Battle Cross is a vertically-scrolling shooter published by Omori Electric in 1982, with the player commanding a tank that must blast its way through both air and ground enemies alike. It's representative of the first wave of vertical shooters that followed in Xevious's wake, still with simple design but already carrying the layered-wave logic that would define the genre. It's a poorly documented title even among specialists, more cited as a catalog piece than actively played, but useful for tracing the evolutionary line of the Japanese vertical shooter in its early years.
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