Dead Connection (Arcade) - Playthrough
4In this video, I'm doing a playthrough of a game that I never heard before, but it looks interesting to try out. That game is: Dead Connection for the Arcade. This game was developed and published by Taito, it was only released in the arcade in 1992. Dead Connection is an action top-down shoot 'em up game. The game takes place on September 5, 1953 "in a big city somewhere". It features a group of detectives who set out to fight a crime family. The game has a strong Film noir vibe, shown through the appearance of the detectives and the featuring of a female protagonist. Each stage is preceded by a short cinematic interlude that explains the transition between the game's different locales. The game has eight stages and four playable 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. Overall, Dead Connection is a pretty fun game that seems to take specific inspiration from the 1987 mobster film The Untouchables, which I haven't seen this movie yet. But I really enjoyed playing Dead Connection and I highly recommend to give this a try. At a later time, I'll be doing a 1 Credit Challenge of this game in the future. I hope you enjoy this playthrough of Dead Connection for the Arcade and thanks for watching!
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