Eco Fighters

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Eco Fighters
Eco Fighters arcade flyer.jpg
Developer(s) Capcom
Publisher(s) Capcom
Producer(s) Yoshiki Okamoto
Designer(s) Keisuke Mori
Programmer(s) Katsuhiko Someya
Kazuhiko Komori
Manabu Kawase
Artist(s) Hiroaki Minobe
Makoto Ishii
Masaru Nishimura
Composer(s) Shun Nishigaki
Platform(s) Arcade
Release
Genre(s) Horizontally scrolling shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade system CP System II

Eco Fighters [a] is a 1994 side-scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. [2] [3] As suggested by both its titles, the game has an "eco-friendly" theme.

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Gameplay

The game is a horizontal shooter, where the player controls a ship with a rotating weapon. This rotating weapon ensures that the ship does not require complex navigation to destroy enemy objects in inconvenient spots, while still needing to avoid enemy projectiles; this makes the game resemble more of a bullet hell game than most side-scrolling shooters from Capcom.

Development and release

Eco Fighters was developed by the same team from two Mega Man arcade titles, The Power Battle and The Power Fighters .

Capcom re-released Eco Fighters for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2006 as part of the Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 and Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded for the PSP. The game was also playable on the GameTap online service.

Reception

Notes

  1. Known as Ultimate Ecology (Japanese: アルティメット エコロジー, Hepburn: Arutimetto Ekorojī) in Japan.

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