Axelay is an adventure developed by Konami, released 1 September 1992 on Wii U, Wii, Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
What Axelay is
Axelay is an adventure game developed by Konami and released in 1992. It was published by Hyundai. It is available on Wii U, Wii, Super Famicom and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Axelay is a 1992 scrolling shooter developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Set in the fictional solar system Illis where an alien empire known as "Armada of Annihilation" invades its planets including the Earth-like Corliss (Mother), players take control of the titular D117B space fighter craft as a last resort to stop the alien invasion by recovering its lost weaponry. The gameplay mainly consist of both vertical-scrolling and horizontal-scrolling stages in the same vein as Konami's own Life Force, with players choosing three different weapon-types that increase in number as they progress through the game.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Axelay holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1992 averaged 67, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Axelay launched on 1 September 1992, within three weeks of Super Mario Kart and Alone in the Dark. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Kart, Alone in the Dark.
Cheats and codes
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