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Tac/Scan

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264:-firing Ahmins composing the superfleet from the planet of Ahm. The player is able to "collect" and earn these ships back as the game progresses. The squadron can drop down to one ship in the game, but still have four "back-up" ships. If the final ship in play is lost, however, the game is over (even if the player has unused "back-up" ships). This is different from other games that give the player ships sequentially. 450: 275:
of attacking enemies. The player can either fire upon them, or "tac" their ships around them. The second stage is much like the first, except that it is from a 3-D third-person perspective from behind the player's ships. In the third stage, the player pilots their ships down a space warp tunnel, and
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formation through waves of attacking enemies; the player can gain reserve units, while being able to command the units to perform various actions, including firing at enemies, getting into
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The game starts with seven individual ships in play. Those ships can be lost in any of the three stages by hitting a tunnel, getting shot, or colliding with an enemy, the
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on their July 1, 1983 issue as being the twenty-second most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
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will lose any ships that touch the side of the tunnel.
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Space combat color vector shooter arcade game from 1982
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Index


Developer(s)
Sega Electronics
Publisher(s)
Sega
Designer(s)
Platform(s)
Arcade
Atari 2600
PlayStation 2
NA
NA
NA
Genre(s)
Shooter
space combat
Single-player
space combat
shooter
arcade video game
Sega Electronics
Sega
Atari 2600
vector graphics
overhead
third-person perspectives
squadron
formation
PlayStation 2
Sega Genesis Collection

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