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Game Info --------------------------------------------------- Developer: Gealco Publisher: Gaelco Year of Release: 1992 Game Review & Impressions --------------------------------------------------- Gaelco is a fascinating oddity in the world of coin-op arcade games. Sandwiched between the likes of Atari and Midway in the West, and Sega, Data East and other Japanese gaming giants in the East, this Spanish studio produced some of the quirkiest arcade games of the 1990s. I'd recently completed a longplay of TH Strike Back, only to discover that it was, in fact, a sequel to Thunder Hoop. The game had impressed and intrigued me in equal measure, so I decided to go back and check out the prequel first. At its core, Thunder Hoop is a run-and-gun shooter, with a spoonful of platforming stirred in for good measure. The general theme is a pastiche akin to Dragon Ball Z, with anime-styled cutscenes, although this doesn't carry over to the game itself. It's as if the
