Fighter & Attacker

Fighter & Attacker

Screenshot
Developer(s) Namco
Publisher(s) Namco
Composer(s) Shinji Hosoe
Takayuki Aihara
Platform(s) Arcade
Release date(s)
  • JP October 1992
Genre(s) Vertical scrolling shooter
Mode(s) 2 players can play simultaneously
Cabinet Upright, cabaret, and cocktail
Arcade system Namco NA-1
CPU 1x Motorola 68000 @ 12.5 MHz,
1x Motorola M37702 @ 12.5 MHz
Sound 1x C140 @ 44.1 kHz
Display Vertical orientation, Raster, 224 x 288 resolution

Fighter & Attacker, originally titled F/A (エフ/エイ Efu/Ei) in Japan, is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game, which was released by Namco in 1992; it runs on Namco NA-1 hardware, was the first game on this hardware to be released outside of Japan (Bakuretsu Quiz Ma-Q Dai Bōken was the first overall) and is the only game from the company that showed the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen in its attract sequence with vertical orientation (the two titles that displayed it previously, Tank Force and Steel Gunner 2, both displayed it with horizontal orientation). The players must take control of two of sixteen different aircraft (the Japanese F-15J and F-4EJ, the American YF-23A, F-16AFTI, YF-22A, F-14D, A-6E, F/A-18E (the game was originally named after this one), X-29, A-10A and F-117A, the Swedish JA-37, the British GR.5 and MRCA IDS, and the French ACM and MIR 2000)[1] - all planes have different firing and bombing patterns, but unlike in other vertical scrolling shooters (where players have an amount of lives, like Namco's own Xevious, Dragon Spirit, Phelios, Blast Off and Dangerous Seed), both players' chosen aircraft only have one life, with an energy bar (marked "ARMOR") at the bottom of the screen, and if it should become depleted, the game shall immediately be over for that player. However, the players can earn extra energy by reaching certain scores, much like how they can earn extra lives in most other games where they have an amount of lives - and if the arcade's operator has set the "CONTINUE" setting in the game's options menu to "ON", they will be able to continue by inserting another coin within ten seconds of their energy bar becoming depleted, and have the opportunity to select a different plane if they did not get very far with the one they had originally chosen. As with The Return of Ishtar, all six World Stadium games, and Cosmo Gang the Video, two players can play on one coin; however, unlike Toy Pop, Cosmo Gang the Video and the aforementioned Bakuretsu Quiz, both scores are not combined.

References

  1. ↑ F / A

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