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10222874 No.10222874 [Reply] [Original]

HAL tries their hand at a shmup.

>> No.10222896

>>10222874
Hmmm... was the shooter section of Kirby Super Star based on this game? I wouldn't put it past HAL.

>> No.10222959
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10222959

>the escape sequence after you destroy the core of each fortress

>> No.10222983
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10222983

I had this game as a kid and I don't even know why, how, or when I got it
>it sucks balls

>> No.10223001

>>10222874
>durr do the game again or no ending for u
glad HAL got their shit together eventually

>> No.10223109

>>10223001
that's similar to Fist of the North Star.
>no you can't get to the last level and properly finish the game unless you beat the rest of it without using continues

>> No.10223132

>>10223001
Kirby's Dream Land still did it. You don't get the full ending until you clear the harder Extra Mode.

>> No.10223340

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1toRstforKo

I'm a 298lbs. man who walks around my balcony in the nude playing this music. At 0:45 I salute my 4 inch penis.

>> No.10223430

>>10223340
I really like the title theme too, not as much as you seem to like it but I really do like it.

>> No.10223818

>SHMUP

more like action sidescrolling game except you can fly around

>> No.10223823

>>10223340
Is that BPEL?

>> No.10223828
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10223828

>>10222874
>tries
HAL started out as a home computer shovelware factory. They did a shmup years before Air Fortress

>> No.10224006

I wonder how Nintendo treats the HAL ips? I assume since they are 2nd party, Nintendo could do with them as they wish. Have they ever shown up on one of their virtual services? Stuff like Eggerland, Arcana, Radar Rat Race and Trax I would assume are all technically Nintendo IPs now like Glory of Heracles.

I remember discovering Air Fortress at a thrift store in the early 2000s and for a long time i figured for sure that the main character, Hal, was going to be in the next Smash brothers.

>> No.10224084

>>10224006
HAL still releases some games independently, Part Time UFO for mobile phones being a recent example. Since they have never been outright accuired by Nintendo, they probably retain their old IPs.

>> No.10224121

>>10224006
VIC20 Nintendo Switch Online when

>> No.10224132

>>10223828
Home computer shovelware: :/
Japanese home computer shovelware: :O

>> No.10224282

>>10224132
kek

>> No.10224306

>>10224006
I feel like at least one HAL game that wasn't Kirby showed up on Switch Online, but I'm not totally sure.
>>10222896
Could be. But HAL likes putting shmup elements into Kirby games anyway.
Then again, Dream Land 3 had blatant nods to Hyperzone, so Nova being an Air Fortress reference isn't that unlikely.

>> No.10224321

>>10224306
Adventures of Lolo is on NSO. Is it credited to HAL as a publisher there?