This is a game I got the idea for after seeing a news articles about the discovery or Hitler's lost aircraft carrier, Graf Zeppelin. The plot (which is omitted from the game) is that upon raising the aircraft carrier from the ocean depthes, Hitler's spirit is released and possesses the ship, threatening the world. To counter him, you get in a plane and fly through multiple international locales battling the spectral nazi war machine.
It actually started as a joke really, like "Why do they only send one ship in Gradeus or R-Type or all of those games?". Anyways, here are the controls.
Controls
- Move: Arrow Keys
- Machinegun: Space
- Fire missile: Z
- Drop bomb: X
- Pause: Shift
The game game originally had multiple upgrades for the ship (six weapons, shields, armor, speed bonuses, warp drives, etc). This sort of got out of hand, especially for an eight level game. Therefore, I cut down all the upgrades to basically missiles, bombs, and machineguns. I found that switching between weapons so often was cumbersome and trying to blast everything with a rapid fire machinengun was the most fun anyways.
While there is no specific order of levels to play, the intended order was
- Training
- City Under Siege
- Bomber Assault
- Aryan Baron
- Mid Atlantic
- Base Defense
- Obelisk
- New Berlin
- Graf Zeppelin
but you can play in whatever order you want.