Finest Hour

Finest Hour
Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Platform: Arcade (Namco System 2) Released in JP: September 1989 This game has a hidden developer message.

Finest Hour is a mech-based action game with the flying and the shooting. Really nice parallax scrolling effects in Rounds 1 and 2.

Developer Message

Present at 0x05FB0 in the slave CPU:

LIVING ON A LIGHTED STAGE
APPROACHES THE UNREAL
FOR THOSE WHO THINK AND FEEL
IN TOUCH WITH SOME REALITY
BEYOND THE GILDED CAGE
CAST IN THIS UNLIKELY ROLE
ILL-EQUIPPED TO ACT
WITH INSUFFICIENT TACT
ONE MUST PUT UP BARRIERS
TO KEEP ONESELF INTACT

These are the opening lyrics to Rush's "Limelight".

(Source: Original TCRF research)