Fighting Hawk
Player needs to control a large plane and shoot at tanks and helicopters. The bomb button actually fires a bunch of missiles that lock-on and track your enemies.
SCREENSHOTS
HISTORY
Fighting Hawk is a 1989 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. It was released in Japan in March 1989 and Europe the same year. It was re-released in the Taito Memories collection. Hamster Corporation released the game outside Japan for the first time as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in May 2022.
Gameplay
The player controls a plane which travels through battlefields and destroys enemies on land or in the air, in order to destroy a larger and more advanced plane. Its ammunition can be upgraded by power-ups, which increase the amount of bullets shot; a bomb attack is also available. The game ends after defeating the boss enemy at the end of the level, or having the plane be destroyed by enemy bullets.
1CC RUNS
One-credit clears we point to as the benchmark for this game.
STORES
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RELEASES 3 systems
PHYSICAL RELEASES 1 box
