Step 1[edit]
As mentioned on the previous page, four gift-wrapped boxes with the numbers 1 to 4 on them will get displayed on the screen at the start of this step, as the three-script text of Anata no unmei wo hiraku watashi no purezento. Sukinamono wo dōzo (あなたの運命を開く私のプレゼント。好きな物をどうぞ) gets displayed upon the Taito Monitoring System above them (Nancy shall also speak it from the Yamaha YM-2610 below them); once you've pushed one of the Answer Buttons to choose a box, it shall become a silhouette as one of four Katakana, Kanji or English texts appears upon it: Hazure (ハズレ, which means that this step's questions shall have four possible answers), 3-taku (3択, meaning the questions shall have three possible answers), 2-taku (2択, meaning the questions shall have two possible answers), and JUMP (which means the step will get skipped). If you hesitate too long, the fourth box will get chosen automatically, but if the English text JUMP appears on it when it becomes a silhouette, it will be to your benefit, as you are skipped over this step to the gas station - however, if it doesn't, you will have to play this step and answer three questions correctly between you in order to proceed to it.
The amount of time you shall have to answer a question depends on what the arcade operator has set the "Time" dip switch setting to: "5 seconds", "10 seconds", "15 seconds" or "20 seconds"; if you don't answer a question in the allotted time, Doug Mustard will throw a Molotov cocktail at both Gibson's and Broady's cars from his own, costing them a life-wrench. However, if you answer one correctly, a red "O" shall appear on its number as Gibson's (or Broady's) car gets closer to Mustard's - but if you answer one incorrectly, a blue "X" shall appear on its number as Mustard throws a Molotov cocktail at the incorrectly-answering cop's from his own (again costing him a life-wrench). Once you've answered three questions correctly between you, Gibson's (or Broady's) car will catch up on Mustard's - however, a picture of Mustard and the Katakana/Hiragana text Ha, ha, ototoikiya gare (ハ、ハ、おとといきやがれ) shall appear on the Taito Monitoring System above them, as his car speeds off the right side of the screen and the cops come to a gas station.
Four petrol pumps will then appear on the screen, as the Kanji/Hiragana text Sukina bangō no hokyū wo ukete. (好きな番号の補給を受けて。) appears above them; once you have pressed one of the Answer Buttons to choose a pump, it shall become a silhouette as either the Katakana text Suka (スカ, which means you won't receive anything), or Supanā + X (スパナー+X, with X ranging from 1 to 3, which means that you will receive between one and three additional life-wrenches) appears on it. The screen shall then return to the round's overworld map as Gibson (and Broady in a two-player game) pursue Mustard to Step 2 - and two rectangles containing the text "ROUND 1" and "STEP 2 NORMA 8" will now come up into view from the bottom of the screen which means you will have to answer eight questions correctly between you (this one's questions also always have two possible answers).
Step 2[edit]
Once you have answered eight questions correctly between you, Gibson's (or Broady's) car will catch up on Mustard's, for a second time; however, the picture of Mustard and the three-script text of Hō, sukoshi hayaru yōda na (ホウ、少しはやるようだな) will appear on the Taito Monitoring System above them, as his car speeds off the right side of the screen for a second time and the cops come to a beer bar. Its bartender will then appear on the screen:
Four rows of four cards shall then appear on the screen; once you have pressed one of the Answer Buttons to choose one on the first row, it will reveal either a picture of Gibson, Broady, Nancy, or Taito's triangular logo (introduced 1988) as the text "START" appears on your side of the screen. You will then have to do the same for one on the second row - and if it matches the first one, the text "TWIN" will appear on your side of the screen (however, if it's different to the first one, you'll lose and the Kanji/Hiragana text Zan'nen jikai ni kitai, 残念次回に期待, will appear on the screen). But in the case of it matching the first one, you will have to do the same thing again for one on the third row; if it matches the first two, the text "AGAIN" will appear on your side of the screen (but if it doesn't, you'll again lose and the three-script text of Mei aitemu no setsumei shimasu, 名アイテムの説明します, shall appear on the screen with the three-script text of Tsugi no suteppu nomi tokuten 2-bai 次のステップのみ得点2倍 below it, which means your score for the next step will be doubled). But in the case of it matching the first two, you have to do the same thing once again for one on the fourth row - and if it matches the first three, that text "CURE" shall appear on your side of the screen, and you shall win, as that three-script text of Mei aitemu no setsumei shimasu (名アイテムの説明します) is again displayed on the screen with the two additional three-script texts of Tsugi no suteppu nomi 2-kai kotae rareru (次のステップのみ2回答えられる), and Ittei jikan ote tsuki sutokku genzan nashi (一定時間おてつきストック減算なし) below it, which means the questions for the next step only require two right answers, and you'll retain your present amount of life-wrenches. However, if it doesn't match the first three, you'll once again lose, and only the first two three-script texts that have just been mentioned will appear on the screen; you will also automatically lose if the timer below the cards runs out. Because the placement of the cards is randomly-generated, it is very difficult to turn over four matching cards in a row, even when you are using MAME to play, as savestates are not supported for Taito F2 games, and if you try to load one after saving it, the game shall abort. The screen will now return to the round's overworld map as Gibson (and Broady, in a two-player game) pursue Mustard to Step 3 - and two rectangles containing the texts of "ROUND 1" and "STEP 3 NORMA 8" shall come up into view from the bottom of the screen which means that you shall have to answer eight questions correctly between you (however, if you uncovered three matching cards the 8 in the second rectangle will read as a 2 instead).
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Gibson card
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Broady card
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Nancy card
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Taito logo card
Step 3[edit]
As mentioned on the previous page, four gift-wrapped boxes with the numbers 1 to 4 on them will get displayed on the screen at the start of this step, as the three-script text of Anata no unmei wo hiraku watashi no purezento. Sukinamono wo dōzo (あなたの運命を開く私のプレゼント。好きな物をどうぞ) gets displayed upon the Taito Monitoring System above them (Nancy shall also speak it from the Yamaha YM-2610 below them); once you've pushed one of the Answer Buttons to choose a box, it shall become a silhouette as one of four Katakana, Kanji or English texts appears upon it: Hazure (ハズレ, which means that this step's questions shall have four possible answers), 3-taku (3択, meaning the questions shall have three possible answers), 2-taku (2択, meaning the questions shall have two possible answers), and JUMP (which means the step will get skipped). If you hesitate too long, the fourth box will get chosen automatically, but if the English text JUMP appears on it when it becomes a silhouette, it will be to your benefit, as you are skipped over this step to the fourth one - however, if it doesn't, you must play this step, and answer eight or two questions correctly between you in order to proceed to it.
Once you have answered eight (or two if you uncovered three matching cards) questions correctly between you Gibson's (or Broady's) car will catch up on Mustard's for the third and final time; however, a picture of Mustard and the three-script text Han, doko kara demo mo kakatte ki na (ハンッ、どこからでもかかって来な) will appear on the Taito Monitoring System above them as his car speeds off the right side of the screen for a third and final time and the cops' cars stop. The picture of Mustard shall then reappear on the screen as the three-script text of Tokuina janru wo erande, kakatte ki na. (得意なジャンルを選んで、かかって来な。) appears on the Taito Monitoring System above it - and four neon signs of Kanji and Katakana texts which represent different question categories, and are randomly-generated will then appear on the screen. Once you have pressed one of the Answer Buttons to select one of the categories, its sign will light up; the screen will then proceed to a chase-view shot of Gibson's (and Broady's, in a two-player game) cars and the Special Investigation Department helicopter pursuing Mustard's car, as the three-script text of Tokubetsu hokyū wo okonau. Sukina hako wo erabe. (特別補給を行なう。 好きな箱を選べ。) appears on the Taito Monitoring System above it. The game shall then automatically proceed to the fourth step.
Step 4 ("BATTLE")[edit]
At the start of this step, four parachute boxes with the numbers 1 to 4 on them shall appear upon the screen, as the three-script text of Tokubetsu hokyū wo okonau. Sukina hako wo erabe. (特別補給を行なう。 好きな箱を選べ。) appears on the Taito Monitoring System above them; once you've (both, in a two-player game) pressed one of the Answer Buttons to choose a box, it shall become a silhouette as either the Katakana text of Hazure (ハズレ) or the English text STOCK + ? appears on it. In the case of the former, the Kanji text of "Zan'nen! Hokyū kansei" (「残念! 補給失敗」) shall appear to the right of the box on the screen (which means you will not receive anything) but in the case of the latter, the three-script text of "Sutokku ga X ko kaifuku" (「ストックがX個回復」 with X again ranging from 1 to 3) will appear to the right of it instead (which means you will receive between one and three additional life-wrenches) - and the screen shall then return to that chase-view shot of Gibson's (and Broady's, in a two-player game) cars pursuing Mustard's from the end of the previous step (only without the Special Investigation Department helicopter) as the step's first question is asked. Every time either player answers a question correctly in this step, Gibson (or Broady in the case of Player 2) uses his car's Turbo Booster to catch up with Mustard's and ram it; once you've answered a total of ten questions correctly between you, it will burst into flames and stop. The screen will now cut to a shot of Gibson (and Broady, in a two-player game) arresting Mustard, as the three-script text Kuinige jōshūhan, Dagu Masutādo wo genkōhan de taiho suru. (食い逃げ常習犯、ダグ＝マスタードを現行犯で逮捕する。) appears on the Taito Monitoring System above it and Nancy will then reappear to introduce a bonus game:
The screen shall then cut to a shot of four broken windows as a target of a criminal appears in one of them while three more targets of innocents appear in the others (the text below the windows shall also change from "READY" to "SHOT!!" after the targets appear); once you've pushed the Answer Button corresponding to the window the target of the criminal is in, a bullet hole shall appear on the target and you will receive 1000 points (both players' points are displayed at the bottom of the screen, while their classes which start at Junsa 巡査 and progress to Junsa Buchō 巡査部長 after shooting six targets of criminals are displayed at the top of it). However, if you accidentally press any Answer Button corresponding to a window a target of an innocent is in, a bullet hole will again appear on it but you won't receive any points for it - and after ten lots of four targets the game shall proceed to the second round.
Note: The English texts POWER x 2 and POWER x 3 may also appear on the parachute boxes when they are selected, for which cases the three-script text "2/3-bai no damēji wo ataemasu.", 「2/3倍のダメージを与えます。」, shall appear to the right of them on the screen (which means that each time a player answers a question correctly and their cop uses his Turbo Boost to ram Mustard's car, it'll deal twice or thrice as much damage to it so you shall only have to answer a total of five for 2x damage or four for 3x damage questions correctly between you in order to make it burst into flames and stop).