Gall Force - Eternal Story

Gall Force - Eternal Story is a video game based on the anime of the same title, developed in 1986 (the same year as when Eternal Story was released) for the Famicom Disk System. This game is the first commercial release by HAL Laboratory, creator of the popular Kirby series. It was also the only game developed around the Gall Force series. It was never released for play outside of Japan.

Gall Force is a group of science fiction anime OAV series by the studio Artmic, with production by Youmex and AIC. The original character designs were by Kenichi Sonoda. In the original story line, an all-out, prehistoric galactic war rages between the all-female Solnoids and the amorphous Paranoids for too long. In the midst of battle, a plan which was secretly hatched by the leaders of both sides comes into fruition, and an unsuspecting crew of seven Solnoid soldiers aboard the Kulanis-class Cruiser named the Star Leaf is caught up in the middle.

The Famicom Disk System game is a top down shooter and follows a different story than that of the OAVs. It features Rabby flying across Terra, and catapulting into six different regions of space in order to rescue each of her crew members one at a time. With each crew member that you rescue, you gain access to a new configuration for your ship.

Controls

 * : Use the direction pad to control the Star Leaf, piloted by Rabby, in eight different directions. You can occupy most of the visible screen, but the screen scrolls automatically.
 * : Press the A button to fire your current weapon.
 * : Press the B button to engage the ship configuration that conforms to the selected crew member at the bottom of the screen. If Rabby is selected, the ship will return to its default state.  If Pony is selected, a solo fighter will be launched at the cost of one fighter stock (noted in the lower right corner of the screen, next to the number of lives remaining.)
 * : Used to start a new game and to pause or unpause the action mid-game.
 * : Press Select to cycle through the available crew members at the bottom of the screen.

Game Progression

 * In Gall Force - Eternal Story, Rabby must pilot the Star Leaf and be catapulted to six different regions of space in order to rescue her crew mates. To do this, she starts by flying over the surface of Terra.  After a while, she will encounter a collection of catapults with a number of dots on them.
 * To be catapulted, all you must do is line your ship up with one of the catapults. At that time, your ship will reconfigure for high speed flight and you will be propelled into space.  The number of dots indicate which crew member will be rescued, along with the relative difficulty of the particular region of space that you will be catapulted to.
 * Initially, only three catapults will be available, but new catapults will be added as you clear earlier ones. You can revisit any region of space as many times as you like, but you will obviously only rescue a crew mate the first time you successfully clear the region.
 * Alternatively, you may skip the catapult section entirely. If you avoid touching every catapult, the Terra stage will continue.  There are three regions on Terra that repeat; a forest region, a water region, and a desert region.
 * Once all six crew mates have been rescued, you must catapult to any region of space for the final confrontation. You will be required to defeat all six previous boss battle cruiser, plus a final seventh cruiser that you have never faced before.  If you defeat this seventh cruiser, you will win the game.