Cross-Strait Independence

Setting, sometime during 2019. I was sitting at my desk, like any other Tuesday, as the ominous sound of fighter jets overhead filled my ears. For a Taiwanese though, this is no noteworthy occurrence, since relations between us and the mainland have been on the fritz for years.

This would be no ordinary day though. Explosions rang out, and alarms went off. I now knew that this wasn't just some sort of sick psychological mind game instigated by the People's Liberation Army, rather an all-out invasion! It's time to do what we were trained to do, to defend our lands and fight for our freedom. Despite all odds NEVER SAY DIE!!

Although based upon fantastical events, Cross-Strait Independence is the only game for red-white compatible eight-bit gaming machines, which directly confronts the turbulence surrounding Asia's nation.

Flying through a variety of locations based on real places, one will encounter such enemies as pig carcasses washed upon the shores of Taiwan, which have been infected with African Swine Fever. Communist flags and evil baskets filled with steamed dumplings are also eager to stop you in your tracks. Avoid betel nut-spitting monkeys, while navigating your plane around dense forests of betel nut trees. Hoards of soldiers and enemy planes of various kinds are also eager to shoot you down.

Cross-Strait Independence starts the fighter off in Kenting, and he or she will travel up the west coast of Taiwan, eventually arriving in Taipei in the north. Multiple paths across the island provide gamers with hours of gaming fun.