Night Striker (World) - Gioco MAME

Videogioco arcade pubblicato 34 anni fa:

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".

DATI TECNICI
Hardware Taito Z System
Adesivi prom: B91

CPU principale: (2x) Motorola 68000
CPU sonora: Zilog Z80
Chip sonori: Yamaha YM2610

Giocatori: 1
Controllo: stick
Pulsanti: 2

CURIOSITÀ
Night Striker è stato rilasciato in Giappone nel Luglio 1989 e a livello internazionale nell'Ottobre 1989.

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 hanno pubblicato un album della colonna sonora in edizione limitata di questo gioco l'11 Novembre 1989 (Darius II: G.S.M. Taito 4 - PCCB-00010-12).

A new version of the soundtrack è stato rilasciato 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 il 1º Aprile 1999 (Zuntata History L'ab-normal 1st - ZTTL-0038).

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

CONSIGLI E TRUCCHI

• 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
Produttore esecutivo: Keisuke Hasegawa

CONVERSIONI

• CONSOLE:

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

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