Thundercade

Thundercade
Arcade flyer
Developers	SETA Micronics (NES)
Publishers	SETA American Sammy (NES)
Platforms	Arcade, NES
Release	Arcade NA: 1987[1] NES NA: July 1989[2]
Genre	Scrolling shooter[2]
Modes	Single-player[3] Multiplayer[3]

Thundercade, also known as Twin Formation and 特殊部隊UAG (Tokushu Butai U.A.G., "Special Forces U.A.G. (Un-Attached Grenadier))", is a vertically scrolling shooter developed by SETA and released as an arcade game in 1987. A version for the Nintendo Entertainment System from American Sammy was released in 1989.

The original arcade flyer establishes that despite a 199X treaty eliminating all nuclear weapons, a certain northerly nation was suspected of developing such weapons in secret. Therefore, the United States of America military sends in the U.A.G. elite unit consisting of an armed motorcyclist and a support bomber to quell the threat.^[4] The American NES version's manual describes a slightly different story, casting players as a part of Operation Thundercade, a special forces operation battling against the nuclear threat of the Atomic Age Terrorist Organization of Miracali (AATOM).^[5][6]

Players control a motorcycle equipped with sidecar cannons and backed up by a B-7 bomber.^[5] There are four levels in the game: an unnamed city, the terrorists' military base, the woodland regions, and the fortress containing the nuclear power plant.^[6] Bosses include a submarine along with other screen-filling enemies.

1. ^ Thundercade Arcade information at GameFAQs
2. ^ ^{a b} Thundercade NES information at GameFAQs
3. ^ ^{a b} Thundercade at Game Kult
4. ^ "Tokusyu Butai UAG - Taito (Video Game, 1987) - Japan".
5. ^ ^{a b} Thundercade at MobyGames
6. ^ ^{a b} Thundercade at allgame
7. ^ "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 322. Amusement Press, Inc. 15 December 1987. p. 25.

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