Avenger

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Genres

Shooter, Arcade

Developer

Shin-Nihon Laser Soft Co., Ltd.

Release Date

December 6, 1990 (35 years ago)

Publisher

Telenet Japan

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The Avenger Looks Nuts, But Puts Console Gaming at Your Fingertips

By Brian Ashcraft Published June 24, 2011

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Summary

Avenger is a vertically-scrolling shooter, in which the player navigates a plane through levels populated by hostile planes, tanks, cannons, ships, stationary devices, and massive boss enemies. Before each mission, the player can choose among different weapons in three categories: main, sub, and special. Main and sub weapons are fired simultaneously and have unlimited ammunition, while the powerful special attacks are accessed by pressing a different button and are limited. The player can try any combination of the three categories, for example enhancing the main rocket launcher with a pod that fires laser to the sides as a sub weapon, and a protective shield as a special one. Power-ups change properties rapidly, so the player has to catch them at a specific time to enhance either main, sub, or special weapon. Those power-ups do not change the properties of a weapon, but rather give it additional fire power.