Empire City: 1931

aka: Arcade Archives: Empire City - 1931, Magnum Kiki Ippatsu 1931

Moby ID: 20374

Released

December 1986 on Arcade

Credits

12 people

Releases by Date (by platform)

Publishers

Developers

Seibu Kaihatsu Inc.

Moby Score: n/a
Critics: 50% (1)
Players: (6)
Collected By: 7 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: 1st-person
Side view
Gameplay: Arcade
Shooter
Setting: Interwar
Misc: Licensed

Arcade Specs

Input Devices Supported/Optional: 2 buttons
Multiplayer Options: Hot Seat
Number of Offline Players: 1-2 Players

Description official descriptions

In Empire City: 1931 which is set in 1931 you are a federal agent that has to eliminate all criminal activities in New York City. You must hunt the criminals down and shoot them one by one. To locate a criminal you just have to follow the arrow on the left or right of the screen. Killing criminals is done by moving the cross hair over them. A countdown timer will start counting down if a criminal starts shooting at you. You must kill the criminal before the timer reaches zero or you'll loose a life. New bullets can be collected by shooting at the bullet boxes that regularly appear in the game as other useful objects. The criminals sometimes take hostages for protection. Rescue these hostages for additional points.

Firing your gun is done with fire button 1 and deflecting bullets by pressing the fire button 2.

Spellings

アーケードアーカイブスエンパイアシティ:1931 - Japanese PS4 / Switch spelling
マグナム危機一髪エンパイアシティ1931 - Japanese spelling

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Credits (NES version)

12 People (11 developers, 1 thanks)

Produced by	Hitoshi Hamada (H. Hamada) M. Koyama S. Mukaimura
Directed by	Toshihiko Deguchi (T. Deguchi) Y. Nakanishi Y. Kano
Programmed by	Takumi Takano (as T. Takano) M. Sekine Y. Kimura
Music by	Daisuke Asakura (D. Asakura)
Special thanks	D A C
Presented by	Toshiba EMI

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Critics

Average score: 50% (based on 1 ratings)

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Average score: 3.2 out of 5 (based on 6 ratings with 0 reviews)

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MobyGames ID: 20374

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Game added by koffiepad.

Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 added by Rik Hideto. Arcade added by Alaka.

Additional contributors: Rik Hideto, robMSX.

Game added December 10, 2005. Last modified October 4, 2023.