Double Strike

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Item Description

Not every NES shooter arrived with Nintendo's blessing. Double Strike came in through the side door: developed in Taiwan by Sachen, where it was released under a title meaning "Twin Eagles," it reached North America in 1990 through American Video Entertainment, a small publisher that sold NES games without a license from Nintendo. That outsider pedigree is a big part of its appeal today.

The setup is pure late-'80s action movie. A terrorist organization calling itself DAMED, short for Destructive Armed Militant Enemy Devotee, has overrun the islands of the South Pacific, and you're sent in at the controls of an experimental fighter jet, the Thrasher Hawk-7, to drive them out. Nine islands stand between you and victory, and destroyed enemies can drop six different power-ups that upgrade your guns, add bombs or hand you extra lives, which turns every stage into a scramble for firepower before the next wave closes in.

It's an honest, no-frills shoot-'em-up rather than a lost masterpiece, and the overwrought acronym and comic-book jet name give it a personality the polished licensed shooters never had. The unlicensed corner of the NES library, where Sachen, AVE and Color Dreams built a strange parallel market of their own, is one of the most interesting rabbit holes in the hobby, and Double Strike is a characterful, playable way into it.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1990
Publisher
Sachen
Developer
Joy Van
Genre
Shooter
About the game

The South Pacific contains some of the most beautiful islands in the world, and they have all been invaded by a terrorist organization called DAMED (Destructive Armed Militant Enemy Devotee). You must fly an experimental fighter jet called the Thrasher Hawk-7 to battle the enemy and rid them from nine different islands. To help out, six different power ups can be collected after destroying certain enemies which provide better weapons, bombs, or extra lives.

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