Topple Zip

a.k.a. トップルジップ

created and published by Bothtec in 1987-10-09, running on Famicom Disk System

type: action/reflex, shooter
genre: Science Fiction
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: jpn

Personal review

At first I thought "Topple Zip" would be some sort of TwinBee clone, but it's not a pure shooter. The game is about a racing event and you fly with your "ship" against other opponents. You can pick up weapons and shoot them down. From time to time you can enter a warp window to teleport to another stage. What you actually have to do to finally win the game I couldn't find out. The quality of the game is rather low. Flickering sprites, bad controls, sub-par music. It doesn't take half a minute that you feel that this game is a fail. Well from what I have seen the original MSX version is pretty bad as well. So bad that I wonder why they decided to bring this game out for the Famicom as well.