Game Classification

Salamander Konami (Hiroyasu Machiguchi) (Japan), Konami, NTDEC (piracy), 1986  

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Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Action - Arcade - Futuristic - Multi-scrolling shooter - 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 / 25 to 35 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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Salamander Salamander retitled Life Force in North America and in the Japanese arcade re-release (see version differences), is a scrolling shooter arcade game by Konami. Released in 1986 as a spin-off to Gradius, Salamander introduced a simplified power-up system, two-player cooperative gameplay and both horizontally and vertically scrolling stages. Some of these would later become the norm for future Gradius games. [source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Amstrad CPC - Arcade - Commodore 64 - MSX - NES (Famicom) - PC (Dos) - PC-Engine / TurboGrafx-16 - Wii - ZX Spectrum

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