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trying to rescue fellow pilots trapped in different time eras. In each level, players battle enemy aircraft and then a stronger aircraft. Players' fighter jet is in the center of the screen at all times. Players eventually battle a mothership of the time period they are in; once the mothership is
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was initially rejected by his boss at Konami, who assigned Okamoto to work on a driving game instead. Okamoto secretly gave instructions to his programmer to work on his idea, while pretending to be working on a driving game in front of his boss.
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arcade earnings chart in February 1983. The Amusement & Music Operators Association (AMOA) later listed it among the thirteen highest-earning
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Extra lives are given at 10,000 points, and per 50,000 scored up to 960,000; thereafter, the game goes to "survival of the fittest" mode.
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defeated, they move onto the next time period. Parachuting pilots will occasionally appear and award players points if collected.
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There are five levels: 1910, 1940, 1970, 1982/1983 and 2001. After the fifth level is finished, the game repeats thereafter.
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Fighters are destroyed if they collide into bullets, enemy ships, or missiles. Game ends if the last fighter is destroyed.
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indefinitely in all directions. Each level is themed to a different time period. Home ports for the
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on March 18, 2002. This version includes a hidden sixth era, 1,000,000 BC, with pterodactyls.
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on their June 1, 1983 issue as being the eighteenth most popular arcade title of the month.
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produced after 1982 contain an updated version of the game that changes the year to 1983.
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magazine gave the arcade game a generally favorable review upon release.
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As this level represents what was then the present day, all releases of
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but otherwise unrelated, were released in 1984 and 1986: from
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According to his account, Yoshiki Okamoto's proposal for
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in 1982. It was distributed in the United States by
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Developer(s)
Konami
Publisher(s)
NA
Centuri
EU
Atari Ireland
FRA
Karateco
MENA
Designer(s)
Yoshiki Okamoto
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
Platform(s)
Arcade
Atari 2600
MSX
ColecoVision
JP
EU
JP
Genre(s)
Multidirectional shooter
Single-player
multiplayer
multidirectional shooter
arcade video game
Yoshiki Okamoto

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