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Thunder Dragon
Take control of the advanced sci-fi fighter craft GH-68 Thunder Dragon and battle a massive mechanized force in this vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up from NMK and Tecmo.
Overview
Thunder Dragon is a sci-fi vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up developed by NMK and released by Tecmo (Company) for arcades in 1991.
A shoot-'em-up similar to the earlier games Raiden (Game) and Twin Cobra (Game), Thunder Dragon has players piloting the advanced combat spacecraft "GH-68 Thunder Dragon" as they battle a massive mechanized force in a futuristic Earth.
Similar to Raiden, the player's fighter craft has multiple sub-weapons that augments the basic twin cannons, each of which are swapped by collecting power-ups and each of which can be upgraded multiple times by collecting multiple copies of the same power-up. The four sub-weapons are:
- Wide, which delivers more cannon shots in a wider arc.
- Vulcan, which augments the twin cannons for larger shots.
- Reflect, which fires multiple laser beams at multiple angles, some of which change direction after a short time.
- Missile, which periodically deploys clusters of powerful cruise missiles from the ship.
While the game received no home ports at the time, it later received a digital release via Hamster's Arcade Archives (Franchise) series for the PlayStation 4 (Platform) and Nintendo Switch (Platform) on March 11, 2021. It also received a sequel with Thunder Dragon 2 (Game).
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- Name
- Thunder Dragon
- Release Date
- 1991
- Platform
- Arcade (Platform)
Nintendo Switch (Platform)
PlayStation 4 (Platform) - Developer
- Publisher
- Genre
- Shoot 'Em Up (Genre)
- Theme
- Modern Military (Theme)
Sci-Fi (Theme) - Franchise
- Arcade Archives (Franchise), Thunder Dragon (Franchise)