Son Son - Gioco MAME

Videogioco arcade pubblicato 40 anni fa:

Son Son © 1984 Capcom Company, Limited.

The game is a 2-D sidescrolling platformer. The screen scrolls automatically, only stopping to fight major enemies. The screen features six continuous platforms that occasionally feature small gaps. Sonson and Tonton walk automatically across these platforms. Pressing up or down will cause them to jump up or down to the next platform. Pressing left causes them to move more slowly than the screen scrolls, essentially continuing to move forward but at a reduced pace. Pressing right does the opposite - SonSon and TonTon will move across the platforms faster than the screen scrolls. The duo have only one attack - the ability to fire energy blasts from their staves. Touching an enemy or an unfriendly projectile causes the player to lose a life. If a player has any additional lives, they will return to the screen riding on a cloud that will give them temporary invincibility. If the player presses the control stick in any direction, the cloud will disappear and the character will resume its usual walking mode. The cloud will eventually disappear on its own if the control stick is not used.

Power-ups come in the form of various fruits which produce points (with enough points giving the player an extra life). Gathering certain fruit will cause all enemies currently on a screen to turn into point-bearing fruits. Walking across certain platforms will randomly cause a bamboo shoot to sprout, yielding many extra points. Keep in mind that it is possible to play the game co-operatively with partner who plays as TonTon.

DATI TECNICI
CPU principale: Motorola M6809 (@ 2 Mhz)
CPU sonora: Motorola M6809 (@ 2 Mhz)
Chip sonori: (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1,5 Mhz)

Giocatori: 2
Controllo: Joystick a 8 direzioni
Pulsanti: 1

CURIOSITÀ
Son Son è stato rilasciato nel Luglio 1984. This was Capcom's second game and their first released in the United States.

Son Son is Capcom's tribute to a Chinese legend called 'Xiyou Ji', meaning 'Journey to the West', considered to be one of the four classic pieces of Chinese literature (and a fairly good read). The main character in Xiyou Ji is Sun Wukong, or, when you pronounce the words as if they were Japanese kanji, Son Gokuu (hence the name Son Son).

This game features one of the first game soundtracks composed by Tamayo Kawamoto, who made also other Capcom 80's BGM. She now works at Taito: she's a member of Zuntata, the popular (well, in Japan) Taito band where she plays keyboards.

SERIE

• Son Son (1984, Arcade)
• Son Son II [Modello H54G1003] (1989, PC-Engine)

STAFF
Progettato da: Yoshiki Okamoto
Musica di: Tamayo Kawamoto, Ayako Mori

CONVERSIONI

• CONSOLE:

[JP] Nintendo Famicom (feb.08, 1986) "Son Son [Modello CAP-SS]"
[JP] Sega Saturn (15 ott. 1998) "Capcom Generation Dai 3 Shou Koko ni Rekkishi Hajimaru [Modello T-1234G]"
[JP] Sony PlayStation (15 ott. 1998) "Capcom Generation Dai 3 Shou Koko ni Rekkishi Hajimaru [Modello SLPS-01649]"
[EU] Sony PlayStation (3 set. 1999) "Capcom Generations 3 - The First Generation [Capcom Generations Disc 3] [Modello SLES-21881]"
[JP] Sony PlayStation (25 mag. 2005) "Capcom Retro Game Collection Vol.3 [Modello SLPM-87362]"
[US] Microsoft XBOX (27 set. 2005) "Capcom Classics Collection"
[US] Sony PS2 (27 set. 2005) "Capcom Classics Collection [Modello SLUS-21316]"
[EU] Microsoft XBOX (18 nov. 2005) "Capcom Classics Collection"
[EU] Sony PS2 (18 nov. 2005) "Capcom Classics Collection [Modello SLES-53661]"
[JP] Sony PS2 (2 mar. 2006) "Capcom Classics Collection [Modello SLPM-66317]"
Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console Arcade] [JP] (7 set. 2010)
Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console Arcade] [US] (dec.6, 2010)
Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console Arcade] [EU] [AU] (dec.17, 2010)
Sony PlayStation 3 [PSN] [JP] (19 feb. 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet [Modello NPJB-00210]"
Sony PlayStation 3 [PSN] [EU] (20 feb. 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] [JP] (20 feb. 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] [EU] (20 feb. 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] [AU] (21 feb. 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet"
Sony PlayStation 3 [PSN] [US] (16 apr. 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet: Game Pack 5 [DLC]"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] [US] (17 apr. 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet: Game Pack 5 [DLC]"
Sony PlayStation 3 [PSN] [US] (21 mag. 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet: All-In-One Pack [DLC]"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] [US] (22 mag. 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet: All-In-One Pack [DLC]"

• PALMARI:

[JP] Sony PSP (7 set. 2006) "Capcom Classics Collection [Modello ULJM-05104]"
[US] Sony PSP (24 ott. 2006) "Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded [Modello ULUS-10134]"
[EU] Sony PSP (10 nov. 2006) "Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded [Modello ULES-00377]"
[AU] Sony PSP (16 nov. 2006) "Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded"

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