Descpription:
Alpha Mission (ASO: Armored Scrum Object in Japan) is
a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game created by SNK in 1985.
Alpha Mission is a one-player scrolling shooter game,
similar to Xevious in its segregation of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons.
Missiles are used to destroy ground enemies, while laser-like weapons
are used for aerial opponents. Throughout each of the levels, the
player must fight off waves of enemies that threaten several space
stations and a boss must be defeated at the end of each.
Like most early games in this genre, when the player dies, all weapons
are lost and the player is moved to a point slightly before the point of death.
The player's craft can also be upgraded to have more powerful
weapons by picking up various power-ups throughout the level.
