Hudson Best Collection Vol. 5 is a collection of three shooting-focused games by Hudson.
Included in this cartridge:
Star Force
Star Soldier
Starship Hector
World Reborn is a GBA Horizontal Shooter that was developed but not released back in the early 2000's. The game was developed by an indie team which then later moved on to developing bigger licensed-franchise projects for publishers.
World Reborn is not like your normal shooter game, as it is also a game with role playing game elements as well. In World Reborn we are introduced to a world where mankind has lost all records of its history, discoveries, and their achievements In this horizontal shooter you will choose your stage and attack back at the enemy. Collect XP from kills and from pick-ups in the stages and rank both yourself and your ship up to increase your combat abilities. 6 powerful pickups that will enhance or change your weapon, give secondary fire, boost your speed and more will be at your disposal. All your progress in this game will be safe through the use of an intricate password save.
The game was released on the internet by the original developers in 2008 and later released in cartridge form by
In the year A.D. 18XX, under the dictator Sauron, a military nation of the MotorHead Empire invaded the surrounding countries, but the nation of Silverhead stood defiantly. With the help of the ultimate weapon, No.012X Imamio Thunder, you have to blast away enemies and save the world in this port of the oft-forgotten classic Hot-B shooter for the Genesis. The game's strategy system features the ability to level up your two chooseable ships independently as you progress, and the original's throwback ship designs and frantic every-direction shooting gameplay is preserved in this remake.
You are in an elite fighting team called Strike Force Hydra. You and your squadron must defeat the enemy! Direct your Hovership through the acquatic battlefields, destroying the enemy and everything they fire at you.
YOUR MISSION is to destroy all the aliens you encounter, while protecting the ten people assigned to each moon that you visit. Survive past all 4 moons and you will have earned your reward of being trans-warped back home to earth, 500 million miles away, to a hero's welcome.
Colonel Grimm has ordered the defeat of the Tan Army and chosen a two-man Special Forces team for the mission. This Special Forces team will consist of the Blue Spy and you, Sgt. Hawk. Battle through several different backyard environments with the ultimate goal of destroying the Tan Army. Good luck, soldier!
A U.S. recon team reports a terrorist cell is planning a major attack in the Middle East, hoping to overrun the oil refineries of the Gulf States to fuel worldwide terror. To secure our freedom you must hunt down and destroy this threat before it strikes. Take command of a deadly gunship to deal America's wraith in the steel jacketed fury of today's deadliest weapon systems. The game features 10 operation levels with air, land and sea missions, topped by elaborate boss fights. Your gunship's tactical weapon systems include machine guns, hydra rockets and homing missiles. There are also weapon and armor power-ups found throughout the game. Use radar to keep on top of targets and enjoye the real-time 3D graphics packed with realistic visual effects. Features multiple difficulty levels.
Climb behind the trigger and again help our distressed farmer friend obliterate hordes of no good cluckers! Stalk through forests and villages, through deserts and mountains, winging winged adversaries and piling up points! The cartoon feel is all Saturday morning fun, but as the missions progress in difficulty, you'll soon find yourself challenged to the limit of your Kentucky Fried skills!
Invaders from space have landed on Earth, but you have a housewarming gift they're not going to like. Hop into your Solvalou and take back Earth in Xevious, part of the NES Classics Series on the Game Boy Advance. In this vertical-scrolling game, it's up to you to shoot air targets and bomb ground forces in the effort to bring down the alien motherships. Each level contains hidden bonus points, extra lives, and more secrets.
An FBI agent and a rogue NSA agent are pitted against each other in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Both skilled assassins bent on personal revenge, each must terminate the other in order to survive. But unknown to each other, they are both pawns in a much larger conspiracy. Now the as the hunters become the hunted, they must both determine who the real enemy is.
Silent Scope is an arcade game that puts the player in the shoes of a sniper during a series of terrorist incidents. The game uses a rifle that is mounted on the console, requiring players to physically alter their position in order to shoot accurately. In addition, the rifle's scope displays a close-up view of a small portion of the screen, representing the sniper's long-range view of the area where the rifle is pointed.
Domingoaniax and his army of mutants and robot soldiers have taken control of the secret moon base. For months these aliens have been abducting humans and assimilating them into an army of droids that can be used to overwhelm Earth. As our last hope, you must help Jim Track infiltrate the moon base and succeed where many others before him have failed. Destroy every alien or assimilated human you encounter, port back as many unassimilated humans from the pods as possible, and then trigger the self-destruct sequence to terminate the moon base and the remaining aliens.
The two special agents Masato Kanzaki and Mizuki Makimura receive a new important mission: destroying the ultimate weapon the enemy is developing in its secret base.
Penta Dragon is a shooter developed by Japan Art Media and published by Yanoman Corporation for the Game Boy platform. Players take control of Sara, the mythical snake child. Sara is the child of a human and a dragon. When Sara was born she was given one of her mothers magical eyes, but the time has now come for her to set out and recover the other one.
Taiyou no Yusha Fighbird is technically a vertically scrolling shoot'em'up game by design, though the in-game representation differs a bit from normal as you take control of a mech that can fire off energy blades. It is based off a TV show, and is one of two Fighbird games ever released, the other being another shmup game for the Famicom.
In Torpedo Range, terrorists have basically somehow taken over most of
the world. As a one-ship operation, you have to free six countries from the
terrorists' grasp to win the game: to do this, you must visit a port at each of
the six countries and destroy all the guns on the port in a shooting mini-game
to 'liberate' the country.
A sci-fi Light Gun game from Bandai that came packaged with the Hyper Shot Light Gun for the Famicom.
Space Shadow is an on-rails sci-fi Light Gun game from Bandai that takes its inspiration from the claustrophobic killer aliens movie Aliens. The player walks down an octagonal hallway and shoots any hostile extra-terrestrial life that bursts forth from one of the side-passages or the ceiling.
Space Shadow was the pack-in game for the Bandai Hyper Shot, a sub-machine gun shaped Light Gun for the Famicom. Despite the fact that Light Gun games tended to do far better in the US, neither the Hyper Shot nor this game were ever released outside of Japan.
In A.D. 20XX, humans are engaged in fierce warfare with TASAC - the alien bionic mutants. Landsy and Dagrel, commanders of Earth Defense Arms, are encountering the toughest enemies known to man. They must destroy TASAC to rescue the Earth, otherwise humans will be turned into slaves under the TASAC terrorism!