Crisis Force (NES/Konami/1991) [720p]

Crisis Force (クライシスフォース?) is a vertical-scrolling shooting game released by Konami exclusively in Japan for the Family Computer on August 27, 1991. As Konami’s final shooting game for the Famicom, the game was developed to push the hardware’s specifications to its limits and utilized Konami’s custom VRC4 chip (previously used for the Famicom version of Gradius II) to allow for four-way scrolling and large bosses. However because of the game’s late release during the Famicom’s lifespan, a year after the launch of its successor the Super Famicom, Crisis Force did not achieve the popularity that Konami expected. The main feature of Crisis Force is the player’s ability to alter the form of his ship and change its attack method. The Aurawing has three primary forms, the “Front Offense Type“, which specializes in shooting enemies in front of the ship, the “Side Offense Type“, which focuses on attacking the left and right sides at the same time, and the “Rear Offense Type“, which focuses on shooting from behind. Ea