Thunder Cross - Revision history

Frostyryker at 17:43, 28 April 2024

2024-04-28T17:43:44Z

JSAV2006STG(ABC): /* Trivia */

2024-03-21T06:18:13Z

Trivia

ADR at 03:08, 21 March 2024

2024-03-21T03:08:57Z

Trap15: Remove link to non-existing video index

2023-11-21T09:43:22Z

Remove link to non-existing video index

Frostyryker: Initial page

2023-07-25T18:52:21Z

Initial page

New page

[[File: Thunder_Cross_logo.png|center|550px]]
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{{GameInfobox
|title = Thunder Cross
|background = #EFCEA5
|bordercolor = #AD0800
|innerbordercolor = #F78408
|image = Thunder_Cross_title_screen.png
|width = 324px;
|imagecaption = Title screen
|imagescalepx = 300px
|director = K. Hiro
|developer = [[Konami]]
|publisher = [[Konami]]
|music = Junichiro Kaneda Seiichi Fukami
|program = Kalcium Wada Utamaro
|art = M. Moriyama M. Sunachan
|releasedate = '''Arcade:''' 1988 '''PS2:''' February 8, 2007 '''PS4:''' June 8, 2017 '''Switch:''' February 11, 2021
|previousgame = [[A-Jax]]
|nextgame = [[Gradius II]]
}}
'''Thunder Cross''' (JP: "サンダークロス") is a horizontal scrolling shoot em' up developed and published by Konami in the year 1988. It is the only horizontal Konami shooter to recieve a sequel outside of Gradius and its spin-offs.

The game has been ported through the ''Oretachi Gēsen Zoku'' series on PlayStation 2 and the Arcade Archives port on PlayStation 4 / Nintendo Switch.

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== Gameplay Overview ==
=== Controls ===
''Thunder Cross'' is a 2 button game with 7 stages. Finishing every stage will start the 2nd loop.
*'''A button:''' Fires the player's main weapon.
*'''B button:''' Adjusts the gap between the player's options/Fires the super-weapon.

=== Items ===
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Enemies drop power containers that cycle between each upgrade. Weapons have 3 levels of power; Super-weapons have limited ammunition and function separately from the main weapon.

{| class="wikitable"
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| [[File:Thunder Cross speedup.png|50px]] || '''Speed Up''' Increases the player's speed. Can be equipped up to 5 times.
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| [[File:Thunder Cross vulcan.png|50px]] || '''Vulcan''' Standard shot. Has high firing rate, but low power.
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| [[File:Thunder Cross boomerang.png|50px]] || '''Boomerang''' Bullets that bounce off of surfaces. Deals the most amount of damage.
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| [[File:Thunder Cross tail laser.png|50px]] || '''Tail Laser''' Secondary shot. Has great coverage and high damage.
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| [[File:Thunder Cross option.png|50px]] || '''Option''' Small drone that mimics the player's main weapon. Can be equipped up to 4 times.
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| [[File:Thunder Cross laser.png|50px]] || '''Laser''' Fires wide, long-distance beams.
|-
| [[File:Thunder Cross flame.png|50px]] || '''Flame''' Fires short-ranged flamethrowers.
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| [[File:Thunder Cross napalm.png|50px]] || '''Napalm''' Fires area-of-effect bullets that explode on impact.
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| [[File:Thunder Cross question mark.png|50px]] || '''Question Mark''' Score item worth 5k, appears when a super-weapon is equipped.
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| [[File:Thunder Cross 1up.png|50px]] || '''1-Up''' Appears based on the amount of time without using an equipped super-weapon.
|}

=== Extra Lives ===
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On default settings, extra lives are obtained every 200,000 points (first extra live is at 30,000).

=== Loops ===
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''Thunder Cross'' loops infinitely. Upon a completion of a loop, the player is stripped of all their power-ups.

== Strategy ==
WIP

== Version Differences ==

== Video References ==

[[Thunder Cross/Video Index|Video index for Thunder Cross]]

== Trivia ==

[[Category:Horizontal orientation]]

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 |releasedate = '''Arcade:''' 1988 </br> '''PS2:''' February 8, 2007 </br> '''PS4:''' June 8, 2017 </br> '''Switch:''' February 11, 2021
 |previousgame = [[A-Jax]]
-|nextgame = [[Gradius II]]
+|nextgame = [[Gradius_II:_Gofer_no_Yabou|Gradius II]]
 }}
 '''Thunder Cross''' (JP: "サンダークロス") is a horizontal scrolling shoot em' up developed and published by Konami in the year 1988. It is the only horizontal Konami shooter to recieve a sequel outside of Gradius and its spin-offs.

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 == Version Differences ==
 == Trivia ==
 [[Category:Horizontal orientation]]