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Gondomania, also known as Makyou Senshi, is a scrolling shooter arcade video game initially released in Japan in 1987. It was developed and published by Data East.

The Gondos, a race of alien beings, steals your significant other and takes them to the planet of thorns. The premise of game is to take down the Gondos though various levels and boss fights. It takes place in a futuristic medieval world and includes dragons and soldiers.

The game was designed for play on a classic arcade console. The two buttons activate the guns and throw a type of sub-weapon and the joystick allows you to move left, right, up, or down. A rotary joystick allows you to aim and fire sub-weapons in eight different directions. Similar to other scrolling shooters, Gondomania allows you to progress across the 10 levels. Enemies in Gondomania drop coins when they are defeated, which allows a player to purchase power-ups. This differs from typical scrolling shooters because it requires an additional layer of strategy to decide what to purchase and when, as opposed to the typical scrolling shooter where you receive pre-programmed power-ups.