Arcade Archives MOON CRESTA

Release Date

31st Jan 2019

No. of Players

Genre

Arcade, Shooter

Publisher

HAMSTER

Content Rating

ESRB/Everyone, PEGI/3

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"MOON CRESTA" is a shooting game produced and released by Nichibutsu in 1980.

Players control Unit1 and Unit 2 and Unit3 of the airplane, and coalescing these airplanes, will defeat the enemies.

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.

Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.

Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

Thu 20th Mar 2025

JJtheTexan said:

Moon Cresta comes from a weird time in gaming. Arcades were entering a Golden Age, as Space Invaders continued to dominate and Pac-Man fever was sweeping the world. The former title inspired far, far more imitators, each of which sought to create a slightly new twist on what was becoming gaming's biggest genre: the vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-up.
In Moon Cresta's case, the gimmick is that your space fighter can be expanded and strengthened by adding sections, arranged sort of like a pine tree shape (think the stages of the rockets that took NASA's Apollo missions to the moon). Adding the sections makes your fighter more powerful, but you'll need to successfully dock with each one first (which can be challenging). As you progress through the game, you'll use each of the three sections for various firepower effects.
Otherwise, the gameplay is very similar to Galaxian.
It's fine. The sequel, Terra Cresta, is much better.

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