Arcade Video game published 41 years ago:

Sky Destroyer (c) 1985 Taito Corporation.

An excellent and challenging shoot'em up game.

The player controls a World War II Japanese monoplane of color green, furrowing the sky over enemy waters.

The pilot has to avoid missiles and destroy a variety of enemies like Submarines, Aircraft, a Navy Destroyer and a Mid-Boss Heavy bombers and the final Bosses to clear next stages and go to bonus zone.

At each new phase the colour of the sky changes according to day cycle, starts (night, Morning and afternoon) later a hostile island, could view on the horizon and the attack of the enemy becomes more intense.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 6 Mhz) Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 3 Mhz) Sound Chips: (2x) Yamaha YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Screen orientation: Horizontal Video resolution: 256 x 224 pixels Screen refresh: 60.00 Hz Palette colors: 256

Players: 2 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 2

- TRIVIA -

Sky Destroyer was released in May 1985 in Japan only. Due to its theme, this game was not distributed in USA.

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES: Nintendo Famicom (1985) "Sky Destroyer [Model TFC-SD-4500]"

* COMPUTERS: Apple II (198?)

Player layout in our catalog: 2P alt.

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Open Play on this page to start Sky Destroyer (Japan). Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Sky Destroyer (Japan) is filed in our catalog as a 1985 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P alt.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Shooter.

Credit line lists Taito Corporation as developer.