Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact

Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact
Developer(s)	Game Arts
Publisher(s)	Game Arts Sierra On-Line (DOS)
Director(s)	Satoshi Uesaka Ari Kamijō Kazuyuki Ohata
Producer(s)	Mitsuhiro Mazda
Designer(s)	Ari Kamijō Osamu Harada
Programmer(s)	Ari Kamijō Kazuyuki Ohata
Artist(s)	Masatoshi Azumi Masahiko Ikeya Tsuyoshi Tanaka
Writer(s)	Satoshi Uesaka
Composer(s)	Hiromi Ohba Tadashi Shimayama Masahiko Yoshimura
Platform(s)	MSX2, MS-DOS, PC-8801
Release	JP: 1989 NA: October 1990[1]
Genre(s)	Run and gun
Mode(s)	Single-player

Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact (テグザー2 ファイアーホーク), also known as Firehawk: Thexder 2, Firehawk or Thexder II, is a video game developed and published by Game Arts for the MSX2, MS-DOS and PC-8801 in 1989 as a sequel to Thexder only in Japan. The MS-DOS version was later released by Sierra On-Line.[2]

Gameplay

Plot

Reception

The One predicted that "with furious arcade action, high-resolution graphics and 11 complete songs (...) Thexder II looks set to surpass the success of the original."[3] The game was indeed well-received upon release[4][5][6] and sold well both in Japan and in the USA.[7][8][9]

References

1. "Aktueller Software Markt - Ausgabe 1990/08-09". Retrieved 2015-11-07.
2. "Sierra News Magazine, The - Volume 3 Number 3 - Fall 1990 (1990)(Sierra On-Line)(US)". 1990. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
3. "TheOne Magazine Issue 29". February 1991. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
4. "MSX Club". Retrieved 2015-11-07.
5. "MSX Magazine (1990-01)(ASCII)(JP)". January 1990. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
6. "Le site des anciennes revues informatiques". Abandonware-magazines.org. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
7. "MSX Magazine (1990-01)(ASCII)(JP)". January 1990. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
8. "MSX Force 1-12". Retrieved 2015-11-07.
9. "Micromania Segunda Epoca (Spanish) Issue 37". Retrieved 2015-11-07.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact at MobyGames