Avenger is a vertically-scrolling shooter for the TurboGrafx CD where players control a plane navigating through levels filled with enemy aircraft, tanks, cannons, ships, and formidable bosses. The game features three weapon categories: main, sub, and special, allowing players to fire unlimited main and sub weapons while using limited powerful special attacks. Players can combine various weapon types and collect power-ups to enhance firepower during gameplay.
Avenger is a vertically-scrolling shooter, in which the player navigates a plane through levels populated by hostile planes, tanks, cannons, ships, stationary devices, and massive boss enemies. Before each mission, the player can choose among different weapons in three categories: main, sub, and special. Main and sub weapons are fired simultaneously and have unlimited ammunition, while the powerful special attacks are accessed by pressing a different button and are limited. The player can try any combination of the three categories, for example enhancing the main rocket launcher with a pod that fires laser to the sides as a sub weapon, and a protective shield as a special one. Power-ups change properties rapidly, so the player has to catch them at a specific time to enhance either main, sub, or special weapon. Those power-ups do not change the properties of a weapon, but rather give it additional fire power.