Archer Maclean's Super Dropzone
The player is a spaceman with a jet-pack, flying across a barren landscape whose skies are inhabited by a number of different aliens; from the simple Planter to the slowly advancing Blunder Storm or the quick…
Archer Maclean's Super Dropzone is a shooter developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software, released 1 December 1995 on Game Boy Advance, PlayStation and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Archer Maclean's Super Dropzone is
Archer Maclean's Super Dropzone is a shooter game developed by Eurocom Entertainment Software and released in 1995. It was published by Ignition Entertainment. It is available on Game Boy Advance, PlayStation and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The action takes place on the moons of Jupiter, as well as on Jupiter itself. At the last level on each moon the player has to defeat a planet guardian. To do this the player has to hit them in their glowing green nerve centre that is exposed at times as they move around. Each wave starts with all remaining humans being beamed up by a leader enemy and to release the men it has to be defeated.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Archer Maclean's Super Dropzone launched on 1 December 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Rayman.
Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Rayman.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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