1943: The Battle of Midway: Difference between revisions

1943 as it appears in the arcade. The brown plane at the bottom of the screen is the player's

1943: The Battle of Midway was a vertically scrolling shoot'em up made by Capcom and released for the NES, the arcade, the Atari ST, the ZX Spectrum, the Amstrad CPC the Commodore 64, and the Amiga. It was the second game in the 1940s series, following the successful 1942.

1943 is set in the Pacific Theater of Operations in World War II, off the coast of the Midway Atoll. The goal is to reach the Japanese battleship Yamato and destroy it. The player (the American "Super Ace") pilots a P-38, and has to shoot down enemy planes. Besides shooting, the player can also perform a "loop-the-loop" to avoid enemy fire.

Destroying a formation of red enemy planes will result in a power-up, the most powerful of which are the special attacks of lightning, cyclone, and tsunami, which destroy all enemies currently displayed. The other power-ups are a several different types of shot, a pair of wingmen to fire alongside you, and a thousand points (you get a thousand points anyway when you pick up a power-up, though).

There are 16 levels, many of which contain hidden point bonuses. At the end of each level, you are given an accuracy rating, which, oddly enough, refers not to how many planes you shoot down, but how many of the guns on the enemy ships you destroy. The game was first released for the arcade, in 1987 www.gamefaqs.com.

See also

• List_of_computer_and_video_games_by_name

External links:

• GameFAQs entry
• KLOV entry