Rolling Thunder/Stage 8

The first half of this stage is similar to the third one, except it has more enemies. Once Albatross has reappeared, start walking to the right and shoot the two Blogas jumping around. An Orange Type 1 Masker will come out of the metal door on the left after you have killed them, and the one in the middle is a pistol ammunition room. Once you have obtained the extra ammunition, a Brown Type 2 Masker will come out of the door on the right, and you will now have four more Pink Type 1 Maskers to contend with. Jump over the tree trunk once you have disposed of them, and shoot the Orange Type 1 Masker that has emerged from the metal door. At least eight more of various varieties and three Blogas are present on the platform overhead, and you will once again have to jump up there in order to get past the two oil drums stacked on top of each other. A Blue Type 2 Masker will emerge from the door on the platform once you have done so, and there is a Machine-Gun Bullets room on the other side of the oil drums. Once you have jumped down, obtained the extra ammunition and jumped back up again, there are four more Pink Type 1 Maskers and two more Blogas just before the edge of the overhead platform. After you have walked off the edge and dropped down to the ground, continue to the right until you see two Green Type 2 Maskers and yet another Bloga just before two more oil drums stacked on top of each other. A Gelzo will come flying at you once you have made it to the other side of the oil drums; try to kill it before it manages to reach you. Two Pink Type 1 Maskers, along with an Orange one, will emerge from the metal doors shortly after the last tree stump, and four Yellow Type 2 ones are present on the platform overhead. Another Bloga will also be jumping around on a platform made up of oil drums stacked on top of each other. Once you have made it to the other side of this platform, another Pink Type 1 Masker will emerge from the metal door - two Orange ones and two Brown Type 2 ones are also present on the platform overhead. You will now have to shoot two more Blogas jumping around just before the first platform made up of gray tree trunks. Once you have made it to the other side of the platform, two Panthers will try to leap on you. Once you have killed them, you will once again have to deal with several more as you continue to the right. Just after the next gray tree trunk, an Orange Type 1 Masker will emerge from a metal door, and two more Panthers will be present on the platform overhead. The door on this platform is a pistol ammunition room - but as with the third stage, you cannot make a short jump to the next overhead platform once you have obtained the extra ammunition as another gray tree trunk is standing in your way on the ceiling. So once again, you will have to walk off the edge and continue to the right until you see that there are now four more Panthers pacing around in the cage; they still can't kill you, but you still can't kill them either. There is also another gray tree trunk with four Orange Type 1 Maskers behind it, along with two Green Type 2 ones and a Brown one. Once you have killed them all, jump up the staircase made up of concrete blocks and drop off the edge once you have reached the top. A Brown Type 2 Masker will emerge from the metal door on the ledge you have landed on once you have done so, and a Blue Type 2 one will emerge from the one on the ledge below. Once you have disposed of them, make a long jump to the right in order to land on a partial viaduct over a pit of lava and kill the Orange Type 1 Masker who has emerged from the metal door on it. Jump over the oil drum in your path and watch out for the Fire Man coming down on you from above. Once you have jumped off the partial viaduct onto a narrow concrete platform, a Gelzo will be flying around in your path; pick it off carefully and make a short jump to the right in order to land on another narrow concrete platform. After this, make a longer jump to the right in order to land on another platform made up of concrete blocks where another Gelzo will be flying around in your path. Once you have killed it, a Brown Type 2 Masker will emerge from the metal door on the left, and an Orange Type 1 one will emerge from the one on the right. You will now have to jump onto three more concrete platforms in turn, disposing of the Yellow Type 2 Maskers that will emerge from the metal doors on each one. Soon after, you will have to make a short jump to the right in order to land on another partial viaduct with four metal doors positioned right next to each other. The one on the far left is a Machine-Gun bullets room, so once you have obtained the extra ammunition, a Brown Type 2 Masker will emerge from the one next to it, a Blue Type 2 Masker will emerge from the third one along, and an Orange Type 1 Masker will emerge from the one on the far right. A Bloga will also be jumping around just before two more metal doors positioned right next to each other at the end of the viaduct - an Orange Type 1 Masker will emerge from the door on the left, and a Yellow Type 2 one will emerge from the one on the right. You will now have to make a short jump to the right in order to land on yet another partial viaduct, watching out for the Fire Men coming down on you from above. A Brown Type 2 Masker will also emerge from the metal door on the concrete platform below. Towards the end of the stage, you will have to jump onto several narrow concrete platforms in turn, watching out for Fire Men along the way. Once Albatross has made it to the other side of the lava pit (marked by another concrete platform) and entered the doorway on the right side of the screen, he will proceed to the ninth stage.