Game:

Dead Connection (1992)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 25:56

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Dead Connection was produced by Taito in 1992. A 1920's gangster shoot-em-up. Eliminate a certain number of baddies in order to advance to another location. Eventually, you will meet the big boss and kill him too.

The game has four selectable player characters: Philip, James, Eddie and Gary. FBI agents decide to take it upon themselves to clean up a city that is riddled with no-good gangsters. After having suffered personal loss at the hands of the hoods, the four agents decide to find the big boss and eliminate him. This involves finding his various henchmen and 'interrogating' them. Once you have got the information you need, you advance to another location finding another sub-boss, all the while getting closer to the big man himself.

At each location the screen is fixed. You run around on the screen and various baddies will show up, either jumping out of hedges or usually appearing from doors or the sides of the screen. It looks and plays a bit like Syndicate except the angle of view is higher, the scenery is fixed, and the civilians are safe from your gunfire, but the scenery is not. In order to gain extra weapons and/or health bonuses, you can destroy various bits of scenery to reveal them. When the gangsters have been killed, some of them leave behind their wallets and briefcases, giving you major point bonuses.