USAAF Mustang
Is a horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by NMK and published by UPL for arcades. It was ported to the Mega Drive by Taito, while being renamed Fire Mustang. Hamster Corporation released the game outside Japan for the first time as part of the Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in September 2021.
Also recorded as Fire Mustang
USAAF Mustang
- Date
- 1990
- Publisher
- USAAF Mustang was published by UPL.
- Genre
- shoot 'em up
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Is a horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by NMK and published by UPL for arcades. It was ported to the Mega Drive by Taito, while being renamed Fire Mustang. Hamster Corporation released the game outside Japan for the first time as part of the Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in September 2021.
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• Title — USAAF Mustang • Developer — NMK • Publisher — UPL Taito (Mega Drive) • Released — ArcadeJune 1990Mega Drive • Platforms — Arcade, Mega Drive • Genre — Scrolling shooter • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer
Gameplay
Gameplay
Players took on a fictional campaign in a World War II setting as a USAAF fighter pilot in a titular North American P-51 Mustang against the Nazi Luftwaffe and the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service, sent around stages in Europe and Asia against either of the two featured Axis powers. Every level was filled with a wide variety of different fighter craft and ground forces that all preceded the end-level boss (generally a large aircraft). Eight levels in all; the game repeats endlessly thereafter. Players had a typical Vulcan weapon that could be upgraded three times in order for the shot pattern to widen. Players also had an unlimited amount of ground force bombs that would increase in firing speed with the Vulcan. The player's bomb weapon was a weapon called "The Forcer" that fired a large fireball straight forward. While the arcade original featured a second player to join in, the 2-player addition was removed from the Mega Drive version.
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USAAF Mustang is associated with Japan.
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In Japan, Game Machine listed USAAF Mustang on their August 1, 1990 issue as being the sixteenth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
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- 1.Sega Corporation. Software List (Software Licensee Release). Sega Hardware Encyclopedia.
- 2.Akagi, Masumi. アーケードTVゲームリスト国内・海外編 (1971–2005). Amusement News Agency. 21–22. 13 October 2006. 978-4990251215.
- 3.Whitehead, Thomas. Nintendo Download: 9th September (North America). Nintendo Life. 2021-09-09.
- 4.Amusement Press, Inc. Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos). Game Machine. 385. 29. 1 August 1990.
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