is a rail shooter arcade game

Arcade game

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 developed and published by Namco

Namco

is a Japanese corporation best known as a former video game developer and publisher. Following a merger with Bandai in September 2005, the two companies' game production assets were spun off into Namco Bandai Games on March 31, 2006. Namco Ltd. was re-established to continue domestic operation of...

. The game's plot and setting resembles the 1989

1989 in film

-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...

 American

Cinema of the United States

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 action

Action film

Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...

/comedy film

Comedy film

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 titled Tango & Cash

Tango & Cash

Tango & Cash is a 1989 American buddy cop film starring Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance and Teri Hatcher. It was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, although Albert Magnoli took over in the later stages of filming....

as well as Starsky and Hutch

Starsky and Hutch

Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series that consisted of a 90-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC...

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Objectives & controls

The object of the game is to stop a bunch of criminals led by the main antagonist Big Cigar from breaking laws. The plot of the game is to stop a bunch of drug dealers. The game stars 2 men. "Wild" (based on "Hutch" and "Cash"), a surfer with long blonde hair. who is the shooter. And "Lucky" (modeled after "Starsky" and "Tango"), is the driver and wields a gun.

Official

• Player 1 driving and shooting (single-player mode).
• Player 1 driving and shooting with Player 2 shooting with 2nd gun (two-player mode).

Unofficial

• Player 1 just driving while Player 2 uses 1st gun.
• Player 1 just driving while Player 2 uses both guns.
• Player 1 driving, Player 2 using 1st gun and Player 3 using 2nd gun, allowing 3 players.

External links

• arcade-history.com