Battle Squadron is a classic arcade style shooter for 1 or 2 players, and a spiritual successor to Hybris. You take a space ship and fly it over a high tech hostile surface, and then into an organic setting. .

You can control the number of 'credits' you have from 1 to 3. You choose how many lives you get. You also get to choose the max number of enemy bullets and their speed.

You get powerups along the way that modify your weapons, and also the "Nova Smart Bomb".

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Alternate Titles

"Battle Squadron ONE" -- Smartphone title

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Part of the Following Group

Genre: Scrolling shoot 'em up

Merchant	Title	Platform
	Batman: Revenge of the Joker	Genesis
	Battle Squadron - AMIGA	Amiga
	Battle Squadron
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User Reviews

One of the hardest vertical scrolling shooters ever made.

Genesis

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The Press Says

Amiga Joker	Amiga	Oct, 1989	89 out of 100	89
Mean Machines	Genesis	Jan, 1991	85 out of 100	85
Power Play	Amiga	Feb, 1990	82 out of 100	82
Power Play	Genesis	Apr, 1991	74 out of 100	74
Retrogaming History	Genesis	Jun 09, 2009	7 out of 10	70
Sega-16.com	Genesis	Oct 30, 2008	6 out of 10	60
All Game Guide	Genesis	1999		50

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Trivia

Amiga Computing review

Amiga Computing gave Battle Squadron a whopping 109% (!) in their review, with both the graphics and gameplay scores going off the scale.

Intro

The non-playable demo of the Amiga version contains an intro sequence that is animated and colorful when compared to the same but non-animated and black and white intro sequence in the game. Apparently there wasn't enough disk space for a full quality intro so they cut it down. The same cut-down intro is used in the Genesis version too.

Information also contributed by B.L. Stryker.

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This entry was contributed by Roland Kippenhan (178), ronaldvd (35) and Kabushi (104356)