Title – Metal Arms
System – Family Basic
Author – 安江 信吾 (Shingo Yasue)
Publication – マイコンBASIC (Micom Basic) 1990 01
Page Scans – 1 2 3
Preserved By – ozidual
Recommended Emulator – VirtuaNES
Metal Arms was also made by Shingo and a few others though they are credited with nothing. It was the first game I typed up that requires loading and running one program to prepare everything, then loading and running a second program to play the game. There is a 3rd program that is just the credits. This games is extremely smooth and extremely fast paced. There are 3 layers of background stars moving at different speeds which add a lot of depth. Lots of bosses which are smaller but look more ship-like and at least 3 standard enemy types. Bullets all over the screen. As before move with D-Pad and shoot with A/B.
Four-fold scrolling of stars!
In this game, the stars on the background scroll four times. Even on the title screen, the stars on the background scroll three times.
Story
Nostradamus’ great prophecy came true. In 1999, the King of Terror really came. It was the first time that people believed in prophecies. However, destruction was not decided. All we had to do was defeat him.
And then one last piece of technology and hope took off from Earth.
Content
This is a shooting game. Your ship moves in eight directions using the D-Pad.
The laser will fire four times in a row while holding down the A and B buttons. The game consists of five zones, A to E.
Boss
Zone -A-: Warping around the screen, it fires 4 bullets in a row in 8 directions. There is no hit detection while the bullets are flashing.
Zone -B-: Randomly moves left and right on the screen and shoots bullets in three directions.
Zone -C-: From the bottom to the top of the screen, it moves left and right and shoots bullets in three directions. There are 10 bosses here.
Zone -D-: The boss stays still in the center of the screen and 8-way explosive bullets fly at you like crazy.
Zone -E-: ?
Program
The list is divided into three parts, but you don’t need to type in List 3 because it’s the ending. If you type in list 3 and try to see only the ending you will get a reset.
It takes time. Enter the program in the order of list 1, 2, 3, and Save them in order. Load and run List 1 and List 2 in that order. If you typed in List 3, please delete line 840 in list 2. The machine code is for the movement of the aircraft.
The Machine code DATA in Listing 1 contains the following: Your ship’s laser, enemy’s 3, 8-direction bullets, hit detection, star quadruple scroll. There is a checksum included so don’t worry
Lastly
Enemies can fire up to 32 lasters. However, all the lasers are directed in the same direction. Therefore, it is angled.
