With so many arcade conversions in the pipeline, US Gold have certainly got a busy time ahead of them. But not half as busy as Probe Software, who appear to have ceased publishing games in their own right to concentrate on converting arcade games for other companies - amongst them Sega's Out Run. An original game, Trantor: The Last Storm trooper is also being produced by Probe for US Gold's new software label GO!
Data East's Last Mission is one of Probe's more recent arcade conversions, and is a straightforward multi-directional scrolling shoot em up in which you fly around killing aliens in between destroying ground installations. Firepower is initially limited to a simple laser, but can be improved by collecting the letters revealed when a ground installation is destroyed.
While some letters simply increase firepower, others allow one of a trio of weapons to be selected, and ultimately, upgraded. Extra weaponry is merely temporary however, and firepower reverts to the laser when the supply is exhausted.
SCANNER
A grid of four by four boxes at the bottom of the screen acts as a scanner, revealing the number of installations that remain in each sector. A Mother ship makes itself known when all the installations have been destroyed, and once that has been killed off a large square alien construction mysteriously appears, suspended in midair. Destroying the eight links which appear to hold it in place changes the scenery and the next level is accessed.
Last Mission offers nothing significantly new, and isn't particularly exciting to play - but then, the original arcade game isn't up to much either. It isn't overly taxing to get to grips with, but even so the minimal instructions are unhelpful and only explain movement and option keys. Quite simply, an unremarkable addition to the overflowing range of shoot em ups.
My rating for this game is 2.5 out of 5. This game is where we can see how history of copy cat gaming started. It's not a bad game to play but it doesn't have any originality of game play or story.
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