Thunder Fox is an arcade game created by Taito. It was released in arcades in 1990 and for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis in 1991. It was later released on various consoles such as the Xbox and PlayStation 2 in a compilation of Taito classics. The title of the compilation is Taito Legends. The gameplay for Thunder Fox is similar to other popular side scrolling action games like Namco's Rolling Thunder (video game), and Sega's Shinobi (arcade game). There are three buttons for each player - Attack, which normally is used to make Thunder and Fox (the game's heroes) stab with their knives. Jump, and a Weapon button which fires or throws a weapon acquired by the heroes. What makes this game unique is that the game gives players the opportunity to allow players to use their obtained weapons (save for the hand grenades) as melee weapons which helps conserve ammunition for when it's needed.
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Thunder Fox, starring Thunder and Fox, is honestly pretty bad. Imagine a game like Ninja Warriors with some Rolling Thunder mixed in, but the potential for the end result is squandered by just being annoying, awkward, and really choppy for some reason. The choppiness may be due to a shoddy port job, though, since the arcade version looks like it runs fine. It's only 5 levels long, but feels a lot longer when you're constantly getting jumped from all sides without much room to adjust even in the first level.
There's a lot better run and gun shooters, not only even at the time, but especially at the time. I would assume you could probably buy something like Super C for less money back then (correct me if I'm wrong, though), and Sunset Riders released in arcades the same month this Genesis port came out. Why would you be playing Thunder Fox instead?