Empire City: 1931
Empire City: 1931 | |
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Studio | Seibu Kaihatsu |
Publisher | Taito , Seibu Kaihatsu |
Erstveröffent- lichung |
12/ 1986 |
genre | Shoot 'em up |
Game mode | 2 players take turns |
control | 8-way joystick ; 2 buttons |
casing | default |
Arcade system | Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3 MHz) Sound CPU: Z80 (@ 3 MHz) Sound Chips: 2 × YM2203 (@ 1.5 MHz), 2 × MSM5205 (@ 385 kHz) |
monitor | Raster resolution 256 × 224 (4: 3 horizontal) Color palette: 257 |
information | in Germany Street Fight |
Empire City: 1931 is a first-person Shoot'-em-up , the 1986 from Seibu Kaihatsu developed and later at Taito licensed. In Germany the game was called Street Fight for licensing reasons . The aim of this arcade game , set in New York during Prohibition , is to rid the city of gangsters who mainly appear in a window front.
description
The player controls a crosshair over the screen, which can be scrolled in all directions , and has to find and shoot the gangsters. Occasionally there are screams from women being kidnapped by them. These women, who are directly with a gangster, must not be hit. It is often difficult to find the gangsters who mostly appear behind the windows. The whole house fronts have to be searched. A moving curtain indicates a successful search. But opponents can also be found down on the street.
The player must not be hit by them and can press a save button. However, almost the entire screen is covered by a graphic of the player character and the scrolling is shifted in the opposite direction. A speech bubble with a number (usually 5 at the beginning, counting down) shows the maximum time the save button must be pressed. In addition, there is only a limited number of ammunition. Later, the color graphic changes to a dark blue graphic (night).
At the end of each level , a fat boss standing on the street has to be hit.
successor
- Dead Angle (1988, arcade)
Ports
all ports of infogrames
- Nintendo Entertainment System (1987)
- Amstrad CPC as Prohibition (1987) (2 versions)
- Atari ST as Prohibition (1987)
- Commodore 64 as Prohibition (1987)
- ZX Spectrum as Prohibition (1987)
- PC-DOS as prohibition
Similar games
There are numerous similar games in the Shoot with a Sight genre . For example:
- Crossfire ( Commodore 64 , 1989)
- Vendetta (Bratpack) ( Commodore 64 , 1988)
- Gangster ( Commodore 128 , 1995)
- Gun City
- Police Academy 2 ( MSX , 1987)
Web links
- Empire City: 1931 in the Killer List of Videogames (English)
- Arcade history entry
- Empire City: 1931 at MobyGames (English)
- Prohibition at MobyGames (English)