Arrow Flash Longplay (Sega Genesis) [QHD]

Game Info
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Developer: ITL
Publisher: Renovation Products
Year of Release: 1990
Game Review & Impressions
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Not a shoot 'em up I'd heard of before, Arrow Flash isn't going to win any awards for innovation. It's a relatively by-the-numbers horizontal shooter with the usually assortment of upgrades, end-of-level bosses and everything else common to the genre.
The game does try and mix things up by allowing the player to transform between fighter and mech-suit mode. The fighter has a narrower cone of fire and has a blastwave as a special weapon, whereas the mech has a wider angle of fire and can initiate what I fiess is the titular "Arrow Flash", turning itself into a glowing death hulk that can kill enemies on contact.
The reality is that these two modes don't really offer a huge variety in terms of gameplay. I didn't find there was much need to use the special abilities all that often, with the regular weapons being powerful enough in most cases. What we're left with is a game with some nice parallax scrolling and cool demoscene-style tricks, but fairly mundane gameplay.
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[@arielbochman]

This channel consistently has beautiful games presented in perfect video quality and I absolutely love it

[@WillieTroxler]

I love games like this it has amazing games presented in perfect video quality ❤

[@supaordie]

I knew that company’s name looked familiar, as well as the graphics style… this is the same company that made “Gaiares”, one of my all time favorite shmups!

[@ArcadeIsMyLife1]

Gundam called and they want their everything back.

[@damin9913]

11:22 is my favorite part of the music😊

[@Umbrellamax.]

GG 😊

[@ecu4321]

The music in this megadrive game is so awesome! Its not as fartsy as most genesis titles. I suppose this isn't using the gens engine

[@emmaevans9498]

Great little shooter cunningly disguised as a Macross game 👍

[@sockpuppet4716]

Damn, what's that space station made of...?
Crashes from orbit, doesn't break up, doesn't even make a splash... And then at the end of the level you land back in it like nothing happened!
Early title for these guys presumably, several aspects seem a bit underdeveloped, lots of filler... Those mid-game boss designs are lush, though. And the "colony drop" spectacle on the first level, even if it finishes with a bit of a cop out, would have been a jaw floorer at this time.

[@examiningdata7952]

R type
( kind of )

[@aubreymiller4857]

Arrow flash is the easiest game I've ever played

[@aubreymiller4857]

With cheats enabled

[@Antonio-hx7yh]

mediocre technical realization, not even at some Amiga's shooters. Genesis/Megadrive can do way much better than this