Falcon

Falcon is an early-80s vertical-shooting arcade board, a period of genre explosion following the success of Xevious and company. Available documentation about its specific developer and exact release year is limited. Given that lack of certainty, it's soberly cataloged as one more exponent of the huge crop of vertical shooters that defined the genre's early years.

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