Eco Fighters

Eco Fighters, known in Japan as Ultimate Ecology (アルティメットエコロジー?), is an arcade game released by Capcom on the CPS-2 arcade system board on December 1993. The game is a horizontal shooter, where the player controls a ship with a rotating gun. As suggested by both its titles, the game has an "eco-friendly" theme. It was also developed by the same team from two Mega Man arcade titles, The Power Battles and The Power Fighters.

Also known as: アルティメットエコロジー · Ultimate Ecology
Released: 1 December 1993
Platforms: Arcade
Genres: Shoot 'em up Shooter
Developers: Capcom
Publishers: Capcom
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Country: Japan

About

Eco Fighters is a 1994 horizontally scrolling shooter developed and published by Capcom as an arcade video game. As suggested by both its titles, the game has an "eco-friendly" theme.

Keywords

rail shooter
shoot 'em up
spaceship
side-scrolling
on-rails
boss fight
broken english

Media

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Gameplay

The game is a horizontal shooter, where the player controls a ship with a rotating weapon. This rotating weapon ensures that the ship does not require complex navigation to destroy enemy objects in inconvenient spots, while still needing to avoid enemy projectiles; this makes the game resemble more of a bullet hell game, than most side-scrolling shooters from Capcom.

Development

Eco Fighters was developed by the same team from two Mega Man arcade titles, The Power Battle and The Power Fighters.

Capcom re-released Eco Fighters for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2006 as part of the Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 and Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded for the PSP. The game was also playable on the GameTap online service.