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Navarone is an arcade game developed and released by Namco in February 1980. It runs on Namco's Warp & Warp hardware. It is the first of the 3 monochromatic games released by Namco (the 2nd being Kaetai Takara Sagashi, and the last being SOS).

You pilot a ship destroying 2 of 3 things from a top-down perspective. There are dots, bombs and shooters. It was one of the first arcade shooters that could not only move you from left-to-right but could also move you top-to-bottom. Dots and Bombs are located all over the screen. the objective is to shoot all dots & bombs, and shoot the enclosed skull in the middle for extra bonus points. There is also a time limit. Shooting a dot will remove it from the screen but shooting a bomb will explode and destroy dots & bombs around it, causing the other bombs to explode. this causes a chain reaction. Shooters cannot be shot. They can shoot at you and make you lose a life. The skull in the middle will randomly pick a side were there is an opening in the box it is enclosed in. That is your chance to score 200 points.