Mastery #18: Final Combat (Watara Supervision)

    

         The Watara Supervision a game system I had no idea even existed until Retroachievements. To be honest I'm not even really sure what the story of the Supervision is besides it was a handheld system. I know a simple search into wikipedia I could get information on it but that's not the point of me writing this. My main focus on this is mostly my journey through this game. 

    I love the title to this game. 'Final Combat' it's so dramatic for something as simple as handheld game. The game right at the start reminded me of any other arcade tank type game. Mainly thinking of the Atari 2600 Combat, you take control of a tank and shoot other tanks that appear at the top of the screen. All while a big gun fires at you from a fixed location, and a spiral pool covered by blocks. The premise of the game from what I gathered was you have to destroy a X amount of tanks, then at the bottom of the screen it will tell you to 'Go'. Not entirely sure where that is to 'go', after some trial and error I realized you have to destroy enough blocks around the spiral pool. But also shoot the spiral pool? I'm still not even exactly sure what the real trigger is for it. Some levels I beat it via destroying the blocks. Other levels I defeated it by shooting the spiral pool (granted it's possible the explosion from the bullet could have hit one of the blocks) the game only has a total of 8 levels so there isn't that much time to really figure it out.

The ending screen. No idea what Next Sector is lol.

    It also took me awhile to realize that you can destroy the stationary guns. The sound effect it gave when your bullets hit the stationary guns it sounded like it didn't do any damage. Similar to the sound when you hear your bullets ricochet off of enemies in Mega Man. But nope, in this game you just have to shoot them enough before they destroy. Most of this game is just finding the sweet spot to shoot everything. Since the stationary guns always follow you, there is usually a spot where the bullets won't hit you. Then you can fire at your leisure to destroy the stationary gun.

        This may seem like a short post but truthfully this game only took me 30 minutes to master. The set for it was perfect. But not to round back about the Watara Supervision itself but this is one of the reasons why I love Retro Achievements so much. I would have never of known about this system, let alone the games on it. Not like any of these games are triple A titles but it's really nice cool to see & play things you never even knew existed. This along with many other reasons is why I play & earn Retroachievements. I don't care to be number 1. Just to experience & play games in a different light.