Twin Eagle
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Twin Eagle is a NES
Nes
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 game published by Romstar
Romstar
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. It is a vertcial scrolling shooter in which the helicopter is player-controlled. The player needs to shoot enemy ships, turret
Turret
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s, helicopters and planes and earn points. During the game if certain buildings are destroyed, hostages are found and extra points are received for saving them.

The European version of the game contains a well-known Japanese-English mis-translation as the player is informed after losing all lives that "The player game is abortion". The NES version was based on the arcade game made by the Seta corporation a year earlier. The start screen is homage to the original.

Twin Eagle Revenge Joe's Brother was an arcade
Arcade game
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 game which came out in 1988 made by Seta corporation licensed to Taito. It was one of the first arcade to use extensive digital sampling from digitized photos to digitized soundtrack.

http://arcade.svatopluk.com/seta/twin_eagle/ screenshots.
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