A second player can jump in at any time and shoot all the stuff.
A blantant rip-off of Blood Bros. - Playmark changed the setting to the Prohibition and changed the level progression a bit but otherwise its the same game. The player character is at the bottom of the single screen and has to kill everything incoming above.
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