Coin-Op, Video Game, and Arcade – Cheats, Easter Eggs, and Bugs

Easter Egg: From the beginning of the game, rescue four hostages in a row. You have to do this to get the tear gas gun. Shortly after getting the fourth hostage, there will be a convict shooting down at you from a building. He is the first window shooter in the game. Gas him to get an interesting peep-show!

Double-pump the gas pedal to pop a wheelie and get a short burst of increased speed.

To get to bonus fights (such as Death 13, and D'Arby) play through the game with no losses, and finish each opponent off with a super move.

To get to bonus fights (such as Death 13, and D'Arby) play through the game with no losses, and finish each opponent off with a super move.

Bug: The most famous bug is known as the "Pterodactyl bug". First, cause one of the red riders to get caught by the lava hands on either side of the screen. Then, position yourself so that you can kill the pterodactyls as they come in from either side of the screen. This trick only works on certain ROM revisions of the game, though.

To jumpstart your score, avoid shooting anything until the asteroid appears usually about 15 to 20 seconds into each wave. Since aliens get more hostile over time, this only works well for the first few non-formation waves.<P>The game has only sixteen distinct waves. Once you pass the sixteenth wave, they will repeat, starting over with wave one the aliens, however, remain very hostile. Scores start over at zero once you pass one million points.