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Gyrodine
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Gyrodine is a top-down vertical helicopter scrolling shooter for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Family Computer, MSX and arcade developed by Crux and published by Taito in 1984.
- Released
- 1986
- Genres
- Shooter
- Platforms
- Family Computer
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Crux
- Publisher
- Taito
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Genre
- shoot 'em up
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Publisher
- Taito
- Platform
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Distribution format
- ROM cartridge
- Image
- Gyrodine update.jpg
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- publication date
- 1984-07-00
- superfamicom.org URL
- superfamicom.org/famicom/info/gyrodine
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is a top-down, vertically scrolling shooter developed by Crux and released in arcades by Taito in 1984. Ports to the Famicom and MSX followed. The player flies a helicopter that can shoot air and ground targets.
== Reception == In Japan, Game Machine listed Gyrodine as the ninth most successful table arcade unit of July 1984.
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