- Deep Blue Kaitei Shinwa
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Deep Blue Kaitei Shinwa Developer(s) NEC, Pack-In-Video Publisher(s) NEC Platform(s) TurboGrafx-16 Release date(s) Genre(s) Shoot' em up Mode(s) Single-player Media/distribution Cartridge Deep Blue (Deep Blue Kaitei Shinwa in Japan) is an underwater shooter video game created in 1989 by NEC for the TurboGrafx-16. In it, you control a submersible fighter shaped as a Freshwater angelfish that must fight through waves of mutated marine life.
Contents
Story
A hostile alien presence has descended upon the Earth's waters. Using their own bacteria, the aliens have infected and mutated numerous deep sea and marine life forms causing them to enlarge and to follow every alien command. The aliens use their infected marine life to attack the shores of the Earth's continents, initiating an invasion from the deep. Alone, players control the Earth's only defense against the attack, the A.N.G.E.L. Fish Attack Sub.
Gameplay
As far as shooters go, Deep Blue was a basic horizontal scrolling shooter: players collected power-ups and different weapons to fight their numerous enemies with. Players were able to scale up and down the screen allowing them more space amongst levels. What differentiates Deep Blue from most however is the challenge the controls feature: the player's Angel Fish is extremely slow while most of its enemies are incredibly fast.
Players were given a chance at survival as the Angel Fish took a few hits before exploding (or imploding in this case) as the ship's energy was gauged by the color of its 'eyes'; The eyes of the ship start out a solid blue, but when damaged, the eyes blink blue until going to green, then yellow and red. Players would also lose any and all power-ups once damaged by an enemy and 90% of the enemies used kamikaze methods, so agility was very crucial to survival.
Weapons and Power-Ups
Weapons
Pulse Bullet - The sub's default fire-arm, it is a weak, but quick firing weapon. Proffered as a brown circle resembling a fish-egg.
Bubble Beam - A long beam of strong bubbles that can be extended depending on the longer the fire button is held down. Proffered as a blob of purple bubbles.
Swirl Cutter - The strongest of the three weapons, but also the slowest firing. Proffered as a green vortex.
Power-Ups
Healing Power - Fully increase the strength of the player's sub, proffered as a circle of brown reefs.
Speed Power - A green, V shaped object that drastically increases the speed of the player's sub.
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