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Double Action Blaster Guys
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About the game
Double Action Blaster Guys is an arcade platformer in the single-screen style: each level fits on one screen, full of platforms, hazards and enemies that walk, hop, fly, drop bombs or shoot back. You run, jump and fire until the level's goal is met, and then it is on to the next one.
The goal changes from level to level. Sometimes you have to defeat a number of enemies, sometimes collect a certain amount of money, sometimes just stay alive for a set time, and some levels ask you to turn green blocks red. With 52 levels, power-ups and more than twenty kinds of enemy, there is plenty to get through, and a second player can drop in at any time.
The menu also has a level editor, so you can build your own rooms and play them right away.
Playing it here
This is a homebrew game made for the NES: a new game by an independent developer, not a commercial release. It runs here in jsnes, an NES emulator written in JavaScript. Click Play now, choose Play Game in the menu and pick who is playing, the mode and where to start.
F2 saves the current state of the game in this browser and F4 brings it back. A gamepad also works. For two players, the second player can use the numeric keypad or a second gamepad, and joins in by pressing A and B together.
Controls
| Key | NES button | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Arrow keys | Control Pad | move, choose in menus |
| X | A | jump |
| Z | B | shoot (hold to run faster) |
| Down + X | Down + A | drop through a platform |
| X + Z | A + B | join the game |
| Enter | Start | pause and resume |
| Shift or Ctrl | Select | skip the level |
| F2 / F4 | — | save / load the state |
While paused, Start and Select together go back to the main menu. Player 2 uses the numeric keypad: 8, 2, 4 and 6 to move, 7 for A, 9 for B, 1 for Start and 3 for Select.
A few things worth knowing
Read the goal. The screen before each level says what it takes to finish it: defeat enemies, collect money, survive, or turn the green blocks red.
Three ways to play with a friend. With two players you can work together, compete for points or fight each other.
Start further in. The level menu lets you begin at later levels or go straight to the bonus levels, and you can turn power-ups off for a harder run.
Make your own. Level Edit in the main menu opens the editor; when you test a level, Select takes you back to editing.
Credits and licence
Double Action Blaster Guys is by NovaSquirrel, with sound and trigonometry code and some sounds and sprites by Damian Yerrick. The music is a heavily edited version of Edvard Grieg's Morning Mood. This release was published under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and its complete source code is linked from this page; in 2021 the author relicensed the project under the zlib licence. Both licence texts are in the licence file.