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Midnight Resistance

ShooterPlatformArcade

Released

Aug 11, 1991

12,862 days ago
Platforms
  • Genesis
  • Arcade
  • Amiga
  • Amstrad CPC
  • Atari ST/STE
  • +2
Ratings

Release dates

North America dates
  1. Aug 11, 199112,862 days ago
    • Genesis

About

Midnight Resistance is a side-scrolling action shooting game produced by Data East for the arcades in 1989. The game was ported by Data East to the Sega Mega Drive in 1990 and by Ocean Software to various home computer platforms during the same year. The game is set in a dystopian future where the player controls a member of a resistance movement who goes on a mission to rescue his kidnapped family from a mad scientist.

Trailers

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How long to beat

HowLongToBeat ↗ · 12 players
Main story
31 min
Completionist
43 min

Reviews

IGDB players79/10024 ratings

Game info

Released
1989 · see every game from that year
Modes
Single player · Co-operative
Perspective
Side view
Multiplayer
  • Couch co-op 2

Editions, DLC & expansions

Studios

Languages

1 language
English
LanguageAudioSubtitlesInterface
EnglishEnglish (US)––

Themes & tags

Story & names

In the arcade version, two nameless brothers are on a mission to rescue their family from an entity known as King Crimson. In the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version, the main character is Johnny Ford who's a member of an operative group who shuts down drug cartels in South America. After completing his last mission, Johnny returned home only to find it in shambles, and he sees a note in which King Crimson kidnapped his entire family. The reason for the abduction is that Johnny's father, Malcolm Ford, was developing a serum which could help people break their addictions to all narcotics. Since the government is unable to help Johnny, he sets off on his own to rescue his family and destroy King Crimson's empire of evil for good.

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Also known as

  • Middonaito RejisutansuJapanese title - romanization

Release dates by region

9 releases in 4 regions

north america

japan

brazil

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Where to find it

Data from IGDB and Steam. Critic scores from OpenCritic. Dates shown for North America, in your local time zone.