Caliber.50

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Caliber.50
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Mentrix Software
Developer:
Sound driver: Visco/Kazuo Okabayashi
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up

















Number of players: 1
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Caliber.50 is a top-down run and gun video game originally released in arcades (as Cal.50) before being brought to the Sega Mega Drive in 1991. The Mega Drive version was only released in North America.

The Mega Drive version is severely watered down from the arcade original, not just in terms of graphics and sound, but also gameplay, as the controls need to be mapped to three buttons. This means unlike the arcade original B takes the roll of shooting and throwing grenades, A rotates left and C rotates right. The arcade cabinet used special joysticks which could be spun around to rotate the player. To compensate, there are fewer enemies on screen, and the player is given a life bar.

Production Credits

Producer: Tetsuo Akiyama
Original Works: Seta Ltd.
Story: David Owen Miller
Director: Yasuhisa Itoi, Don Gabacho, R. Lopez
Game Design: Masaharu Ohno
System Programming: Masaharu Ohno
Game Programming: Takanori Kohno
Character and Graphic Design: Kuma San, Do. Kodama, Taketoshi Furuya, Makoto Ida
Music Composition and Arrangement: Kenji Yamasaki, Kazuo Okabayashi
Sound Effects: Masaharu Ohno, Kazuo Okabayashi
Game Box and Manual Design: Creative Juices
Proudly Presented by: Mentrix Software, Inc.

Physical Scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
68 №23, p112
41 №3, p30/31[1]
63 №7, p42[2]
33 №18, p64
Sega Mega Drive
51
Based on
4 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
30
[3]
Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J
58
[4]
Cool Gamer (RU)
40
[5]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
58
[6]
Joystick (FR) NTSC-U
68
[7]
MegaTech (UK) NTSC-U
41
[1]
Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U
63
[2]
Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U
33
[8]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
26
[9]
Sega Mega Drive
46
Based on
9 reviews

Caliber.50

Mega Drive, US
Caliber50 MD US Box.jpg
Cover
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Cart
  1. 1.0 1.1 File:MegaTech UK 03.pdf, page 30 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MegaTech UK 03.pdf_p30" defined multiple times with different content
  2. 2.0 2.1 File:SegaPro UK 07.pdf, page 42 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SegaPro UK 07.pdf_p42" defined multiple times with different content
  3. 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 41
  4. Beep! MegaDrive, "December 1991" (JP; 1991-11-08), page 39
  5. Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 46
  6. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 1992" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 26
  7. Joystick, "Janvier 1992" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 112
  8. Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 64
  9. Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 9