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(c)TAITO CORP. 1989
Release : 1989-12-22 (¥6600)
Hucard (3 Mbits) TP01004
Shooter / Horizontal
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Heavy Unit is the adaptation of Taito's arcade game originally
released in 1988.
The action takes place in 2013 and the player controls
of a mechanized Heavy Unit, a powerful transformer
ship. "LE TAU", the first
colonial star created by mankind has been attacked by
evil aliens and they must be destroyed (At least, this is what the
original game's flyer says). The ship starts as a fighter with
a simple vulcan gun and secondary missiles. Flying pods will released powerups when
destroyed. They vary from Power Boosters (P), Shield Units (B)
and extra-player (E). A special transformer icon (T) will
turn your ship into a humanoid mecha. This robot has a
different set of weapons and the Vulcan gun is replaced
by a powerful beam of energy. In the same way, the missiles
are replaced by homing balls of energy. However, this mecha is
much larger than the ship and can be tricky to use in some
situations. Heavy Unit offers six unusual stages with
intense and difficult action.
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The original arcade game was released by Taito in 1988.
A Megadrive version was also released in 1990 by Toho/Kaneko and
curiously propose variations and differences in the level design.
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Add your Pov here !
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This game could have been great. Wait ! I'm kind of starting by
the end here. Let me tell you why I think this game could have been
great. As a kid, I clearly remember playing the original arcade game
and couldn't pass those robotic snakes. I was young, yes, but it was a
tough game. What makes Heavy Unit an unusual shooter is definitively its
level design. Things just do not follow what they are supposed to,
and this is what I like about Heavy Unit. The snakes, the giant
bull's head, nothing is were you expect it to be. So what about the 'could' in
'this game could have been great ?'. As I said, this game was tough.
And here you have it. Heavy Unit is probably one of the
hardest and most unfair shooter available for the PC Engine system.
Frustration, this simply describes what players are against to here.
Hard and unfair frustration. This game could have been great.
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