Baltron

a.k.a. バルトロン

published by Toei in 1986-03-19, developed by Shouei System, running on Nintendo Entertainment System

type: shooter
genre: Science Fiction, Scrolling shooter
setting: Future
perspective: side view
player options: single player

languages: eng

2/5

Personal review

Baltron is a horizontally scrolling shoot'em up game with similar gameplay mechanics as defender. You can fly to the right and left and have a radar, which shows incoming enemies. But it is not a Defender clone. You don't have to rescue anybody and ultimately only have to go to the right. The game scrolls faster whenever you steer your ship forward to the edge of the screen. You also have the ability to warp a little bit forward, but that costs precious fuel. Otherwise I couldn't make out any extra weapons. The controls are ok, but the game itself is pretty boring, has no levels and is continuously looping with just a few color changes .