New York, New York! (Arcade) FAQ/Walkthrough
version 1.0.0 by schultw.andrez@sbcglobal.net(spam spoonerism)

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much profit anyway, but that's not the point. This took time and effort, and 
I just wanted to save a memory of an old game and the odd solutions any way I 
could. Please send me an email referring to me and this guide by name if 
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            OUTLINE

  1. INTRODUCTION

  2. CONTROLS

  3. STRATEGIES AND LEVELS

  4. VERSIONS

  5. CREDITS

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  1. INTRODUCTION

New York New York is a game that seized on the popularity of Space Invaders. 
Any twist on SI seemed new and intriguing, until you played the game for 5 
minutes and realized the levels looped. Or worse, you got killed early, and 
it seemed too hard. A bunch of enemies come swirling out of the sides and 
float around in circles, firing at you and negating your missiles and 
protecting a big UFO in the center, before flying off again. Sometimes the 
saucers change colors, and if you play well, you can bomb the circular UFO. 
Shoot two waves of enemy saucers and you get a big flat UFO to shoot.

Years later I played this on MAME and I still found it was pretty awful. I 
had so little patience with it I didn't even bother to watch the demo with 
the weird pinwheely thingy to see how it blew up. It offers some alternate 
strategy, but not enough. Even though monsters enter and exit the screen at 
different points as levels go on, it's not enough to break up the repetition.

I'd hoped to really excoriate this game once I played through it again, but 
fact is, it's not really terrible. It just offers nothing new and is too slow. 
It combines Space Invaders and Galaga in the worst possible way, it's 
repetitive, and I remember seeing it at K-Mart and wasting fifty precious 
cents on it and being frustrated you couldn't even write your initials for a 
high score.

The incomplete sounds MAME notifies you about are the text listed here:

http://klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8858

  2. CONTROLS

You get 2 shots on the screen at any one time, and if one is cocked in your 
spaceship, you can fire again. Your ship moves faster than the enemies' 
missiles do(horizontally) and slower than the enemies. That's pretty much it, 
though if you cheat with MAME, you can go invincible, get infinite lives 
and/or get 4 shots.

You get an extra life at 3000 but not at future multiples. Enemy saucers are 
as follows:

white 10
red 10
green 20
yellow 30
blue 40
multiple of 50 points for killing the front UFO in any formation
No penalties for letting enemies cycle in and out

The pinwheel starts red then turns green, yellow, blue, purple, light blue 
and white. Maybe at later levels you get different colored UFOs but the 
colors don't matter much.

Enemies move in formation and stay that way even when they are a different 
color. However, on later waves they go faster. An enemy can spray 3 different 
missiles at once.

End-wave flat UFOs start at 150 and move up by 50 points, though if you 
destroy the big UFO, the bonus seems to get reset to 100. Big UFOs go off the 
screen and reappear at the bottom, but no UFO can ever kill you by touching 
you no matter how they leave the screen.

The bonus total you see in the top center when you shoot the pinwheel UFO is 
how much you will get for destroying it.

  3. STRATEGIES AND LEVELS

--watch how the enemies loop. Stand under the center of the loop and try to 
fire at the pinwheel.
--it's easier to hit the pinwheel with one enemy left, as they will not get 
in the way of your shots. You can usually time things so your shots miss the 
enemy, or maybe you can just leave two enemies so that it's no problem if you 
hit one by accident.
--fire where the enemies are about to go, and be prepared to anticipate an 
enemy firing just as they shoot you. The more bullets already on the board, 
the less chance an enemy will shoot something at you.
--under the pinwheel is the best place to shoot for the bonus, but to the 
left(if enemies go counterclockwise) is the best place to shoot enemies. They 
stay in your line of fire longer.
--the big UFO loops, too.
--the pinwheel stays in place for a random amount of time, so don't get 
frustrated if you miss it.
--there may be an ending, but if so, I couldn't find it, and KLOV has no 
information either.

End of FAQ Proper

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  4. VERSIONS

1.0.0: sent to GameFAQs 12/18/2007, complete

  5. CREDITS

Thanks to the usual GameFAQs gang, current and emeritus. They know who they 
are, and you should, too, because they get/got some SERIOUS writing done. 
Good people too--bloomer, falsehead, Sashanan, Masters, Retro, Snow 
Dragon/Brui5ed Ego, ZoopSoul, War Doc, Brian Sulpher, AdamL, odino, JDog and 
others I forgot. OK, even Hydrophant in his current not-yet-banned message 
board incarnation. I am not part of his gang, but I want him to be part of 
mine.
Thanks to klov.com for letting me know what the sound was supposed to say.