Description Source: en.wikipedia.org Elevator Action (エレベーターアクション Erebētā Akushon?) is a 1983 arcade game by Taito. It debuted during the ’Golden Age of Arcade Games’. Innovative in gameplay this game was fairly popular for many years. The musician was Yoshino Imamura. The game was followed by a sequel Elevator Action II (also known as Elevator Action Returns). Description The player assumes the role of a spy who infiltrates a building filled with elevators. He must collect secret documents from the building and traverse the 30 levels of the building using an increasingly complex series of elevators. The player is pursued by enemy agents who appear from behind closed doors. The player must outwit them via force or evasion. Successful completion of a level involves collecting all the secret documents and traversing the building from top to bottom. In the lower floors of the building the elevator systems are so complex that some puzzle-solving skills are needed. The game cabinet was a standard upright. The controls consisted of a 4-way joystick and two buttons one for ’shoot’ and the other for jumping and kicking. The graphics are extremely simple 2D color graphics. The maximum number of players is two alternating turns. Gameplay The player assumes the role of Agent 17 codename: ’Otto’ a secret agent for an unspecified organization or government. As Otto the player must ’acquire’ (steal) a series of secret documents from a tall building which Otto b.../b
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