Dead End

Dead End (デッドエンド Deddo Endo^?) is a boss in the MSX port of Salamander.

Description[]

Dead End is the boss of planet Eioneus and is fought right after Fortress Valis. He appears in Salamander MSX only. He is a weaker version of Metal Slave, having only three cores.

Attack patterns[]

Dead End moves around, periodically firing lasers from four ports on the front. It also attempts to ram you. Destroying the blue core opens up the path to the main core, meaning you can finish it off without destroying all the cores. It has a high amount of health, but the cores are destroyed in one hit.

Trivia[]

The song used in the Level 4 of the NES version of Gradius II has the same name.
Dead End is named after the Japanese heavy metal/hard rock band of the same name.

Salamander
Characters and ships	Vic Viper · Lord British (Lord British)· Saber Tiger and Thrasher (Iggy Rock and Zowie Scott) · Van Landroth Frehley · Lars XVIII · Super Cobra
Salamander stages	Bionic Germ · Meteorite Space · Burning Chaos · Volcano Area · Asteroid Hell · Salamander Planetoid
Salamander (MSX) stages	Top Flight Speed to Latis · Conduct to Space Station Zot · Set the Crush Blow System - Planet Eioneus · Set the Crush Blow System - Planet Lavinia · Set the Crush Blow System - Planet Kierke · Wrath of Venom · Crush Salamander
Life Force-only stages	Organic Speed Zone · Temple Zone
Salamander 2 stages	Sub-life Space · Prominence Fortress · Bio Hazard · Huge Battleship · Asteroid · Doom Fortress
Salamander bosses	Golem · Tetran · Intruder · Fortress Valis · Death · Big Core X3 · Jumping Moai · Zelos Force
Port exclusive bosses	Zylom · Gaw · Giga · Tutankhamon · Dead End · Enigma · True Venom · Metal Slave · Zelos Barrier
Salamander 2 bosses	Biter · Hydra · Abadon · Tenny Rop · Plate Core · Cerberus · Doom

Core Warships
Big Cores	Big Core MK I (Old Big Core) • Big Core Custom • Big Core MK-I Rev.2 • Big Core MK II • Big Core MK II Kai • Big Core MK III • Big Core MK IV
Big Core variants	Beacon • Berserk Core • Big Core Duo • Big Core DX-01 • Big Core Orthos • Big Core Prometheus • Blaster Cannon Core • Boost Core • Bubble Core • Circle Core • Coreship • Crater Core • Crystal Core • Dellinger Core • Desert Core • Heaven's Gate • Juggler Core • Laser Core • Lizard Core • Mirrored Core • Neo Big Core • Parasite Core • Perla Meralda • Planet Core • Rexion Core • Rolling Core • Serpent Core • Shining Core • Super Big Core • Terra Core • Vanishing Core • Genocide Core • Odin Core
Core-style bosses	Abaddon Warship • Bolboros • Covered Core • Covered Core MK II • Dead End • Deltatry • Kraken • Mayhem Warship • Metal Slave • Misfit Warship • Queensrÿche • Riot Warship • Plate Core
Pseudo-Cores	Death • Death MK II (DeathDouble) • Death MK III • Beta Core • Nobil • Tri-Pod Core • Triple Core • Crash Bam
Tetran variants	Tetran (Zylom • Tetran Sweeper • Tetran Scavenger) • Covered Tetran • Crystal Core D-X02 • Laser Tetran • Tenny Rop
Parody Cores	Candy Core • Decoration Core • Decoration Core MK II • Viva Core