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. Although it is often referred to as a light gun game, the original arcade version uses a positional gun that works like an analog stick to control a visible on-screen cursor.
There was a plan to create a Revolution X sequel starring Public Enemy, but Midway believed the Aerosmith game lacked sufficient popularity to create another one like it
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 New Order Nation, a corrupt alliance of government and big business, is set to take over the world. Their primary mission is to subvert the power and influence of today's youth and rid the globe of anything that's fun. Lead by Headmistress Helga, their first course of action is to abduct Aerosmith, America's premier rock band. It's your job to rescue them and make life fun again.
Armed with a machine gun and an auto-load multi-CD launcher, you must guide a gunsight around each scene of the six levels of play, shooting everything and anyone that moves and a lot of things that don't move. Many of the things you shoot reveal pickups that will help you along the way.
These pickups include CDs, a super gun, laserdiscs (which cause more damage than CDs), shields, skull bombs, and wheat grass shakes, which give you a dose of energy. During your mission, you'll free dancing girls from Los Angeles Club X, destroy NON helicopters, shoot your way inside a chemical factory in the Amazon Jungle, travel to the Middle East to free teens from a mind-control camp, destroy a chemical warehouse in the Pacific Rim, and finally face down the Headmistress herself at a Wembley Stadium Aerosmith concert.
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 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.
STORY:
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 Mistress Helga (portrayed by Kerri Hoskins), have declared war on youth culture (anyone aged from 13 to 30) and have banned music, television and video games as well as magazines and are stricly forbidden. At a gig in Los Angeles at 'Club X', complete with neon sign, Aerosmith are captured by NON troops once the player reached inside the theater. When the players reach the restroom, the first Aerosmith member appears on one of the sides of the entrance and the second one is on top of the ladder.
Manufacturer's description:
SHOOT-'EM-UP ACTION STRAIGHT FROM THE #1 ARCADE MEGA-HIT!
Here's the deal...
The New Order Nation - a powerful, corrupt alliance is crushing today's youth and destroying all things fun. It's a gruesome regime, under the iron rule of Headmistress Helga, a vicious vamp whose obvious attractions are fatal.
Suddenly, America's premier rock band, Aerosmith, is abducted by NON forces.
Now it's up to you to stop the destruction... and Music is the Weapon!
Features:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- SCI-FI & Futuristic themes.
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