The briefing

About this game

Forgotten Worlds, titled Lost Worlds in Japan, is a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1988. It was Capcom's first title for the CP System arcade hardware.

In a distant future, the evil god Bios has devastated Earth, creating the wasteland known as the Dust World. Two nameless supersoldiers are sent to defeat Bios and the eight evil gods who serve him.

Gameplay

  • Supports up to two players simultaneously.
  • Players control flying soldiers armed with rifles with unlimited ammunition.
  • Player 1 uses a long-range automatic rifle, while Player 2 uses a short-range wide shot.
  • The arcade version uses an eight-way joystick and a rotatable roll switch for movement, aiming, and firing.
  • A rapidly pressed roll switch triggers a megacrush attack that destroys all on-screen enemies at the cost of some vitality.