Night Striker - Classic Arcade Shoot 'em Up (Taito 1989)

A retro arcade shoot 'em up developed and published by Taito back in 1989. Players take on the role of the «Night Striker», a futuristic armored car that appears more like a space ship/hovercraft, than it does a ground based vehicle. The game features a retro theme with the majority of stages depicting forward scrolling battles through city streets and over large stretches of open water. Night Striker has 21 random choice stages. At the end of each stage a fork in the road appears giving the option to choose one of 2 stages to advance upon. Among the many enemies depicted in the game, players often battle against attack helicopters that appear in a similar manner to those depicted in Sega's Thunder Blade arcade shooter. The game ran on Taito's System Z hardware, raster graphics at a resolution of 320x240px.