Die Hard Arcade

The Hard Arcade is a beat 'em up for two players who play as either John McClane or Chris Tompsen (Bruno Delinger and Cindy Holiday in the original Japanese version). Players fight their way through waves of enemies using their fists, feet and a variety of weapons they can collect from enemies or the environment, from household items like brooms and pepper shakers to rocket launchers and high-damage anti-tank guns. Most weapons are automatically lost at the end of each action scene, but handguns can be kept as long as they still have ammunition. The typical level structure consists of a series of minions that the player must defeat in many rooms, followed by a boss. The bosses can be anything from human servants of White Fang to spider robots. Quick time events are interspersed between many scenes. In these events, the player may be running around a corner and come face to face with an enemy, requiring him/her to execute a specific command to avoid getting hurt or defeating an enemy. In some cases, failing a Quick Time Event will result in a loss of health, as is common with QTEs, but in most cases the player characters are placed in an additional action scene that they would not otherwise have to complete. There are always cutscenes in between.