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Spatter, known in Japan as Sanrin San-chan (三輪サンちゃん, lit. Mr. Tricycle), is a Sega System 1 arcade maze puzzle game developed by Sega R&D 1 and manufactured by Sega, and released exclusively to Japanese arcades in December 1984.
A port of the game for the Sega Mega Drive was included in the Mega Drive Mini 2 as a bonus game.
Contents
Gameplay
The object of the game is to collect all the flowers within a maze without hitting other enemies. To achieve this, the player controls "Sanrin Sanchan", a child on a tricycle, who can navigate the maze. Many parts of the maze are separated by fences, which can be used by Sanrin in order to defeat enemies. Jumping over enemies and pushing blocks into them are also options. Occasionally there is a two-dimensional bonus stage where the player must reach the top of the screen in the shortest possible time. Though the gameplay is wildly different, the structure of Splatter is very similar to Flicky.
History
Due to his similar tear-drop shaped heads and doughy eyes, Sanchan has been said to have inspired the design of the Chao characters in Sonic Adventure. However, Yuji Naka himself has confirmed that this is not the case, and any similarities between the two are purely coincidental.
The Mega Drive port of the game was developed by M2 alongside a Mega Drive port of Super Locomotive as a hobby during their free time almost 10 years prior to the development of the Mega Drive Mini 2, for no particular reason other than the staff liking the games enough to do so. Naoki Horii had proposed for both ports to be part of the 3D Classics project, but were both deemed too niche and were thus shelved[3].
Production credits
- Main article: Spatter/Production credits.
System 1 version
| This article needs a list of production credits, either from the game itself, a manual, or other reliable source. |
- Designer: Yoshiki Kawasaki
Mega Drive version
- Director: Naoki Horii
- Program Unit: Renya Iizuka (TAIYO SEISAKUSHO Inc.)
- Special Thanks: Kazuki Kubota, Ryohey Miyaki, Masayuki Fukui, Hiroyuki Sawai
Magazine articles
- Main article: Spatter/Magazine articles.
Digital manuals
Mega Drive Mini 2 US/EU manual
Mega Drive Mini 2 JP manual
Promotional material
Physical scans
System 1 version
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  Instuction card(s) | ||||
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Technical information
- Main article: Spatter/Technical information.
References
- ↑ Sega Arcade History, Enterbrain, page 55
- ↑ https://sega.jp/mdmini2/soft/spatter.html (Wayback Machine: 2022-07-15 13:17)
- ↑ https://www.4gamer.net/games/635/G063531/20220812124/ (Wayback Machine: 2022-08-19 15:06)
- ↑ File:Spatter MD Credits.pdf
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