286 · Heavy Barrel
Heavy Barrel is a shooter with a top-down view similar to Commando and Ikari Warriors. Terrorists have seized the underground control complex of a nuclear missile site. It is up to the player to infiltrate the installation and eliminate the leader of the terrorist army before they can launch the missiles.
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Show notes
- The Ultimate Weapon that will blow you away
- NES Longplay
- Manual
- Maybe the first video game we’re playing where the main focus is the weapon not the character?
- The guys on the box art look like they can barely hold it
- Bit of a stretch with the plot to explain the existence and gamification of the heavy barrel
- Terrorist have seized an underground nuclear site
- The site had the heavy barrel
- The terrorists didn’t know that and so one of technicians carefully took it apart into 6 pieces and hid those pieces all around the complex
- And they make NO attempt to explain that the technician did this more than once or why the heavy barrel has a 99 second time limit
- All that to say, how cool is the heavy barrel in game?
- the game only contains enough pieces to allow the weapon to be built three times in a single game
- And what about when you’re not playing with the heavy barrel?
- You shoot in the direction you walk
- Level Variety
- 2 player co-op
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- None
- EGL
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