This is the 566th original article of the old boy game box, by @Overlord Crab
When a crab was small, one day in the arcade room accidentally saw a new arcade machine, the heroine image above immediately shocked the crab's young heart, the perfect and well-proportioned body wearing a red and white bikini, seeing such a flesh feeling of blood and qi surging up the face hot, and embarrassed to look directly, can only pretend to be calm to peek...
I don't know how many friends have guessed the name of this game, which is Sega's work "Tomahawk" that was popular in arcade rooms that year.
Speaking of the origin of the arcade "Tomahawk", it can be traced back to the Marvel comics "Conan the Barbarian" in the 70s - of course, this Conan is not a glasses schoolboy who dies every time he appears, but a muscular hero Conan who is as strong as an ox. This hero who grew up in the wilderness won the praise of the gods with his tenacity and steely flesh, and gave him the sword of the king to help him navigate the rivers and lakes. Because the comic was highly sought after at the time, in the 80s, the young Governor Arno starred in the film adaptation of the same name, and the old crab also saw this hard drive that year, the governor's muscles were more powerful than the depiction of the comic version, and the cool and retro costumes of the female characters were very fascinating. Taking advantage of the popularity of the movie, Sega Company at that time developed and produced this arcade "Tomahawk" game in order to rub the heat.
The arcade "Tomahawk" obviously borrows from "Conan the Barbarian" in terms of character setting, and the male protagonist AxBattler also has inverted triangle muscles, but the design of the face is different from Conan, AxBattler is with a bit of oriental restraint and wisdom in it. The heroine is the Amazon warrior TyrisFlare, not only martial arts and skillful use of magic, the body and appearance are Peugeot beauty, in the game every move is full of charm, even the posture of falling to the ground is very sultry.
The third protagonist is Gilius ThunderHead of the Dwarves, the most powerful of the three, but the relative magic is weaker.
So what story does this arcade "Tomahawk" tell? It is said that the evil monarch DeathAdder obtained the "Tomahawk" GoldenAxe, which led unlimited power, which even surpassed death, so he led a terrorist army of barbarians and necromancers to destroy the six-hundred-year-old FireWood Kingdom to establish his own hegemony, and after twenty years of martial arts, he destroyed the SouthWood Kingdom and captured the king and princess. At this time, the three warriors of the FireWood Kingdom who survived twenty years ago returned from learning martial arts abroad, and saw the disaster of the former motherland befall this peaceful country again, how can they endure such atrocities again? So the warriors rushed to DeathAdder's magic palace to prepare for resistance.
Compared with the arcade games of the same period, the arcade "Tomahawk" actually implemented a dimensionality reduction blow to the "Kombat Whirlwind" of the same era. The work is very rich in action design, and the protagonist's battle is not simply a weapon sticking out from the front of the body, but so detailed that the sword swing action in each frame is real and believable, which is completely incomparable to "Kombat Whirlwind". The addition of arcade Tomahawk sprints and throws provides multiple options for tactics, sprint flying kicks are very useful, and more advanced skills are sprint jumping vertical inserts, which used to be called "heart-piercing swords" by friends, and those among us who can skillfully use and hit enemies can be ranked as masters.
In addition to the novelty of the action, the arcade "Tomahawk" also designed a mount system, there are two types: parrot beast and fire dragon. At first, the enemy miscellaneous soldiers rode out like they were invincible, knocked them down, and we could mount our mounts ourselves, but we had to be careful that if we were attacked by the enemy, we would fall to the ground, and then the mounts would be snatched back, and many times we were greedy for the majesty of the mounts and were beaten off a lot of blood. Speaking of this, I think of the bug that circulated in the arcade "Tomahawk" in the arcade room back then, that is, in the case of wanting to add blood, when you come to the edge of the scene, you will ensure safety and beat your teammates into empty blood, at this time, don't knock it down, otherwise you will really die, and then the character's HP will be full when the scene is over! So at that time, in the arcade hall, you can often see the scene of the two beating each other.
Arcade Tomahawk borrows from the killer system of STG flying shooters, which we all called "insurance" at the time, which was actually character magic. Each character's magic is different, and the heroine's sixth-level magic summons a big fire dragon, the strongest in the whole game, so it is not easy to provoke a woman to start a fire!
Top magic requires the collection of magic bottles, and goblin thieves will drop magic bottles in fixed areas of the scene, but they will run away if they are not careful. At the end of each level, the protagonists would nap around the campfire, and the ill-intentioned goblins would come and steal magic bottles, of course, we would say hello, which was part of the common setting bonus section of early arcades. The magic of the arcade Tomahawk can only be unleashed once, and if you use it well, you have to back the plate, and when you need it most, you can burn the entire screen of enemies with half the effort.
I remember that there was a computer class in high school, and some classmates got the disk versions of "Tomahawk" and "Double Dragon" out of nowhere, and at that time, they played these two games in the computer room in the name of learning every time, and the friends took turns to stare at the teacher. Thirty years later, the experience of fighting side by side with my partners seems to be yesterday, and the smell of youth hormones that belong to red and white bikinis.
Author: Overlord crab, an old crab shell that has been playing for more than 30 years, a gamer whose game life pays attention to game humanities
Author: Overlord Crab
Editor: Xiao Lei