Japan

Argus

A Jaleco vertical shooter with an actual pilot's routine: bomb ground targets, tangle with enemy squadrons, and touch down on landing strips to refuel and stay alive. A home port of their 1986 arcade game, rough and disciplined. A genre curiosity for anyone collecting shooters with rules of their own.

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