Steel Talons was originally an arcade video game by Atari Games

Atari Games

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, and was released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis

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, the Atari Lynx handheld, Atari ST

Atari ST

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, Atari Falcon

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 and SNES

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. In the arcade, it came as a two-player cockpit cabinet and featured both cooperative and competitive game play modes.

Game story

The player takes on the role of a pilot for an "AT1196 Steel Talons combat helicopter." The game's helicopter is equipped with a machine gun

Machine gun

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, rocket

Rocket

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s, and a limited number of air-to-surface guided missile

Air-to-surface missile

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s. Several missions are available for play. Completing early missions unlocks later missions.