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Midnight Resistance, the Video Game by Data East [Tokyo, Japan]

DESCRIPTION

Type of the machine : Video Game
Midnight Resistance © 1989 Data East.

One or two players take on the role of two commando brothers whose entire family has been kidnapped and must be rescued. The game's eight large, eight-way scrolling levels are made up of platforms, ledges and ladders; each populated both with enemy soldiers and with intricate, imaginatively designed enemy machinery.

In a gameplay mechanic first introduced in SNK's 'Ikari Warriors', players can rotate their guns through 360 degrees, allowing them to target and fire in all directions.

Some enemies, when killed, will drop a red key; collecting these keys allows players to upgrade their weapons at the shop that awaits at the end of each level. A maximum of six keys can be carried at any one time.

TECHNICAL

CABINET :
Midnight Resistance machine
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : HuC6280 (@ 3 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz), YM3812 (@ 3 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.757 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 57.41 Hz
Palette colors : 1024

Players : 2
Control : Spinner
Buttons : 2

TRIVIA

Released in October 1989.

The game's ending changes slightly depending how many family members are rescued before the final battle! Save them all!

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Crude Buster, Midnight Resistance - PCCB-00039) on 21/08/1990.

A Midnight Resistance unit appears in the 1990 movie ''Robocop 2''.

UPDATES

The US version is slightly different, it has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.

TIPS AND TRICKS

The game's ending changes slightly depending how many family members are rescued before the final battle. For the ''proper'' ending, all family members must be saved. The players must have the full count of six red keys in order to release all of the prisoners.

SERIES

1. Heavy Barrel (1987)
2. Midnight Resistance (1989)

PORTS

Consoles :


sega mega drive Sega Mega Drive1990)

Computers :


Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1990)
Commodore C64 (1990)
Atari ST (1990)
amstrad cpc Amstrad CPC (1990)
commodore amiga Commodore Amiga (1990)

SOURCES

Game's rom.
Machine's picture.

LAST EDITION

November 17, 2009