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Developer(s) |
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Publisher(s) | Data East |
Designer(s) | Koji Akibayashi (game design)[1] |
Composer(s) | Azusa Hara[1] Hiroaki Yoshida[1] |
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Release | 1987 |
Genre(s) | Run and gun |
Mode(s) | Single player, Cooperative |
Heavy Barrel (ヘビー・バレルHebī Bareru) is a 1987 overhead run and gunarcade game by Data East. Facebook app for mobile phone.
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- The impossible and unthinkable has happened. Terrorists have seized the underground control complex of a nuclear missile site. It's up to you to infiltrate the installation and eliminate the leader of the terrorist army.
- Heavy Barrel brings all the excitement that a child of the 80's could ever want. In this game, you are trying to save the world from Terrorists by assembling a special weapon called Heavy Barrel. The Dudes have a good time discussing this game and hope that you have a good time listening.
Gameplay[edit]
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Terrorists have seized the underground control complex of a nuclear missile site, and it is up to the player to infiltrate the base and kill the enemy leader. Players begin armed with a gun with unlimited ammunition and a limited supply of grenades. Improved weapons and grenade powerups are made available within the game, either in plain sight or within crates that must be unlocked using keys. Additionally, crates may contain orbs or one of the six pieces of the Heavy Barrel superweapon. Like SNK's Ikari Warriors, the original arcade version featured 8-way rotary joysticks.
The name of the game is from an in-game weapon. The Heavy Barrel is found in six pieces and is an energy cannon capable of destroying any enemy in the game with a single shot (except the final enemy, and possibly one other boss that may have required two shots). The weapon has a wide arc of fire and can be fired as fast as the player's trigger finger permits, but after thirty seconds its use is exhausted, at which point the bearer reverts to his previous weaponry. The Heavy Barrel is best used to get past tough bosses, and the game only contains enough pieces to allow the weapon to be built three times in a single game.[2] In a two-player game, whoever collects the sixth piece is equipped with the Heavy Barrel.
Ports[edit]
- Heavy Barrel was ported by Quicksilver Software to the Apple II and DOS in 1989.[3][4] The NES port was developed by Data East and released in North America and Japan in 1990. All versions of Heavy Barrel were published by Data East.
- In 1989, Heavy Barrel was contracted to be ported to the Commodore 64 by F.A.C.S. (Financial Accounting and Computing Software), a West Bloomfield Township, Michigan company. The graphics engine and much of the game-play was in place, but the development company folded before the project could be finished.
- In February 2010, Majesco Entertainment released[5] a port of Heavy Barrel for the Wii (as part of the 'Data East Arcade Classics' disc) and for the Zeebo.
References[edit]
- ^ abcClosing credits of Heavy Barrel (arcade version)
- ^http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=heavy-barrel&page=detail&id=1108
- ^http://www.mobygames.com/game/heavy-barrel
- ^http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/heavy-barrel
- ^Majesco press releaseArchived 2012-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, 16 February 2010
External links[edit]
- Heavy Barrel at MobyGames
- Heavy Barrel at the Killer List of Videogames
- Heavy Barrel at arcade-history
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Description of Heavy Barrel
Essentially the same game as Quicksilver's earlier Guerilla War, Heavy Barrel is your basic top-down shoot em' up game.
As in Guerilla War, the game features responsive controls, a lot of enemies, and is very quick to pick up. However, what makes this game different from, and much inferior to, Guerilla War is the fact that you can no longer ride in tanks, and stages are much easier and shorter. Fortunately, the co-op mode still remains so you can play with friends (although given how short it is, you won't need much help).
Heavy Barrel does have some strong points, such as letting you upgrade your bombs. Blue bombs are rather weak, but much more powerful than your standard bullet. Red bombs are the strongest weapons in the game: they can destroy a boss within seconds. Running out of red bombs, and you'll quickly find that boss fights take WAY too long and quite repetitive. This makes for a strange imbalance in the game: you'll finish the stage in minutes only to spend much more time with one boss.
In the final analysis, Heavy Barrel plays too much like Guerilla War and thus is more of a clone than a new game, and isn't nearly as fun besides. Play it if you like Guerilla War or simply must play every shoot-em-up ever made.
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- Year:1989
- Publisher:Data East USA, Inc.
- Developer:Data East Corporation
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