Gun-Nac
Gun-Nac
Gun-Nac

Gun-Nac

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Space invaders are one thing. Space invaders that bring ordinary objects to life and send them after you are something else entirely, and that gleeful absurdity is the heart of Gun-Nac. Compile, the shooter specialists behind Zanac and the Aleste series, built this vertical shoot-'em-up for Tonkin House in Japan in 1990, and ASCII brought it to North America in 1991. It looks like a cartoon and plays like a precision instrument.

The weapon system gives you a lot to play with. Five primary weapons, picked up from numbered circles, have unlimited ammunition and grow stronger with every Power P you grab as it drifts through the stage. Four kinds of bomb come from lettered circles and are limited by how many you have stocked, and powering up a bomb doubles its punch along with how much each blast costs. A wing upgrade enlarges your ship so it can take two hits instead of one, which feels like a luxury once the screen fills up.

Money is the other half of the strategy. Cash drops from destroyed enemies and objects or simply turns up as you fly, and between stages you spend it in a shop on upgrades, so every level is part survival run and part shopping trip. Planning what to buy for the next of the game's eight levels, and deciding whether to spend now or save for something bigger, gives Gun-Nac a layer of planning that most NES shooters never bother with.

AllGame's reviewer went as far as calling it perhaps the best shooter for the NES, and it is easy to see why it has that kind of reputation among shmup players. Put it next to Zanac and you have Compile's two great NES shooters side by side, one coolly serious and one cheerfully strange, both built on the same fast, responsive shooting.

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