Thunder Cross

**Thunder Cross**
Developer:	Konami
Publisher:	Konami
Director:	K. Hiro
Music:	Junichiro Kaneda ; Seiichi Fukami
Program:	Kalcium Wada ; Utamaro
Art:	M. Moriyama ; M. Sunachan
Release date:	Arcade: 1988 ; PS2: February 8, 2007 ; PS4: June 8, 2017 ; Switch: February 11, 2021
Previous game:	A-Jax
Next game:	Gradius II

Thunder Cross (JP: "サンダークロス") is a horizontal scrolling shoot em' up developed and published by Konami in the year 1988. It is the only horizontal Konami shooter to recieve a sequel outside of Gradius and its spin-offs.

The game has been ported through the Oretachi Gēsen Zoku series on PlayStation 2 and the Arcade Archives port on PlayStation 4 / Nintendo Switch.

Gameplay Overview

Controls

Thunder Cross is a 2 button game with 7 stages. Finishing every stage will start the 2nd loop.

A button: Fires the player's main weapon.
B button: Adjusts the gap between the player's options/Fires the super-weapon.

Items

Enemies drop power containers that cycle between each upgrade. Weapons have 3 levels of power; Super-weapons have limited ammunition and function separately from the main weapon.

	Speed Up Increases the player's speed. Can be equipped up to 5 times.
	Vulcan Standard shot. Has high firing rate, but low power.
	Boomerang Bullets that bounce off of surfaces. Deals the most amount of damage.
	Tail Laser Secondary shot. Has great coverage and high damage.
	Option Small drone that mimics the player's main weapon. Can be equipped up to 4 times.
	Laser Fires wide, long-distance beams.
	Flame Fires short-ranged flamethrowers.
	Napalm Fires area-of-effect bullets that explode on impact.
	Question Mark Score item worth 5k, appears when a super-weapon is equipped.
	1-Up Appears based on the amount of time without using an equipped super-weapon.