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Axelay
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Item Condition
Complete in box: the cartridge, the manual and the box, all original. Original inserts or paperwork shown in the photos are included; display stands and other photography props are not. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
The first time an Axelay vertical stage rolls toward you, the ground curving away under your ship like the surface of a giant drum, it is hard to believe it is running on a 1992 cartridge. Konami used the Super Nintendo's Mode 7 hardware to warp the scenery into a pseudo-3D horizon, and the effect still turns heads. It was the showpiece moment that made Axelay a must-see shooter for early SNES owners and earned it a reputation as a classic of the genre.
Six stages alternate between those top-down sequences and side-scrolling ones in the spirit of Konami's own Life Force, carrying the D117B fighter from the cloud layers of Cumuluses through the space colony Tralieb, the city of Urbanite, a flooded cavern and a lava planet to the invading Armada of Annihilation's fortress. Instead of grabbing power-ups mid-flight, you earn new weapons as you progress and arm three slots before each stage, a main weapon, a special weapon and a bomb or missile type, then switch among them on the fly. Choosing the right loadout for a vertical or horizontal stage is half the strategy.
Its damage system is just as smart. A hit does not destroy you outright; it disables the weapon you were using and drops you to a weak default version, and only a second hit while weakened costs a life, though crashing straight into an enemy is still fatal. That makes every slot a kind of shield and keeps tense moments survivable. The bosses are huge, the explosions are generous, and Taro Kudo's soundtrack is a favorite among Konami music fans, with tracks such as "Unkai" and "Colony" later chosen for Konami compilation albums. Clear the final stage and the game loops back with denser bullet patterns waiting.
Produced by Kazumi Kitaue, fresh from Super Castlevania IV, Axelay was made by a team that included developers who would later go on to Treasure, and it was originally meant to stay in Japan until letters from players and critics brought it West. A planned sequel, Axelay 2, never materialized, which only adds to the legend. Playing it on an original Super Nintendo is the best way to see Mode 7 at its most dazzling.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1992
- Publisher
- Konami
- Players
- Single player
About the game
An unknown alien race came to this planet and promptly laid waste to it. The remaining defense force has been sent out to try and defeat them. One lucky person gets to fly the latest line of defense ships made: the AX-77 Axelay. However, these ships are still in the prototype stage, and as such, only one exists.
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