1943: The Battle of Midway

1943: The Battle of Midway
North American arcade flyer
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Designer(s)	Yoshiki Okamoto
Composer(s)	Original release: Kumi Yamaga 1943 Kai: Manami Matsumae Takashi Tateishi Junko Tamiya Hiroshige Tonomura Tamayo Kawamoto Harumi Fujita
Platform(s)	Arcade game, NES, PC Engine, Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, PlayStation Portable, Xbox One
Release	June 1987 (Arcade)
Genre(s)	Vertical scrolling shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player, 2 player Co-op
Cabinet	Upright
Arcade system	Capcom Commando Hardware
CPU	Z80 @ 6 MHz
Sound	Sound CPU: Z80 @ 3 MHz Sound Chips: (2x) YM2203 @ 1.5 MHz
Display	Raster, 224 x 256 pixels (Vertical), 256 colors

1943: The Battle of Midway (1943 ミッドウェイ海戦, Ichi Kyū Yon San: Middouei Kaisen^?) is a 1987 shoot 'em up arcade game developed and published by Capcom. It was the first followup to Capcom's earlier 1942.

The game is set in the Pacific theater of World War II, off the coast of the Midway Atoll. The goal is to attack the Japanese air fleet that bombed the American aircraft carrier, pursue all Japanese air and sea forces, fly through the 16 stages of play, and make their way to the Japanese battleship Yamato and destroy her. 11 of these stages consist of an air-to-sea battle (with a huge battleship or an aircraft carrier as the stage boss), while 5 stages consist of an all-aerial battle against a squadron of Japanese bombers with a mother bomber at the end.

As in 1942, players pilot a P-38 Lightning. Controls are also similar: button 1 fires main weapons, and button 2 performs two special actions: a loop maneuver like in 1942, or one of three special lightning attacks in exchange for some of the player's fuel. Indeed, players now have only one life, in the form of a large "fuel" meter; constantly depleting, but refillable by collecting various powerups (chiefly "Pow" icons). In 2-player mode, when both players overlap their planes on screen, the energy bar can be transferred from the player with more fuel to the player with less. Destroying a complete formation of red enemy planes will result in a power-up, such as a health boost or a new main weapon.