Ajax

a.k.a. Typhoon

created and published by Konami in 1987-12-16, running on Arcade
type: shooter
genre: Scrolling shooter
perspective: 3rd person bird's-eye
player options: single player
languages: eng jpn
3/5
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Official description

Control your helicopter/jet fighter by using the 8-way joystick Destroy the enemies in the air and on the ground with two fire buttons.
Use SUPER WEAPON button to destroy all the enemies in one go.
Do not waste the shells, however, as the number of shells available is limited.
Capture the symbol for an extra shell.

POWER UP
Destroy the red enemy and capture power up capsule indicating a letter, which changes each turn.
Power up feature will be decided according to the letter indicated when captured:

V VULCAN: Rapid bullets can be fired in the directions controlled.
B BOMB: Air-to-ground missiles will have extra power.
3 3-WAY: Fire bullets straight forward, straight right and left.
T TRIPLE: Bullets spread three ways in front.
L LASER: Radiate double laser.

Destroy the enemy formation in red and a capsule indicating a letter "O" appears, which does not change in to other letters.
Capture it to have extra firing power.
Extra firing power can be obtained up to double normal power.

# 2021-12-07 15:33:09 - official description

Technical specs

software: Emulated on MAME,
display: raster

External review - average: 55%

review sourceissuedatescore
Power Playde51988-0555/10055%
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