Game Classification

Heavy Unit Kaneko Co., Taito Corporation (Japan), 1988  

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Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Action - Futuristic - Shooter

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SHOOT : explanation of this brick
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Heavy Unit Heavy Unit is a "shoot-'em-up" game.

It's year 2014 and human colony "Le Tau" is under attack by some strange aliens. You are given command a special starship that can be transformed into mecha (giant robot) through game by obtaining various power ups. Besides that it's a typical shooting game where you have to fly through various side scrolling levels and shoot everything you see. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Arcade - Genesis (Megadrive) - PC (Dos) - PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16

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