Revolution X – The Aerosmith game.

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Revolution X – 1994 – Midway

Revolution X is a 1994 arcade rail shooter game developed and published by Midway, featuring the rock band Aerosmith. The game features gameplay similar to Midway’s earlier Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The original arcade version uses a positional gun that works like an analog stick to control a visible on-screen cursor.

Plot

The plot concerns a dystopian version of 1996 where an alliance of corrupt government and corporate military forces have taken control of the world in the guise of the “New Order Nation” (NON). The NON, with their vampish commander Head Mistress Helga (portrayed by Kerri Hoskins), have declared war on youth culture (anyone aged from 13 to 30) and have banned all forms of music, television, magazines, and video games.
The player first travels to “Club X” in Los Angeles to see Aerosmith perform live, but the band is captured by NON troops and hustled off the stage (only shown when the player reaches inside the theater). From here, the player enters the band’s dressing room and watches a videotaped message from Steven Tyler before escaping the building (by shooting the mirror). Next, the player flies an NON chopper across the city in order to destroy a second, heavily armed chopper and find the band’s car. The player must then destroy three key NON facilities in the Amazon jungle, the Sahara Desert, and the Pacific Rim, and collect Aerosmith wings before traveling to Wembley Stadium in London for a final confrontation with Helga, who morphs into a claymation monster who can fire machine guns and rocket launchers with its hands and feet. If the players have collected all five sets of wings by locating the members of the band, once the Helga/monster is destroyed, they become honored guests at the Aerosmith concert.

Gameplay

The game is a standard side-scrolling rail shooter in which the player has to shoot targets including NON soldiers and vehicles, with the ultimate goal of rescuing the band. The five members of Aerosmith are hidden in secret locations throughout the game, and all must be found in order to see the real ending and have access to collecting high-value Mammy Awards. Players start the game at Club X in Los Angeles, then commandeer a NON chopper for a flight across the city. They may then play three more levels in any order: the Amazon jungle, the Middle East and Pacific Rim. Finally, the players advance to Wembley Stadium for the final battle with Helga and the surviving NON forces.
Throughout the game, boxes constantly drop containing Power-Ups like Health-Up shakes, CDs, the more powerful Laserdiscs, Super Guns, Skull Bombs and shields. Players can find bikini-clad female hostages, and free them throughout the game for extra points.

Development and release

Mortal Kombat II features an advertisement with the old Revolution X logo that arcade operators could toggle on and off. Occasionally after a large in-game explosion, Steven Tyler can be heard saying “Toasty!” in a high-pitched voice in reference to an easter egg in Mortal Kombat II.
The first release labeled Proto 5.0 (5/23/1994) is lacking several speech samples spoken by members of Aerosmith, a shorter Pacific Rim level and the old Aerosmith logo. Revision 1.0 (6/16/1994) restored the missing speech samples and has the complete Pacific Rim level and completed the both new crosshair in P2 and P3 and the current Aerosmith logo.
Revolution X was released as upright two player and deluxe three player arcade units and as a conversion kit for existing Terminator 2: The Arcade Game and Alien 3: The Gun units.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack consists of several Aerosmith songs continuously looped, including “Eat The Rich”, “Sweet Emotion”, “Toys in the Attic” and “Walk This Way”. A Muzak version of “Love in an Elevator” plays in the elevator part of the Amazon Jungle level. The soundtrack was featured in the CD Offer after playing or during attract mode.

The console versions included loops of “Rag Doll” for the attract screen, main menu, and score, “Fever” for the Middle East level, and “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” for the ending.

Ports

The arcade game was later ported by Acclaim to several home video game consoles and to computers running DOS. The Super NES, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Sony PlayStation and PC versions were developed by Rage Software while the Sega Saturn version was developed by Software Creations.
None of the home versions is light gun compatible. The Super NES and Sega Genesis ports tone down the blood and the exotic dancers (also played by Kerri Hoskins) who were showing off their thongs have been turned around so they are facing the screen. CD-based console versions feature more blood, but the dancers are still facing the screen.

The Revolution X – Jamma (arcade) Board :

 

 

Source : Wikipedia.

Some videos :

A nice arcade promo.

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Arcade Gameplay.

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Genesis Version.

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SNES Version

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Saturn Version

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