Cyber Police ESWAT Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]

Developed and published by Sega in 1989

ESWAT was one of the first Sega arcade games I longplayed, and I still have something of a soft spot for it. It's an evolution of the formula used in Shinobi: a platform-based shoot 'em up with upper and lower play fields, with the shuriken-hurling ninja replaced with a chain-gun toting cybercop.

What made this game particularly cool is the way you don't start out as a member of ESWAT right away. Instead, you have to earn your stripes by busting low-ranking criminals in a trilogy of opening missions, with a final promotion granting you access to the ESWAT division, armoured combat suit, and a series of more deadly missions. It's a progression curve I'd never experienced in an arcade game before, and one of the reasons why I kept feeding coins into the machine; I wanted to see what came next!

Chapters
00:00 Attract Mode
00:47 Mission 1
01:48 Mission 2
02:51 Mission 3
03:57 Mission 4
07:03 Mission 5
10:30 Mission  6
14:04 Mission 7
17:56 Ending

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