Rescue Raider/Walkthrough

The island on which Bally Midway's 1987 multiple-screen shooter arcade game, Rescue Raider takes place is divided into four "zones", each one comprised of a number of screens; whenever the Rescue Raider drives off any of the current screen's four sides, the screen will change and it will drive back onto the opposite side of the new one and it shall come to one or more static enemies that are firing shots at it from their preset positions, as one or more mobile enemies drive towards it from one or more of the new screen's four sides while firing more shots at it (and, if there is water on it, a Boat emerges from it to fire even more shots at it). If there's a secret document on it you can drive the Rescue Raider towards it - and once it has collected it, you will receive 1000 points as the text "SECRET DOCUMENT #XX" (XX being the document's number) appears upon the screen, with the three texts of "REVEALS:", something such as "HOSTAGE PRISON", "FUEL DUMP", "WEAPONS CACHE", or "SPECIAL WEAPON" and "LOCATION:" and an arrow pointing to the right below it as a yellow square flashes up over the appropriate area of the radar map on the screen's right side but if you have already picked it up, the text of "(BUT YOU ALREADY PICKED IT UP)" will appear below it instead. If there is a hostage of either colour, fuel dump, weapon or special weapon on the current screen, you may again drive the Rescue Raider towards them; once it has collected them, you shall receive 5000 points and an extra life, 2500 points and a full refueling, 2000 points and more firepower, or 2500 points and (the appropriate) special weapon as the text "(SPECIAL WEAPON NAME) ARMED AND READY" appears on the screen. At the end of each zone, the screen shall display a summary of how many hostages you had rescued, how many documents you had retrieved and how many enemies you had destroyed in the current zone - and after you've made it to the escape ship at the end of the fourth zone, the text "YOU MADE IT! CONGRATULATIONS!" will appear on the screen. You'll then receive a 50000-point bonus for reaching safety, 10000 points for every hostage you'd rescued (the maximum is 80000), 5000 for every secret document retrieved (the maximum is 100000), 5000 points for every life you have remaining (your maximum is 65000) and 250 points for every unit of fuel you have remaining (the maximum is 31750); the maximum bonus you can receive at the end is 330250 points which is more than some people score in the game proper.