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Twin Cobra
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Before Toaplan became a byword for brutal, beautiful shooters, it built its reputation on attack helicopters. Twin Cobra, known in Japan as Kyukyoku Tiger, is the 1987 follow-up to the studio's Tiger-Heli, and it was a huge success in Japanese arcades, where it became the highest-grossing conversion kit of 1988.
The NES version, developed by Micronics, keeps the core loop that made the arcade game so compulsive. You fly straight up a vertically scrolling battlefield packed with tanks, gun emplacements, warships and aircraft, with a stock of screen-clearing bombs held back for emergencies. Destroyed carriers release colored icons, and picking up red, blue, green or yellow switches between four weapon types, while S icons stack up extra firepower. Gold medals feed your score, B icons restock your bombs, and the trick is protecting a fully powered gun, because a single hit sends your firepower back to where it started.
That risk-and-reward rhythm is what keeps Twin Cobra exciting. Choosing which color to chase, when to spend a bomb and when to dodge rather than shoot turns every stage into a running negotiation with the enemy fire. It is demanding, but it is also fair in the classic arcade way, and every run teaches you something about where the next tank will roll in.
Toaplan went on to make Truxton and Zero Wing, and after the studio closed in 1994 its veterans helped found Cave, so Twin Cobra sits near the root of a long family tree of shoot-'em-ups. Released in Japan by CBS/Sony and in North America by Sammy, the NES cartridge is a chance to play that early Toaplan design at home, and a natural companion to Tiger-Heli for anyone tracing the studio's history on the console.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1989
- Publisher
- CBS/Sony Group
- Developer
- Toaplan
- Players
- Single player
About the game
The NES/Famicom port of Twin Cobra. A helicopter themed shoot 'em up action game from a birds eye view. Developed by Toaplan, it is the successor to their first STG Tiger-Heli, and features similar gameplay.
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