{"id":3643,"date":"2013-09-18T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2017-11-26T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T15:18:47","slug":"thunder-cross-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/09\/18\/thunder-cross-arcade\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Cross (arcade)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/61512325459\/thunder-cross\">Thunder Cross<\/a>\u00a0(arcade)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/darth-azrael.tumblr.com\/post\/61512325459\/thunder-cross\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_moe7qa2nvq1rslmono1_5001.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thunder Cross is a size-scrolling shooter released as an arcade game by Konami in 1988. This type of game was extremely common during this time period and while Thunder Cross is a decent game, it doesn&#8217;t really stand out from the crowd. In fact, a home version was never released in North America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/file.army\/i\/L3wtXQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/404store.com\/2017\/11\/20\/thunder_cross_title.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thunder Cross did offer a few features that were new at the time, including multiple scrolling background layers. The arcade game was popular enough to spawn sequels including Thunder Cross 2 and Space Manbow though I don&#8217;t think either of these was released outside of Japan. There was also a budget home release of Thunder Cross on the PlayStation 2, but only in Japan. There is also an upcoming PlayStation 4 downloadable release but again, I believe it will only be available in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/file.army\/i\/L3wiGL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/404store.com\/2017\/11\/20\/thunder_cross_screen.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Short of tracking down an original arcade machine, there aren&#8217;t a lot of ways to play this game. You could track down the Japanese only PS2 release but the best option is probably emulation via MAME. It&#8217;s worth a try if you are a fan of shooters like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunder Cross\u00a0(arcade) Thunder Cross is a size-scrolling shooter released as an arcade game by Konami in 1988. This type of game was extremely common during this time period and while Thunder Cross is a decent game, it doesn&#8217;t really stand out from the crowd. In fact, a home version was never released in North America. Thunder Cross did offer a few features that were new at the time, including multiple scrolling background layers. The arcade game was popular enough to spawn sequels including Thunder Cross 2 and Space Manbow though I don&#8217;t think either of these was released outside of Japan. There was also a budget home release of Thunder Cross on the PlayStation 2, but only in Japan. There is also an upcoming PlayStation 4 downloadable release but again, I believe it will only be available in Japan. Short of tracking down an original arcade machine, there aren&#8217;t a lot of ways to play this game. You could track down the Japanese only PS2 release but the best option is probably emulation via MAME. It&#8217;s worth a try if you are a fan of shooters like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[202,1003,1787],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro-games","tag-arcade","tag-konami","tag-thunder-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}