Fighter & Attacker
| Fighter & Attacker | |
|---|---|
 Screenshot | |
| Developer(s) | Namco |
| Publisher(s) | Namco |
| Composer(s) |
Shinji Hosoe Takayuki Aihara |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release |
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| Genre(s) | Vertical scrolling shooter |
| Mode(s) | 2 players can play simultaneously |
| Cabinet | Upright, cabaret, and cocktail |
| Arcade system | Namco NA-1 |
| CPU |
1x Motorola 68000 @ 12.5 MHz, 1x Motorola M37702 @ 12.5 MHz |
| Sound | 1x C219 @ 44.1 kHz |
| Display | Vertical orientation, Raster, 224 x 288 resolution |
Fighter & Attacker, known in Japan as F/A (エフ/エイ Efu/Ei), is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game, which was released by Namco in 1992.
Gameplay
Players must take control of two of sixteen different aircraft, all of which have different firing and bombing patterns. Unlike many other vertical scrolling shooters where players have a set number of lives (like Namco's own Xevious), both players' chosen aircraft only have one life, with an energy bar (marked "ARMOR") at the bottom of the screen, which immediately ends the game for that player if depleted. However, players can earn extra energy by reaching certain scores - and if the arcade's operator has set the "CONTINUE" setting in the game's options menu to "ON", they will be able to continue by inserting another coin within ten seconds of their energy bar becoming depleted, giving them the opportunity to select a different plane if they did not get very far with the one they had originally chosen.
The selectable aircraft are based on a number of real-life fighters, including the Japanese F-15J and F-4EJ, the American YF-23A, F-16 AFTI, YF-22A, F-14D, A-6E, F/A-18E (for which the game was originally named), X-29, A-10A and F-117A, the Swedish JA-37, the British GR.5 and MRCA IDS, and the French ACM and MIR 2000)[1]
As with The Return of Ishtar, all six World Stadium games, and Cosmo Gang the Video, two players can play on one credit. However, unlike Cosmo Gang the Video and Bakuretsu Quiz, both players' scores are not combined.
References
External links
- Fighter & Attacker at the Killer List of Videogames
- Fighter & Attacker at the Arcade History database