Battle Storm (Famicom)
Guide by E. Phelps, ver. 1.0
(aka LastBossKiller)
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Battle Storm is an NES/Famicom game developed by Bullet Proof Software
and published by Yonezawa PR21 in 1991. It's a strategy game that takes place
in real time, sort of like Command & Conquer, where you tell your units who
to attack, and then they go fight the battle while you give other units
commands. It's pretty horrible though, but it will be easy to beat and knock
off your list.
A really strange aspect of this game is the character select screen. You
can choose to be Sylvester Stallone, Chuck Norris, Eddie Murphy, Bruce Lee,
or Arnold Schwarzenegger. Weird.
Although the game is only in Japanese, it doesn't have much text, so you
should be able to play it just fine even if you don't speak Japanese.
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When the game starts up, you will have four menu options:
1 プレイヤー - "1 Player"
2 プレイヤー - "2 Player"
デモ - "Demo". Watch the computer play against itself.
ゲームのつづき - "Continue game". Use a password to continue a previous game.
Whether you choose a one or two player game, the following game setup options
will be the same. First, one player chooses the character he/she would like
to use. The options are:
らんぼ - "Rambo" (Sylvester Stallone)
ちゃあく - "Chuck" (Chuck Norris)
えでい - "Eddie" (Eddie Murphy)
あちゃー - "Archer" (Bruce Lee. Anyone know why he's called Archer here?)
あーのろ - "Arnold" (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
After choosing a character, the second player (or the computer) will choose a
character. Next, each player needs to decide how much money they will be able
to spend during the battle. Money is used to generate units, so the more
money you have, the more tanks and stuff you'll be able to create. More money
also means the game will take longer. The computer can have a minimum of $100
(this is actually $100,000,000 as signified by the symbols 百万).
After both players have settled on a dollar amount, each player will then
have to decide on their skill level. The options are:
ビギナー - "Beginner"
ノービス - "Novice"
アドバンス - "Advanced"
エキスペリエンス - "Experienced"
ベデラン - "Veteran"
The difference in skill level only affects which units you will be allowed to
use. So if you are a beginner, you can only use two kinds of tanks. If you
are a veteran, you can use all of the different types of units.
Next, you will choose one of nine possible battlefields. You will eventually
have to battle in each location, and the winner will be the player who won
the most out of the nine battles. After choosing a battlefield, choose which
side of the map player one will play on (left or right).
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Press "Left" and "Right" to move the arrow around at the bottom of the screen
(on your side of the screen) to select one of your units. At the same time, a
blue box will highlight that unit on the battlefield. To change this unit's
behavior, press "A" to select the unit. You will then freely control the blue
box on the map. Move the box to a place that you want the unit to move toward
and press "A". Next, the blue box will highlight an enemy unit. Press "Left"
and "Right" to change which enemy unit the box is highlighting (you can also
watch the arrow at the bottom of the enemy's screen to see who you are
targetting). Press "A" and your unit will then start attacking that enemy. In
this way, you will tell a unit where to move and who to attack.
If you have a blank space on your side of the bottom window, then you can
generate a new unit. To do so, place the arrow over the blank space and press
"A". Then push "Up" and "Down" to cycle through the possible units that you
can generate. Below the unit will be shown the dollar amount that you have to
spend to create the unit. If a unit is blocking the part of your base that
new units exit from (because you just generated a new one that's still in the
way, for example), then you won't be able to generate a new unit until the
exit is unblocked. Helicopters and jets are generated from a different part
of the base, so you can generate an air unit and a ground unit at the same
time. The amount of money you have left to spend is shown at the center of
the bottom window. If you are on the left side of the screen, an "L" will be
next to your money, and an "R" will be shown for the person on the right
side.
To win a battle, you must destroy the enemy base. The health of each base is
shown as the grey and white bars at the center of the bottom window. These
are depleted as the bases are damaged, and when they reach zero, the base
explodes and the battle ends. You can also self-destruct your base, in which
case the enemy will instantly win. If you are playing against the computer
and the computer runs out of money and units, it will self-destruct its base.
To self-destruct your base, press "A" over a blank unit space as if you were
about to generate a new unit. But choose the skull and crossbones symbol
instead. Press "A" to select it. You will see the words "OFF" above the
skull. Press "Up" to change this to "ON", then press "A" and your base will
self-destruct. You lose! Why did you do that?!
You gain more money during the battle by destroying enemy units.
Different units have different abilities. Below, I list information about the
units:
UNIT COST SKILL LEVEL ABILITIES
Small Tank 3 Beginner Weak armor and long distance attack.
Medium Tank 5 Beginner Medium armor and short distance attack.
Anti-Air Missile 6 Novice Can only damage helicopters and jets.
Heavy Tank 8 Novice Heavy armor tank with short range
attack.
Ground Missile Tank 6 Advanced Medium armor and long distance attack.
Long-Range Tank 12 Advanced Heavy armor and long range attack.
Helicopter 10 Experienced Can only attack ground units. Cannot be
damaged by ground units. Cannot attack
the enemy base.
Jet 40 Experienced Can only attack air units. Cannot
attack the enemy base.
Missile 22 Veteran A single attack that has a large blast
radius.
Barrier 30 Veteran A shield envelopes your base for 30
seconds.
Every time you win a battle against your opponent, you will gain a promotion
and a medal. Here are the ranks you can achieve:
VICTORIES RANK
1 しょうい (Second Lieutenant)
2 ちゅうい (First Lieutenant)
3 たいい (Captain)
4 しょうさ (Major)
5 ちゅうさ (Lieutenant Colonel)
6 たいさ (Colonel)
7 しょうしょう (Major General)
8 ちゅうしょう (Lieutenant General)
9 たいしょう (General)
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First of all, you can make this game super easy by giving yourself a lot more
money than the computer or by setting the computer's skill to "Beginner" and
setting yours to "Veteran". But let's say you don't want to win cheaply.
Also, let's assume you are using "Veteran" skill for both players so all
units are possible to play.
You will find the helicopter to be devastating to the enemy. The helicopter
cannot be damaged by most ground units. Only the anti-air tank and the jet
can damage the helicopter. So, as long as neither of these units are on the
map, your helicopters can lay waste to everything. I use three or four
helicopters as soon as I can generate them. But before long, the computer
will generate some anti-air tanks to counter your helicopters. At that point,
have most or all of your helicopters focus their attacks on the anti-air
tank(s). Usually, your helicopters will destroy the anti-air tanks before
they can destroy any of your helicopters. When the coast is clear of anti-air
tanks, resume your helicopter's devastation of the enemy units.
Do you best to destroy any ground units that are approaching your base. Your
base can take a lot of hits, so it's not an emergency to have a few enemies
approach your base, but keep an eye on your base's damage.
At times, the enemy will generate a jet that will wipe out your helicopters
pretty easily. This is unfortunate for our helicopter-heavy strategy. At that
time, stop generating helicopters. Keep using your helicopters for attacking
ground units while you can, but when they're destroyed, start creating more
normal tanks (whatever kind you want). The jet can't attack your ground
units, so the computer has now wasted $40 on creating a jet that doesn't have
much use anymore. Also, create some anti-air tanks (maybe two) and hope that
they destroy the jet. It's rare that they actually destroy the jet, but if
they do, it's game on! Recreate your helicopter assault squad and the victory
is practically yours at this point. If your anti-air tanks never destroy the
jet, your chances of winning the battle are pretty weak since it's difficult
to defeat the computer on a tank on tank battle, but that's what you'll have
to hope for.
I found that it's usually easiest to win by using the above techniques and
waiting for the enemy's money to drain to zero. At that point, the enemy will
self-destruct its base and you win. The alternative is to attack the enemy's
base and destroy it earlier. I found this tactic to be very difficult, so I
never focused on attacking the enemy base.
For the record, I never found the missile, barrier, or jet useful. They are
too expensive. Maybe the jet would be good if the computer uses helicopters a
lot, but I only saw the computer generate one helicopter during my entire
playthrough.
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This password will start you in the final battle as Chuck Norris versus
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Both teams are set to have $100 and have a skill of
"Veteran":
5541913550C040
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I hope you found this guide useful. If you have information that you'd
like to contribute or other suggestions for how the guide can be made better
or if you find any mistakes, please send it to
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will give you the proper credit for your help.
Thanks to the NES FAQ Completion Project regulars for providing a fun
environment for exploring old, obscure games!
