Dead Connection (Arcade) Playthrough - Longplay (World Ver.)
2The in-game maneuvers were unusually diverse for a sprite-based shoot 'em up game of the era. When the player moves his character to within arm's length of an enemy, the shoot button triggers a melee attack. The player can also lie prone to evade gunfire, and perform a diving somersault in order to quickly take cover behind tables, plants, pillars, statues, and other fixtures.
Instead of using scrolling each stage takes place against a non-moving but richly detailed backdrop—beginning with the lavish interior of a posh hotel. Most of the environment is destructible and the scenery becomes visibly degraded by bullet holes throughout the prolonged firefights.
The game seems to take specific inspiration from the 1987 mobster film The Untouchables. Two of the main characters bear an unmistakable resemblance to Andy Garcia and Kevin Costner who both starred in that film as George Stone/Giuseppe Petri and Eliot Ness, respectively.
[00:00] - Intro
[01:03] - Stage 1
[02:21] - Stage 2
[04:03] - Stage 3
[06:04] - Stage 4
[08:59] - Stage 5
[10:59] - Stage 6
[13:46] - Stage 7
[16:18] - Stage 8
[21:10] - Ending