Game

Grind Stormer 1992

Developed by Toaplan

  • Shooter, Arcade, Action, Science fiction

"Grind Stormer" is a 1993 vertically scrolling shooter arcade video game originally developed and published by Toaplan in Japan and North America. It is considered to be the spiritual successor to Slap Fight. Based around a video game within a video game concept, players assume the role of a young secret agent assigned by the government taking control of the NA-00 space fighter craft in an attempt to defeat the titular virtual reality simulator, rescue the abducted players who lost against it and unveil its true purpose. The game takes place in the year 2210 where 'the ultimate arcade machine' Grind Stormer/V・V has finally been released. A VR shooting game, Grind Stormer/V・V becomes so addicting that the government assigns a young man to investigate the arcade phenomenon in order to question its true purpose and to perform the impossible: to beat the game.

ShooterArcadeActionScience fictionshoot 'em upbullet hellboss fightvertical scrollingdifficulty levelauto-scrolling levelsArcade, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis

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Plot-driven, relentless, unpretentious and nostalgic.

  • character-ledplot-driven
  • contemplativerelentless
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • gravecomic

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