Psyvariar -Medium Unit- (V2.04J 2000/02/15 11:00) - MAME machine

Taito G-Net card published 24 years ago:

Psyvariar - Medium Unit © 2000 Success.

TECHNICAL
Runs on the "Taito G-Net" hardware.

Players: 2
Control: 8-way joystick
Buttons: 2 → [A] Shoot, [B] Bomb

TRIVIA
Released in February 2000 in Japan.

TIPS AND TRICKS

• Buzz system: each time the nose or wings of the player's ship grazes a bullet or an enemy, this counts as one "buzz" (only the very center of the ship is vulnerable). For each buzz, a meter at the top of the screen increases by a small increment. When the meter fills up through repeated buzzing, the ship 'levels up' and experiences a brief moment of invincibility. The player can use this short period to risk buzzing more bullets to reach the next level-up, or to avoid particularly difficult bullet patterns. To aid buzzing bullets multiple times, the ship can be repeatedly spun on its axis by rapidly waggling the joystick left and right.
• Secret Stages: Finish a stage with regulation level:

2-C (Valley): Level 8
3-B (Cloud-bank): Level 18
4-C (Asteroid-belt): Level 26
4-D (Colony): Level 32
Stage 5-B (Photon): Level 38
5-C (Graviton): Level 53
6-B (Gluon): Level 52

• Secret Gfx: Finish all stages without continue ;

Single Play with 1P - male pilot?
Single Play with 2P - female pilot?
Dual Play - ???

SERIES

• Psyvariar - Medium Unit (2000)
• Psyvariar - Revision (2000)
• Psyvariar 2 - The Will To Fabricate (2003)
• Psyvariar Delta (2018)

STAFF
Planner: Ore808

Main Program: Ore808
Enemy Program: MR2151
Mechanic Design: Fire
Mechanic Modeling: Bymake2, Freez
BG Modeling & CG Rendering: Bymake2, Freez
Character Design: Katsuki, Fire
Sound Compose: Wasi303, Misako Adjumi Sekiguchi, MR2151, Ore808 (Omake)
Sound Effects: Wasi303

PORTS

• CONSOLES:

Sony PlayStation 2 (2002, "Psyvariar Complete Edition")

CONTRIBUTE
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