Ludography
SOS cover

1979 · Namco · Fixed shooter · Puzzle

SOS

A black and white airplane shooter.

Released
1979
Platforms
Arcade
Genres
Fixed shooterPuzzleShooter
Developers
Namco
Publishers
Namco
Country
Japan

About

SOS Game is a shoot 'em up arcade game that was released by Namco in 1979. It was one of the three final monochromatic titles that was released by the company; the other two were Navarone and Kaitei Takara Sagashi.

Keywords

  • world war ii - ww2
  • non-player character

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The player must use a 2-way joystick to direct a fighter plane across the bottom of the screen, while enemy planes fly down towards it from the top of the screen; they can press the button to make the plane fire bullets from its nose at the enemy planes to destroy them for 10 points apiece. The plane can only fire one bullet at a time, and if it misses the player will have to wait for the bullet to go off the top of the screen before he can try again.

Occasionally, a flashing arrow will appear, and point to either side of the screen while an "SOS" signal is being heard in Morse Code. If the player can manage to move the plane to that side of the screen before the "SOS" signal stops, he will receive 30 extra points, and the number of enemy planes that have bypassed it will decrease by 9 (but if the amount is under 9 at the time, it will have no effect).

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Releases by platform
PlatformReleasedRegions
Arcade1 June 1979Worldwide

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Publishers

  • Namco gamesArcade-based games › Namco proprietary arcade systems

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