WW2 Blitz

Claudiu Colteu

About this game

Take the stick. Clear the sky.

WW2 BLITZ is a portrait arcade shooter built like a cabinet: one credit, eight operations, no waiting for a meter to refill. You grab your fighter and the guns stay up. The rest is skill, greed, and whether you save the bomb.

HOW TO FLY — PHONE
Touch and hold the plane. It follows your thumb on a short leash — tight enough for micro-dodges, loose enough that your finger does not sit on the sprite. Let go and you stop shooting. Double-tap to dump a screen-clearing bomb.

HOW TO FLY — HANDHELD (operator card)
Built for Retroid Pocket and similar Android cabinets. Hold the unit in portrait with ABXY, Start, and the right stick at the BOTTOM of the glass. That hand stays off the sky.

IN THE SKY
• Right stick — fly. Nudge to weave, rim to dash.
• Hold A — vulcan.
• Press B — bomb (one press).

TITLE (yellow carets)
• Right stick up / down — walk 1P START, AUDIO, DIFFICULTY, CONTINUE, FIGHTER.
• A — open the caret row. On 1P START that inserts a credit.
• Start — always inserts a credit.
• Y — jump to difficulty. X — jump to fighter. B — jump to audio.

DIP SCREENS
• Difficulty and Continue — right stick up / down. A (or Start) locks and returns to title.
• Fighter — right stick left / right (P-38 / Hellcat). A locks and returns.
• Audio — stick up / down picks BGM or SFX, left / right is volume. A returns.

AFTER A MAP
• Recap, GAME OVER, CONTINUE? — A or Start.
• Name entry — right stick bumps the letter, A locks it.

USB Xbox-style pads use the left stick and the same face buttons.

You start with three lives, and each life takes three hits. Chip damage turns the hull pips gold, then red. The last pip blinks. The next solid hit is a funeral.

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER
P-38 Lightning — faster, twin-column vulcan, built to thread patterns.
F6F Hellcat — heavier, a three-way spread, built to cover the screen.

Both carry homing missiles once you are fully powered. Pick on the hangar panel; the game remembers.

EIGHT OPERATIONS
A single campaign. No stage-select grid. CLOUD FORTRESS, IRON TREADS, STEEL ATLANTIC, FROZEN FRONT, CORAL ATOLL, JUNGLE RUINS, ASCENT CANOPY and ORBIT THRESHOLD. Each map has its own music, formations, and a fortress. Orbit Threshold is a mute ascent: three escort pairs, then the fortress.

Mid-campaign captains (destroyer, tank, heavy, helicopter) hold, dump medals, then dive off. Leave the title idle for attract demo — tap, press a button, or flick the stick to take over.

POWER, MEDALS, GREED
P items step your shot up to three. Extra P at max power still pays. B restocks bombs; extra B at three in the rack pays more. Every kill drops a spinning medal — catch them face-up if you can, they are the real money. Secret medals sit on timed rails if you know the route. Graze enemy fire for extra points. A panic bomb erases shots in the blast and cooks anything still in the fire.

Finish a map clean and the recap pays like a cabinet: NO MISS and NO BOMB in gold if you earned them, SECRET if you robbed the rails. Extends at 50,000 then every 100,000. The table is local, per difficulty, and it only wants a one-credit clear.

DIPSWITCHES
Monkey through Hardcore. Shot speed, density, and score multiplier all move. Hardcore is for people who still remember what a credit was worth.

CONTINUE is an operator switch — zero, one, or two extra bodies, default off. Spend one and you stay on this map. Spend one and you do not qualify for ranking. The board is for 1CC.

RANKS
Local high scores. Initials. No account, no ads, no in-app purchases. Your ranking lives on this device.

Portrait. Offline. Thumb or stick.

WW2 BLITZ. Insert one player.

What’s new

Handheld cabinet controls. Hold a Retroid in portrait with ABXY and the right stick at the bottom of the glass — that hand stays off the plane. Right stick flies, hold A to fire, B bombs. Title and dip menus use the same stick; A confirms. Phone thumb leash unchanged.