History VideoGame / HighwayHunter

* TankGoodness: The first boss is a giant, highway-hogging tank with FrickinLaserBeams. Even after you destroy its turret, the body of the tank [[SequentialBoss continues to fight with its own weapons.]]

* NintendoHard: This game can be a pain, like any good shmup. However, the difficulty in this game was actually ''toned down'' [[DifficultyByRegion from the original Russian game]], HighwayFighter.

!!Highway Hunter provides examples of:

''Highway Hunter'' is a DOS-based VerticalScrollingShooter created by Russian developer Creator/OmegaIntegralSystems (as Highway Fighter, in that country) and published in 1994 by Safari Software, a division of EpicGames (Then Epic Megagames).

The MASTER is a powerful vehicle indeed, able to take several hits before [[EveryCarIsAPinto blowing up]], [[OneHitWonder unlike many scrolling shooter vehicles.]] Dropped [[PowerUp powerups]] you can acquire include [[HealThySelf health boosts,]] weapon upgrades (which stack on top of one another- if a weapon runs out of ammo, it reverts to the next level down, rather then bumping you back to your basic laser), shield upgrades that let you ram enemy vehicles and absorb projectiles, and the occasional SmartBomb. Each level has you progress along a raised highway, fighting off enemy cars and aircraft, eventually reaching a BossBattle. The game is divided into three episodes: [[MookMobile Evil Drivers,]] [[EldritchLocation The Lost Roads,]] and [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Anarchy.]] Each consists five levels, beginning with Earthlike environments and progressing towards steadily more alien ones, likely the result of {{Terraforming}}.

* BadAssDriver: See above.
* BottomlessMagazines: [[AvertedTrope mostly averted,]] your weapons have limited ammuntion, but if you somehow manage to be back on your [[EmergencyWeapon basic]] [[EnergyWeapon V-Laser]], it never runs out of juice.
* BossBattle: This game has a nice variety of bosses, from [[TankGoodness giant tanks]] and [[CoolPlane giant triple-rotor gunships]] to [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant]] [[KillItWithFire fire-breathing]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons dragon heads]]. Actually, pretty much every boss in this game is LargeAndInCharge.

* CoolCar: The MASTER certainly qualifies.
* EliteMooks: Curiously [[AvertedTrope absent]], enemies are either standard-issue [[MookMobile mook mobiles]] or [[BossBattle bosses.]] The larger enemies tend to be {{Fake Ultimate Mook}}s.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: You dish out your fair share of missiles, but enemies in this game ''love'' shooting missiles at you, in addition to the obligatory nondescript [[PowerGlows glowing]] [[EnergyBall Energy Balls.]] Thankfully, both can be shot down as your car is not PointDefenseless.

* MercyInvincibility
* MilitaryMashupMachine: A few bosses.

* OneHitPointWonder: The car is this in Hard difficulty. The lifebar is replaced with a [[VideoGameLives lives meter]], life powerups are extra lives instead, and your weapon reverts to the V-Laser each time you're hit.
* PowerUp: Weapon upgrades, [[SmartBomb Smart Bombs,]] and temporary DeflectorShields.
* SmartBomb

* TankGoodness: The first boss is a giant, highway-hogging tank with FrickinLaserBeams. Even after you destroy its turret, the body of the tank [[SequentialBoss continues to fight with it's own weapons.]]
* TooAwesomeToUse: Collect enough weapon powerups and you get access to a [[WaveMotionGun devastating laser]] that extends the length of the screen and hits anything that stays in the beam [[SpamAttack continuously.]] However, it has extremely limited ammunition.
* TopDownView: Everything except cutscenes (and some menus).

* {{Shareware}}: The first episode of the game was freely distributable, a la VideoGame/{{Doom}} and such titles from the twilight years of TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames.

* EliteMooks: Curiously [[AvertedTrope absent]], enemies are either standard-issue [[MookMobile mook mobiles]] or [[BossBattle bosses.]] The larger enemies tend to be [[LevelFiveOnix Level Five Onixes]].

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''Highway Hunter'' is a DOS-based VerticalScrollingShooter created by Russian developer OmegaIntegralSystems (as Highway Fighter, in that country) and published in 1994 by Safari Software, a division of EpicGames (Then Epic Megagames).

* MediumBlending: The backgrounds of some levels look painted and like pixel-art in others.

* YMMV/CrowningMusicOfAwesome: This game has some good tunes, but the track that plays in the short episode intros as well as episode 1, level 2 and episode 2, level 4 is so good it's an EarWorm.
* EliteMooks: Curiously absent, enemies are either standard-issue [[MookMobile mook mobiles]] or [[BossBattle bosses.]] The larger enemies tend to be [[LevelFiveOnix Level Five Onixes]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: This game has some good tunes, but the track that plays in the short episode intros as well as episode 1, level 2 and episode 2, level 4 is so good it's an EarWorm.

''Highway Hunter'' is a DOS-based VerticalScrollingShooter created by Russian developer OmegaIntegralSystems (as Highway Fighter, in that country) and published in 1994 by Safari Software, a division of EpicGames (Then Epic Megagames).

* {{Shareware}}: The first episode of the game was freely distributable, a la {{Doom}} and such titles from the twilight years of TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames.

* TooAwesomeToUse: Collect enough weapon powerups and you get access to a [[WaveMotionGun devastating laser]] that extends the length of the screen and hits anything that stays in the beam [[SpamAttack continuously.]] However, it has extremely limited ammunition.

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