Arcade Archives: Metal Hawk

Metal Hawk is a 1988 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. Assuming control of the titular attack helicopter, the player is tasked with using a machine gun and air-to-surface missiles to destroy enemies and earn a certain number of points before the timer runs out, all while avoiding collision with ether enemy projectiles and obstacles. The Metal Hawk can change its altitude to allow it to either rise higher in the air or lower towards the ground. It runs on the Namco System 2 arcade board. Metal Hawk was one of the first games to be developed under Namco's then-new research and development (R&D) video game division in Japan.