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Romset and name:
nghtstru Night Striker (US)
Short name:
Night Striker
Manufacturer:
Taito America Corporation
Year:
Genre:
Not Classified
Category:
Not Classified
Serie:
-
Driver source:
Language:
-
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Input / Controls
Players:
Only one supported (solo)
Input:
Joystick 8 ways, Stick
Buttons / keys:
Coins:
Cabinet:
-
Free-play:
Not supported
Rankings
Average user rating:
AntoPISA BestGame:
-
MASH All-Time:
-
Video
Display:
320x240@60 Hz, CRT 15kHz
Orientation:
Horizontal
Scrolling:
Unknown
Colors:
-
CPU:
68000, Z80
Audio
Sound:
3 audio channel
Audio chips:
Volume Filter, YM2610
Romset
First release:
Mame 0.125u9 released on jul-03 2008
Last release:
Mame 0.132u5 released on jul-16 2009
Clone of:
nightstr Night Striker (World)
Bios:
Not required
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Use sample of:
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Previous romset:
nightstr Night Striker (World)
New romset:
nightstru Night Striker (US)
Files
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GOOD
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Status
OVERALL:
IMPERFECT
Emulation:
Good
Graphic:
Good
Color:
Good
Sound:
Good
Cocktail:
-
Protection:
Good
Save state:
Not supported
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  • NOTICE: These are informations from parent game nightstr - Night Striker (World)
    Arcade Video game published 35 years ago:

    Night Striker © 1989 Taito.

    Night Striker is a 3-D shoot-em-up rendered with fast moving, sprite-scaled graphics. Players must guide an armoured hover car through a number of scrolling levels - destroying waves of enemies in the process - in an attempt to rescue a scientist who has been kidnapped by a terrorist organization. A large guardian awaits players at the end of each level, with each one taking several hits to destroy.

    Instead of having a set number of lives, the player's vehicle is equipped with a shield that depletes whenever the player is hit by enemy fire or has collisions with either enemies or scenery. The player's shields are recharged at the end of every level.

    Night Striker takes its influences from many landmark games of the sprite scaling genre, all of which are Sega releases. The basic shoot-em-up gameplay is similar in style to both 1985's "Space Harrier" and 1987's "Thunder Blade". Some of the game's levels resemble those of 1988's "Galaxy Force II" as well as "Thunder Blade", while the game's level structure - a 'pyramid' of levels that allows players to chose their own route through the game with the use of end-of-level forked roads - is borrowed from the 1986 classic, "Out Run".

    TECHNICAL
    Taito Z System hardware
    Prom Stickers: B91

    Main CPU: (2x) Motorola 68000
    Sound CPU: Zilog Z80
    Sound Chips: Yamaha YM2610

    Players: 1
    Control: stick
    Buttons: 2

    TRIVIA
    Night Striker was released in July 1989 in Japan and in October 1989 internationally.

    Only 303 Japanese versions were produced.

    The eerie and ambient game soundtrack is by Zuntata, an internal team of composers within Taito responsible for other great soundtracks including Darius Gaiden, Gun-Lock, G-Darius.

    Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Darius II: G.S.M. Taito 4 - PCCB-00010-12) on November 11, 1989.

    A new version of the soundtrack was released in 1998 and is sprinkled with anecdotes (spoken in Japanese) about the game (Z-Replica Vol. 2 - Urban Trail Night Striker - ZTTL-0025).

    Zuntata Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Zuntata History L'ab-normal 1st - ZTTL-0038) on April 1, 1999.

    UPDATES
    The US version has the 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' screen.

    TIPS AND TRICKS
    • If you become 'out of control', you can shoot enemies until the continue screen appears.
    • When you are on the roads, you will get a 8X bonus score (this don't work on Sky, Rivers and Sea).

    STAFF
    Producer: Tohru Sugawara
    Director: Kenshi Kaito
    Software: Tohru Sugawara, Hideki Hashimoto, Toshiaki Tsukano, Tmr-Win, Iromust, Takashi Kitabayashi
    Character designers: Kohzoh Igarashi, Minori Ishino, Takako Kojima, Kenshi Kaito
    Hardware: Toshiyuki Sanada
    Electric: Tomio Takeda
    Mechanic: Tohru Yamamoto, Tohru Hirata, Tomio Suzuki, Nobuyuki Iwasaki
    Designers: Shinobu Sekiguchi, Akio Nomura
    Sound & music composed by (Zuntata): Masahiko Takaki
    Executive producer: Keisuke Hasegawa

    PORTS
    • CONSOLES:
    [JP] Sega Mega CD (may.28, 1993) "Night Striker [Model T-11014]"
    [JP] Sony PlayStation (jul.28, 1995) "Night Striker [Model SLPS-00050]"
    [JP] Sega Saturn (june.14, 1996) "Night Striker S [Model T-19901G]"
    [JP] Sony PS2 (mar.29, 2007) "Taito Memories II Gekan [Model SLPM-66713]"

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