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------------------------------------- [OZMA WARS] -----------------------------
---------------------------------[by Ice Queen Zero]---------------------------
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    INTRODUCTION
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Ozma Wars is the very first game produced in 1979 by Shin Nihon Kikaku or as
most of us know them plainly as SNK. This game is not much to look at since it
was made back in the late 70's and graphics were not an issue. Hell, this game
did not have color except for black, white, and shades of grey. When you look
back on all those games made by SNK to today, they've gone a long way.

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      DISCLAIMER
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Ozma Wars and its characters are trademarks of SNK and all copyrights belong to
them.

This FAQ/Walkthrough is the sole copyright of Andrea "Azul Fria" Castillo aka
Ice Queen Zero and cannot be put on other sites or posted without my given
permission nor can it be reproduced w/o proper consent. This guide is also a
remake of my mother, Professor T's guide which I helped co-write but her career
went nowhere.

For some of my guides: http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/74803.html

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       CONTROLS
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The controls are arranged like this:

Joystick        Fire Button

The Joystick is used for left and right movement only. The Fire Button is of
course used to fire at enemies.

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     QUICK NOTES
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There are no lives in the game (technically there isn't but there is somewhat
of a feature in the 2-player game. More on that later.). Your ship is run on
energy located at the bottom-left of the screen. You start off with 15,000 pts
of energy. Your energy depletes as you move throughout the game but it goes
down severely if you take a major hit from an enemy bullet or colliding with an
enemy.

Throughout the game there are recharge ships called motherships that'll refill
your energy once you reached certain milestones of the game. It can even fill
up your ship past 15,000 pts.

The game can be for 1 or 2 player. The difference between playing on 1-player
or 2-players is that in 1-player mode, you can still continue forward after
taking a serious blow whereass a serious blow will cause the game to switch to
the other player. Think of it as lives as you will.

Some enemies blink in and out, your shots will fly past them if they blink out.
Beware of these enemies as you may accidentally collide with them when they are
blinking in.

The dangers of this game are mostly enemy projectiles but some of them can be
destroyed but you should also beware of collisions too.

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       ENEMIES
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Photon Torpedo Shooters
Asteroid Balls
Normal ships
Zoomers
Splitters
Kamikazes
Rocket
Boss Ship

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       GAMEPLAY
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First you start off with 15000 energy points but you also start off receiving
energy from the docking ship by flying into the laser. Now the adventure will
begin. Destroy as many ships as you can until the remaining ones swoop by. If
you can shoot them then leave them be. Shoot your way through some of the
asteroid balls and as you advance forward, some ships will start shooting
Photon Torpedos at you that are hard to dodge but they can be destroyed. Get
past them and some more ships will appear and swerve downward in kamikaze mode.
You'll see a rocker coming down. Destroy it and the boss appears. It will chase
you down and drop Photon Torpedos at you. Time your shots to hit the boss as it
chases you and you'll reach your second docking point.

The ships will start flying in from the screen (start small and enlarge) ignore
the side ones and stay in the middle as a base will appear in the middle of the
top of the screen, once you pass the ship, shoot immediately and you'll destroy
the ship the moment it appears and save yourself some trouble and destroy the
mini ships that branched from it. There are some spinner ships that must be
taken out in order to move forward. Carefully dodge their fire and slip in a
shot to destroy them all. Get past the ships that split into smaller ones and
the kamikaze and you'll meet that rocket again and the boss when its destroyed.
Take out the boss the same way as the earlier one and you'll reach your third
docking point.

Stay in the middle for most of this phase and especially kill the spinner in
the top of the middle of the screen and get past the splitters. Next come the
kamikazes then ships dropping Photon Torpedos. Stay in the middle so you can
kill a base ahead of time after getting past ships that zoom in, the rocket
comes back and same old story except the boss is more aggressive. The fourth
docking point is just ahead.

First the zoomers, then the splitters, then the kamikazes. The base in the
middle will appear next. Take it out quickly. The circle ships reappear and
must be taken out to advance further. Kill them quick or wait till the splitter
ships are gone before you take them out. The rocket and boss appear yada yada
yada. You will reach docking point 5 if you survive.

From here it's all about survival because it gets monotonous therefore, only
details will be given. The meteor shower from level 1 return here after the
first few ships in this area. The rocket and boss appear after the kamikaze
and this time the boss drops lasers too. After Docking Point 9 they start using
letters in its place so if you reach that part of the game, pat yourself on the
back for making it this far, and after docking point F it resets to zero. Can
you say "hexidecimal" that's how the stages worked. If you managed to get past
Docking Point 0 area, then you "beat" the game as the game will reset itself.

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       CREDITS
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SNK for making this game.
GameFAQs and other sites for hosting this FAQ.
My mother, Professor T whom gave me permission to remake this guide.
You for reading.

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       CONTACT ME
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azulfria[at]hotmail[dot]com
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Thank you for reading

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-Ice Queen Zero

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