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Border Down

System(s): Sega NAOMI GD-ROM, Sega Dreamcast

Publisher:

Sega

G.rev

Developer: G.rev

Peripherals supported:

Dreamcast Arcade Stick, Jump Pack, Dreamcast VGA Box, Visual Memory Unit

Genre: Strategic Side-Scroll Shooting/Senryaku-kei Yoko Scroll Shooting (戦略系横スクロールシューティング)^[1]^[2], Shooting^[3]

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2003	¥?	GDL-0023

JP	2003-09-25^[2]	¥6,800 (7,140)6,800e^[2]	T-46703M
JP (Genteiban)	2003-09-25^[2]	¥8,800 (9,240)8,800e^[2]	T-46702M

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Border Down (ボーダーダウン) is a Sega NAOMI GD-ROM horizontal shoot-'em-up game developed by G.rev, released in 2003. It was ported to the Sega Dreamcast in the same year, with both a standard and Limited Edition released.

Border Down is a pseudo sequel to Taito's Metal Black. The games share certain enemy designs, story elements, gameplay mechanics and staff members.

The Dreamcast version features both original and remixed layouts for each stage. The remixed stages also offer a new soundtrack.

Gameplay

By default, holding shoots straight, tapping creates a homing shot, changes movement speed and fires a concentrated laser beam. Unlike other games, Border Down has no lives system but rather uses it's own "border" system. Each stage has 3 layouts, called green, yellow and red border respectively. When losing a life, the player is forced to go "down" to the next border. Reversing this is only possible by clearing a score goal set for the respective stage. Like most games released during this period, Border Down features detailed score mechanics and an external guide is recommended, although the game reveals some mechanics that are unlocked based on playtime.

History

Release

The game received a reprint on January 17th, 2008.^[4]

Production credits

Director / Game Design: Hiroyuki Maruyama
Main Program: Katsuyuki Fujita
Stage / Player Program: Masakazu Takeda
Enemy Program: Shunsuke Ono
Main Graphic: R.Hideyuki.Katoh
Music Compose / Sound Effect: Yasuhisa Watanabe - Yack. -
Sub Graphic: Masami Kikuchi, Yokeno, Samejima, Ken Minefuji
Character Design: Kadotukasa
English Translation: Yuko Shirahashi
Special Thanks: Kenji Sasaki (Sega Rosso), Jun Taniguchi (Sega Rosso), Takashi Hiraro (Sega Rosso), Kaoru Uno (Sega), Toshiaki Yuasa (Sega), Shinji Hosoe, Norihiro Furukawa
Presented by: G.rev

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Border Down/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

Dreamcast flyer

Physical scans

NAOMI version

NAOMI GD-ROM, JP

Disc

Dreamcast version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Edge (UK)

NTSC-J

60

^[5]

	60
Based on 1 review

Border Down

Dreamcast, JP
Cover
Disc Manual

Dreamcast, JP (Genteiban)
Cover
Spinecard Booklet Audio CD

Technical information

Main article: Border Down/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

1,196,692,896

2003-08-13

GD-ROM (JP)

T-46702M, T-46703M V1.000 (Original, Genteiban)

External links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast, Arcade

References

↑ File:BorderDown DC JP Box Back.jpg
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 http://sega.jp/dc/030902/ (Wayback Machine: 2008-10-29 05:45)
↑ https://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/software_l.html#tab02 (Wayback Machine: 2020-02-01 22:57)
↑ https://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1212848_1124.html (Wayback Machine: 2007-12-29 12:42)
↑ Edge, "December 2003" (UK; 2003-10-27), page 105

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