ASO – Armored Scrum Object (entitled Alpha Mission in the original USA arcade release) is a one-player scrolling shooter game, similar to Xevious in its segregation of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons. Missiles are used to destroy ground enemies, while laser-like weapons are used for aerial opponents. Throughout each of the levels, the player must fight off waves of enemies that threaten several space stations and a boss must be defeated at the end of each. Like most early games in this genre, when the player dies, all weapons are lost and the player is moved to a point slightly before the point of death. The player's craft can also be upgraded to have more powerful weapons by picking up various power-ups throughout the level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ASO – Armored Scrum Object (entitled Alpha Mission in the original USA arcade release) is a one-player scrolling shooter game, similar to Xevious in its segregation of air-to-air and air-to-ground […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1082],"tags":[6850,3899,6949,3528,3021,6847,3033,3529,6866,3004,3464,6948,6848,6463,6950],"class_list":["post-11321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shooter","tag-6850","tag-2d","tag-alpha-mission","tag-boss-battles","tag-co-op","tag-flying-vertical","tag-netplay","tag-power-ups","tag-r-type","tag-retro","tag-sci-fi","tag-scrolling-shooter","tag-shmup","tag-vertical-shooter","tag-xevious"],"yoast_head":"\n