Gate of Thunder

Gate of Thunder is a 1992 scrolling shooter by Hudson Soft and Red Entertainment for the PC Engine Super CD-ROM². It was also a pack-in game for the TurboDuo in North America,[1] where it was bundled with Bonk’s Adventure, Bonk’s Revenge, and Bomberman (the last one playable only after entering a code) on the same disc. It was released on the Wii Virtual Console on October 15, 2007 in North America and on December 4, 2007 in Japan. The game is the first CD based game on the American Virtual Console.[2] It was released on the PlayStation Network on March 17, 2010 in Japan.

The player controls the spaceship Hunting Dog, piloted by a space cop named Hawk. Along with ally Esty and her ship the Wild Cat, Hawk must stop General Don Jingi and his Obellon army from taking a powerful energy source called “Starlight” from the planet of Aries.