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System(s): Sega Mega Drive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Tengen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Polygames | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Original system(s): Arcade boards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer(s) of original games: Atari Games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Simulation[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Steel Talons (スティールタロンズ) is a helicopter combat game originally released in arcades by Atari Games. It was later brought to the Sega Mega Drive.
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Gameplay
Steel Talons is an early 3D shoot-'em-up, in which players pilot a helicopter tasked with destroying a certain number of enemies on the map (combat missions) or enemy helicopters (head to head). As an arcade game (as opposed to contemporaries such as LHX Attack Chopper) the controls are greatly simplifed, and while a "real heli flight" option exists to bring more lifelike helicopter physics into play, by default the player can pick a height and expect to always remain at a fixed position above the ground.
fires missiles, fires the cannon, and adjusts the height in Z. All of the weapons in the game automatically lock on to enemies if in short range.
Versions
Steel Talons was designed for much more powerful hardware than any home system available in 1991/1992, and so compromises were made for every platform the game was ported to; the Mega Drive, Super NES and Atari Lynx (with an Atari Falcon030 version appearing later in 1995). No home versions match the arcade game's performance, screen resolution or polygon count.
While the Mega Drive renders a true 3D world (versus the occaisonal simple polygon on a 2D gradient seen on the SNES), its version of Steel Talons was critically panned at release for its very low frame rates, often to the point of being unplayable. Conversely the Lynx version, designed for a much weaker handheld system, is a more accurate port with a smoother frame rate, and the Super NES, while looking very different to the arcade, also avoids many of the huge performance dips.
In complicated scenes, it is not uncommon to see the Mega Drive version drop below 5FPS.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Steel Talons/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
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Physical scans
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References
- ↑ http://sega.jp/fb/segahard/md/soft_licensee.html (Wayback Machine)
- ↑ ', "" (; ), page 83
- ↑ ', "November/December 1992" (; 1992-xx-xx), page 99
- ↑ ', "November/December 1992" (; 1992-xx-xx), page 68
- ↑ ', "November/December 1992" (; 1992-xx-xx), page 34
- ↑ ', "November/December 1992" (; 1992-xx-xx), page 65
- ↑ ', "July 1993" (; 1993-06-08), page 20 (22)
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85 (87)
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 52/53 (52)
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 74-76 (74)
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 82/83 (82)
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 289
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 22
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 68
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 96
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 39
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 9
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 50
- ↑ GamesMaster (UK) "Series 2, episode 13" (1992-12-24, 24:00) (+6:05)
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 44
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 67
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 52
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 12
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 104
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 35
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 66
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 74
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 109
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 54
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 36
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 67
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 40
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 82
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 87
- ↑ Sonic the Comic, "12th June 1993" (UK; 1993-06-12), page 12
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 179
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 104
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