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Screenshot of Ajax
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| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | Konami |
| Designer(s) | K. Hiroshita and team |
| Released | 1987 |
| Genre | Shooter game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, 2 player co-op |
| Platform(s) | Arcade game |
| Input methods | 8-way Joystick, 3 Buttons for Shoot, Bomb and Special Power |
| Arcade cabinet | Vertical |
| Arcade CPU | KONAMI, Z80, M6809 |
| Arcade sound system | YM2151, K007232 |
| Arcade display | Raster, 224 x 288 pixels, 2048 colors |
Ajax is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by Konami in 1987. The game was also released on the home computer systems ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 in 1988 by Imagine Software under the name Typhoon. The players controls a helicopter (in the 2D stage) and later a fighter jet (in the 3D stage), and shoots enemies in the air and bomb them on the ground, collecting power-ups and defeating bosses to advance levels.
Ports
The IBM PC and Tandy 1000 ports were done by Banana Development, Inc. It was written completely in 8086 assembly language. To support flicker free scrolling, double buffering was used. The music routines supported 4 note polyphony on suitable sound hardware, as well as interrupting to play sound effects related to the game play. (The computer graphics and the music for the game were actually authored/transcribed on an Amiga 500 and then the files transferred to the IBM platform used by the software designer.)
