Midnight Resistance

Your heart is pounding violently as sweat glistens on the strained muscles of your tensed body. Braced for the coming blast, your mind races — you've got to do this. They've got your family somewhere, caged like animals. This is what you're trained to do. This is your mission, your chosen fate.

And then, the blood rushing through your veins, you explode into the compound. Red- hot giant saw blades scream down on you. Heavily armed tanks lumber inexorably toward you, shooting wildly. Every fiber of your being wrenches you into combat. Your immense, three-barreled gun thunders death down on your enemies. And so your one-man mission begins. Based on the arcade game, Midnight Resistance is an intense experience that pits you, the toughest man alive, against a mega-evil army of menacing blue and red soldiers. You're armed with some major weapons, but they've got armored personnel carriers, tripod machine guns, flying robots, and walls that fire plasma lasers.

You've got enough motivation to outlast them all because they've kidnapped six members of your family. And that, to say the least, makes you mad.

Fans of if-it-moves-destroy- it games like Rambo III and Dynamite Duke will enjoy this fast action cart. The non-stop combat takes you scrolling both vertically and horizontally through a forest, over a bridge, into buildings, and more.

As you fight your way through the game, you collect keys from red soldiers to trade for some pretty awesome power- ups that include flame throwers, shotguns, fully automatic machine guns (automatic firing is an awesome feature of this game), homing missiles, fireballs, and a whole arsenal of mighty weapons.

Midnight Resistance has great color, animation, graphics, and sound. This is one outstanding combat game!

• TIP: To get past the giant missile launcher, shoot down on it with your three-barrel and with homing missiles. When shooting homing missiles, aim up and then aim down. The missile launcher is a tough nut to crack, so keep the faith!

• TIP: When you encounter the tank on the bridge, put your gun on auto and stay to the left. Keep jumping to both dodge bullets and to trick the tank into shooting over your head.

Midnight Resistance is a run and gun arcade game which is controlled by using a 3D joystick to allow the player to aim in any other way than the one in which the character was moving. This was quite unique and innovative for 1990 and made the experience of playing this game very fun and enjoyable. The player takes control of a military commando that needs to rescue a kidnapped family. The game features multi-directional shooting, fast-paced oriented gameplay, the possibility to upgrade weapons and also bosses for all the levels.

When a family is threatened with retribution by the Crimson Monster, it's time to take fate into your own hands and swim against the current, taking with you to hell all the monsters that meet on the way, that's what awaits the entrant in the world of the Midnight Resistance arcade.

Lead and Family Honor.

In the arcade version, a monster by the lofty name of King Crimson has kidnapped the family of two nameless brothers. Through tons of lead stockpiles, sweat, blood, and pain, the brothers embark on a journey to salvation.

The King Kidnaps.

The Sega Genesis / Mega Drive console version, however, developed its own story. In it, Johnny Ford, a member of the drug squad and the game's protagonist, returns to his hometown. However, the return cannot be called pleasant. A certain King Crimson broke into the hero's house, stealing his family and, in particular, his scientist father. Developing Ford's father would have helped all addicts get cured. Looks like Johnny Ford is back in business now.

You gotta know how to shoot too ##

Run and shoot - that's the main motto of the game. You kill monsters and collect keys, a monster hits you and the keys fall out. A similar system was in the Sonic The Hedgehog series, only with the rings. The choice of weapons and tricks is not great, but for the arcade is forgivable:

• You can buy special guns in the store, which replace the player's rifle;
• Panzer Weapons. Your own fighter, fly across the platforms and shoot.
• The bonus to shooting will be a supercharge. It increases the damage of the current weapon, but lasts a limited time.
• Barrier. Considered an impenetrable shield that can help overpower crowds of strong enemies.

Weapons from the store and bonuses are limited in time in use, so when the charge runs out - there is a standard and boring rifle player. Ammunition for additional weapons can be bought in the store.

## Keys are more important than weapons.

The game even has several ending options. One is the death of the hero and the other is his victory. The ending depends not on the skill of the player in the battle with the final boss, but on the number of keys they manage to collect. The keys open the cells with the members of the hero's family and the number of rescued relatives determines the ending.