
3rd Super Robot Wars Alpha: To the End of the Galaxyġ. This game can be played also in a versions for Game Boy and Genesis. is a 1990 platform arcade game released in 1990 by Toaplan. The gameplay is similar to Bubble Bobble, released in 1986. The game supports up to two players, with each player taking the part of one of two snowmen Nick and Tom. Gameplay For further information about the gameplay, see: Gameplay of Snow Bros. Each player can throw snow at the enemies. 2: With New Elves is a platform game similar to Bubble Bobble where players must traverse through six increasingly difficult worlds composed of multiple stages, each with a boss at the end that must be fought before progressing any further to ultimately resuce the kidnapped princess as the main objective. Players fight enemies by throwing snow at them enemies until it is completely covered and turns into a snowball, while partially covered enemies in snow cannot move until it shakes it off. Once an enemy has been turned into a snowball, the player can roll it and rebound off of walls until eventually shattering against a wall, trapping any enemies on its way.Ī new addition are three new playable characters, each with their own method of dispatching enemies from the playfield, however the snowman Nick was omitted in the sequel. Another gameplay objective is to complete the words "EXTRA" at the bottom center by grabbing orbs left by defeated enemies that changes between letters and completing "EXTRA" gives the player an extra live, in addition of immediately advancing to the next stage.Īs with the first entry, the game hosts a number of hidden bonus secrets to be found, which are crucial for reaching high-scores to obtain extra lives. If a single player is downed, their character is immediately respawned.

Getting hit by enemy fire or colliding against solid stage obstacles will result in losing a live, as well as a penalty of decreasing the characters firepower and speed to his original state and once all lives are lost, the game is over unless the players insert more credits into the arcade machine to continue playing. 2: With New Elves served as one of the final projects to be developed by Toaplan, as the company ceased development of shoot em up games prior to their closure. The soundtrack was co-composed by Osamu Ōta and Ryūichi Yabuki, although neither are credited as such in the game.
