1943: The Battle of Midway, known in Japan as 1943: Midway Kaisen , is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game released by Capcom in June 1987. The game is set in the Pacific theater of World War II, off the coast of the Midway Atoll. The goal is to attack the Japanese Air Fleet that bombed the players' American Aircraft Carrier, pursue all Japanese Air and Sea forces, fly through the 16 levels of play, make their way to the Japanese battleship Yamato and destroy her. 11 Levels consist of an Air-to-Sea battle , while 5 levels consist of an all-aerial battle against a squadron of Japanese... Bombers and a Mother Bomber that needs to be destroyed. As in 1942, players pilot a P-38. Two buttons are used: one for regular attacks and one for special actions that executes either a loop like in 1942 or one of three special attacks that damage the plane. Unlike 1942, the player only has one life, with one refillable energy meter.
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| Release date: | 1987 |
| Publisher: | Capcom |
| Designer: | Yoshiki Okamoto |