human faces and alien balls of flame that split apart and attack when shot. Starting at the entrance to the fortress, you shoot your way through ten levels of increasingly difficult and deadly enemies. Mabu's thugs have captured a policewoman, Leila, and are holding her in the alien's secret underground fortress. And make no mistake, shooting to kill is just about the whole game.īased on the popular arcade game, Rolling Thunder pits your gun-toting hero - a member of the Rolling Thunder secret police - against the insidious hordes of Mabu, an alien intruder who is directing the Evil Society in the ultimate conquest of the world. There are enough alien attackers, hooded thugs, and cloaked ninjas to keep the fastest fingers flying. Basically, it's a shoot-to-kill secret agent adventure with a science fiction twist.
Rolling Thunder from Tengen is one of those games - a guaranteed thumb-numbing action thriller. In games like Ninja Gaiden, Contra, and Double Dragon, the action is so fast and relentless that you have to hit the pause button now and then just to flex your fingers. You can tell how good a fast-action Nintendo game really is by how quickly your fingers and thumbs begin to cramp up and go numb.
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