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Instruction booklet · November 1992

Firepower 2000

Shooter1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

Choose between a Helicopter Gunship or an Armoured Jeep and prepare to enter enemy territory as part of the elite assault team of SPECIAL WEAPONS INTERDICTION VEHICLES. Battle against enemy 'copters, thanks, hovercraft, snowmobiles, mechanised flying fish, giant weapons installations andmuch more in this vertically scrolling shot 'em up.

Specifications

Released: November 1992
Developer: Sales Curve Interactive
Publisher: Sunsoft
Players: 1
Genre: Shooter
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Series: SWIV
Themes: Action · Science fiction
View: Bird view / Isometric

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

GameRankings: 82.40%
Wizard: B

BE KIND, REWINDNovember 1992

#1 song

End of the RoadBoyz II Men #1 album

The ChaseGarth Brooks Admit one · #1 movie

Passenger 57$10,513,925 weekend

Vol. 2 · No. 64Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of November 6, 1992

Nov. 3

The rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine releases their self-titled debut album.

💵 A Super NES was $199.99 at launch · about $473 today

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