Dropzone
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Game Title:Dropzone
System:Nintendo NES
Players:1 Player
Genre:Action/Adventure
Developer(s):Arena Graphics
Release Date(s):1984
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Dropzone is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Arena Graphics in 1984. It is a bi-directional, horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up in the style of Defender.
The game borrows many elements from the arcade game Defender, including the same font style, alien depictions and title screen depictions. On the surface of Jupiter's moon, Io, a human scientific research base is under attack by aliens. The player dons a jetpack armed with a laser, a cloaking device and three smart bombs, to rescue the scientists and return them to the base.
The gameplay is much in the style of Defender, You control the hero trying to rescue the scientists on a horizontally side-scrolling game field. Players must elude or engage various aliens, some slow, others faster, and return the scientists to the base's eponymous dropzone. The aliens capture scientists walking along the ground. The player must shoot the enemy aliens and catch the falling scientists. Sometimes the aliens will carry lethal androids instead, which must be avoided. Overall there are 99 levels of gameplay, each increasingly more difficult. After level 99, the levels would repeat starting over. Oh joy! And the Verdict is...
This was never the greatest game in its day, and it certainly has not matured with time! The game-play and play-ability is very limited, and soon becomes a chore!. Not what you want from a game, No no no!. |