City Patrolman is a light gun game running on UM6578 hardware released by Timetop sometime around the early 2000s for the Timetop TV Game console. The game is notable for being one of the few light gun games for UM6578 or VTxx systems.
Overview[]
The game is a simple on-rails light gun game where you shoot enemies such as gang members in an effort to protect the streets while avoiding their fire and not shooting any hostages. The player can choose one of 6 stages to start on, A bank, the Wild West, A mineshaft, A construction site, a desert, or a training stage. You can select the option to either shoot automatically or manually.
Enemies appear from all over the stage (In a rather choppy fashion) and you have to shoot them before they shoot at you, which takes some of your life away. When you kill them, they let out a yell as their sprite flickers before disappearing. Hostages can also appear, but shooting at them seems to have no consequences. Items can also be picked up for life. You can be shot up to 10 times before you lose one of your 5 lives. When you lose all of you lives, you can continue or get a game over. After you clear a stage, you are sent back to the menu to select another one. The game doesn't seem to have any type of ending at all.
Trivia[]
- The training stage uses a version of the main theme from Thexder.
Screen after beating the training stage
- Bizarrely, if you complete the training stage, a screen directly ripped from Virtua Cop 2 will appear. Featuring both a Player 1 and a Player 2, even though the game is only single player.