Lifeforce

Shoot Them Up 

Type of the game: [Coin-Op] Arcade Video Game
Lifeforce © 1986 Konami Industry Co., Ltd.

Konami Nemesis Hardware
Game ID : GX587

Main CPU : MC 68000 @ 10Mhz / G400 Bios
Sound CPU : Z80
Sound chip : 2x AY-3-8910 psg

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

Released in October 1986. This game is known as "Salamander" in Japan. For more information about the game, please see the original Japanese entry.

This US release, is just like the Japanese original only with slightly different color palettes.

Jason Wilson holds the official record for Lifeforce with 526,800 points.

* Weapons:
1) Ripple Laser: Expanding loops of destruction.
2) Toothpaste Laser: Nice stripy death-ray, makes a cool noise.
3) Missile: Ground-following, fires up & down.
4) Multiple: Strange blob things that follow you around, they have whatever weapons your ship has.

1. Nemesis (1985)
2. Lifeforce (1986)
3. Gradius 2 (1987, MSX)
4. Vulcan Venture (1988)
5. Nemesis 3 - The Eve of Destruction (1988, MSX)
6. Gradius III (1989)
7. Gradius - The Interstellar Assault (1991, Nintendo Game Boy)
8. Nemesis '90 Kai (1993, Sharp X68000)
9. Salamander 2 (1996)
10. Solar Assault - Gradius (1997)
11. Solar Assault - Revisited (1997)
12. Gradius Gaiden (1997, Sony PlayStation)
13. Gradius IV - Fukkatsu (1999)
14. Gradius Generation (2002, Nintendo Game Boy Advance)
15. Gradius V (2003, Sony PlayStation 2)

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