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Play Hostages (Japan edition · Japanese) Online
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Play Hostages online on NES. Evade searchlights, position snipers, rappel into the embassy and coordinate a first-person hostage rescue.
Browser play
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B | Z / X |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Hostages
Quick start
Start with the lowest difficulty and TRAINING, then confirm the briefing and first operative with A. Use doorways and walls to hide from searchlights and follow the map to an X-marked sniper position. After deployment, use a sniper to cover the entry side. Lower an assault member with short Down presses, stopping with Up; at a clear window use A+Right as indicated in the Japanese manual to enter. Inside, follow the floor map and distinguish captives from enemies.
Controls
START begins; D-pad selects and A confirms. Street: Left/Right moves, Up hides or enters a post, Down leaves cover or lies prone, Down+Right rolls; A/B checks the map from cover. Sniper: D-pad aims, A fires, SELECT returns to the operation map. Rappel: Down descends, Up stops; the Japanese manual specifies A+Right to break into a window. Indoors, Direct mode uses map directions: press a direction to face it, then again to advance. Rotate mode uses facing-relative directions with Up forward. A fires; hold A with the D-pad to aim.
Hostages — About this game
Hostages turns one hostage crisis into several connected kinds of play. First, three snipers must reach marked positions outside the embassy without being caught in the moving searchlights. Their surviving positions determine which sides of the building you can cover. You then watch windows through a scope, reducing the danger before lowering the assault team from the roof. Rappelling demands short, controlled movements: dropping too far can cost an operative before he even reaches a room. Inside, the view changes to first person and the floor map helps you locate enemies and captives. The challenge is to coordinate these stages within the mission's time limit, not to rush in firing at every figure.
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nes
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
Sources and editorial basis
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