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Game Name : Prehistoric Isle in 1930
ROM Name = prehisle
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Settings:
Bonus Life - Only Twice, Lives 3, Difficulty - Standard, bonus Life 100k, 200k
Controls:
8 way joystick, 2 buttons (Shoot, Option)
Horizontal Standard.
Ships are disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle. Two planes are sent to an unexplored island, the so named "Hell Island", to investigate the disappearances. They discover an land forgotten by time, filled with hundreds of hostile dinosaurs.
The player's plane in PREHISTORIC ISLE only has a single, straight ahead shot. By picking up a power-up icon from floating dinosaur eggs, however, the ship gains an option. The option rotates around the ship when the secondary button is pressed, and unleashes different attacks based on its positioning: straight ahead powers up the primary weapon, at an angle above fires reflecting orbs, at an angle below drops bombs, straight above or below fires a reflecting wave, and straight behind drops floating bombs. The option and the ship's speed can both be upgraded from icons dropped by dino eggs. Enemies come from all sides of the screen, and the screen will occasionally scroll up and down as well as forward.
So it's a shooter. 1989, by SNK. Very Gradius-ish. Except you're a biplane shooting the everloving heck out of dinosaurs, and cavemen and stuff. Oh and there's vertical scrolling too.
You get an 'option' that can be positioned in different spots for different attacks:
Kinda goofy but I've always had a soft spot for this game. And always sucked at it.
Five stages. Don't have any specific tips or secrets yet but let's figure it out together!
Interesting tidbit I've found: TwinGalaxies lists the world record at 1.5 mil!
2nd place? 172k.
Hmm. Game is hard, is what I'm saying.
Current scores:
1. yamatetsu - 145,900
2. shaolindrunkard - 81,400
3. j.fitzenr - 75,300
4. pbj - 45,800
5. acvieluf - 43,300
Last day: Sunday, May 20 2018, midnight Pacific Time
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