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Synopsis

Gyrodine is a vertical scrolling shoot'em up, in which the player controls a gyrodyne, a hybrid of helicopter and plane, which has blades for lift and another system for propulsion.
The game has two buttons, and the player has three weapons at his disposal. A button fires projectiles at aerial targets. The other button fires the machine gun at ground targets. If both buttons are pressed at the same time, the gyrodyne fires a homing missile. Therefore, the player cannot fire both cannons at the same time. Additionally, when the player moves from right to left, the cannons roll.
There is no break between levels, but there are long periods where enemies do not attack, and end up lunging at the player. The game has very detailed graphics for the time, with small people, cars, houses and even umbrellas on the beaches.

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