Steel Gunner 2

Steel Gunner 2 (スティールガンナー２, Sutīru Gannā Tsū) is an arcade game that was released by Namco in 1991; it runs on Namco System 2 hardware, and as the name suggests, it is the sequel to Steel Gunner, which had been released in the previous year. It was also sold as a conversion kit for Taito Corporation's Operation Thunderbolt (1988).

Steel Gunner
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Namco
Publisher(s)Namco
Designer(s)G. Iwasaki[1]
Composer(s)Y. Takayanagi
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
  • JP: December 1991
  • US: 1992
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)2 players can play simultaneously
Arcade systemNamco System 2

Gameplay

Again, the players must take control of the Neo Arc (which, again, is a pun on Newark, New Jersey) policemen, Garcia and Cliff, but this time they are on a mission to destroy the evil army of Vanguard who are attacking the city. Some of the enemies from the original game make comebacks, but have undergone a makeover since the first time Neo Arc saw them, in 1990 - and several new enemies have also been introduced as well. Again, the players can shoot anything on the screen, including background objects, and even innocent bystanders (of which there are only eight types now as opposed to ten); but again, if they should do the latter it will cause them to lose energy as if they got hit by an enemy.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Steel Gunner 2 on their April 15, 1992 issue as being the eighth most-successful upright arcade game of the year.[2]

References
  1. Steel Gunner 2 at MamEnd
  2. "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - アップライト, コックピット型TVゲーム機 (Upright/Cockpit Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 424. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 April 1992. p. 25.


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