Dark Arms: Beast Busters
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Dark Arms: Beast Busters is an action role-playing game
released by SNK
for Neo-Geo Pocket Color in 1999. It is the follow-up to the SNK arcade
shooter
Beast Busters
. Dark Arms features a girl, Meghan Loughlin, whose job is to defeat and contain an outbreak of demons and act as a mediator between this world and the next. The game is unique in that the character can collect the spirits of the various demons and zombies you fight in the game with a gun known as The Catcher. The player character can use captured spirits to 'feed' his weapons and evolve them into more powerful forms. For example, the Handgun evolves into the Sub Shotgun, which can then evolve into the Shotgun, and so on.
Action role-playing game
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released by SNK
SNK Playmore
SNK Playmore Corporation is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. SNK is an acronym of , which was SNK's original name. The company's legal and trading name became SNK in 1986....
for Neo-Geo Pocket Color in 1999. It is the follow-up to the SNK arcade
Arcade game
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shooter
Shooter game
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Beast Busters
Beast Busters
Beast Busters is a rail shooter arcade game released by SNK in 1989 and ported to the Commodore Amiga and the Atari ST in 1990. A city has been invaded by the undead...
. Dark Arms features a girl, Meghan Loughlin, whose job is to defeat and contain an outbreak of demons and act as a mediator between this world and the next. The game is unique in that the character can collect the spirits of the various demons and zombies you fight in the game with a gun known as The Catcher. The player character can use captured spirits to 'feed' his weapons and evolve them into more powerful forms. For example, the Handgun evolves into the Sub Shotgun, which can then evolve into the Shotgun, and so on.