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Gaiares

System(s): Sega Mega Drive

Publisher: Renovation Game (JP), Renovation Products (US)

Developer: Telenet Japan

Genre: Shoot-'em-up

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1990-12-26	¥8,4008,400	T-49013
US	1991-02^[1]	$69.9569.95^[2]	49066

Gaiares (ガイアレス) is a 1990 shoot-'em-up by Telenet Japan released for the Sega Mega Drive in the Japan and US only, published by Renovation. The US version also came with a poster. It was one of the first games to use 8 Megabit instead of 4 Megabit cartridges, a big portion of that is used for cutscenes.

Story

In the year 3000, humans have polluted Earth to such an extent that Gulfer, a group of space pirates, plan to use the pollution to fuel weapons of mass destruction. The United Star Cluster of Leezaluth feel the only way to stop this from happening is to blow the Sun up, but allows the humans one chance to save themselves: by sending Dan Dare (Diaz in Japan) in a special ship to stop Gulfer.

Aiding Dan in a special sub-ship is the TOZ System, run by Leezaluth emissary Alexis, which can steal powers from the space pirates's own ships. Should you succeed, Leezaluth will give the humans a new planet to inhabit.

Gameplay

changes movement speed. shoots. sends Alexis out straight ahead to take the weapon of the nearest enemy. You can keep taking the same type of weapon, which will increase that weapon's strength, until the type has been maxed out. Furthermore small capsules can be picked up to wipe out all enemies on screen or to install a shield that can absorb multiple enemy hits.

Some stages feature branching paths that can be selected by flying high or low on the screen.

Production credits

Game Design: M.Yamamoto, K.Yokota
Character Design: T.Iwata, K.Yokota
Graphic Design: K.Yokota, T.Iwata, Y.Kuzumoto
Program: M.Yamamoto
Sound: S.Ogawa (Business Support Co., Ltd.)
Special Thanks: K.Fukushima, Y.Fukushima, J.Fukushima, T.Fukushima, Y.Abe, T.Kinoshita, E.Kikuchi, T.Miura, T.Matsuzawa, A.Suzuki, Y.Shimizu, K.Ohta, Y.Yamauchi, T.Umezu
(C) Telenet Japan 1990
(C) Renovation Products 1990

Source:

In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Gaiares/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Gaiares MD US PrintAdvert 2.jpg

US print advert 2

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #20: "March 1991" (1991-xx-xx)
also published in:

GamePro (US) #20: "March 1991" (1991-xx-xx)^[3]
Game Players (US) #0304: "Vol. 3 No. 4 April 1991" (1991-0x-xx)^[4]
Game Players (US) #0305: "Vol. 3 No. 5 May 1991" (1991-0x-xx)^[5]
Sega Visions (US) #4: "April/May 1991" (1991-xx-xx)^[6]

Print advert in Mega Play (US) #4: "May/June 1991" (1991-0x-xx)
also published in:

Game Players (US) #0307: "Vol. 3 No. 7 July 1991" (1991-0x-xx)^[7]

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

30

^[9]

Beep! MegaDrive (JP)

NTSC-J

68

^[10]

Computer + Video Giochi (IT)

91

^[11]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

88

^[1]

Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)

50

^[12]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

60

^[13]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

100

^[2]

Hippon Super (JP)

NTSC-J

60

^[14]

Joystick (FR)

NTSC-J

79

^[15]

Mega Drive Fan (JP)

NTSC-J

72

^[16]

Mega Play (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[17]

MegaTech (UK)

83

^[18]

MegaTech (UK)

PAL

84

^[8]

Mean Machines Sega (UK)

84

^[19]

Player One (FR)

89

^[20]

Power Play (DE)

78

^[21]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC

84

^[22]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

69

^[23]

Tricks 16 bit (RU)

74

^[24]

User (GR)

NTSC

70

^[25]

Video Games (DE)

76

^[26]

	75
Based on 21 reviews

Gaiares

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	5d8bf68b
MD5	47e140ae1e70984e6cd638e6e8f8485f
SHA-1	f62e8be872dc116c4cc331c50ae63a63f013eb58

1MB

1990-12

Cartridge (US/JP)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File:EGM US 020.pdf, page 18 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:EGM US 020.pdf_p18" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 File:GamePro US 020.pdf, page 78 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 020.pdf_p78" defined multiple times with different content
↑ GamePro, "March 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 77
↑ Game Players, "Vol. 3 No. 4 April 1991" (US; 1991-0x-xx), page 33
↑ Game Players, "Vol. 3 No. 5 May 1991" (US; 1991-0x-xx), page 25
↑ Sega Visions, "April/May 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 33
↑ Game Players, "Vol. 3 No. 7 July 1991" (US; 1991-0x-xx), page 21
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 File:MegaTech UK 02.pdf, page 40 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MegaTech UK 02.pdf_p40" defined multiple times with different content
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 83
↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "January 1991" (JP; 1990-12-08), page 36
↑ Computer + Video Giochi, "Aprile 1991" (IT; 1991-xx-xx), page 46
↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 316
↑ Famitsu, "" (JP; 199x-xx-xx), page 1
↑ Hippon Super, "January 1991" (JP; 1990-12-04), page 43
↑ Joystick, "Mars 1991" (FR; 1991-0x-xx), page 124
↑ Mega Drive Fan, "March 1991" (JP; 1991-02-08), page 99
↑ Mega Play, "March/April 1991" (US; 1991-04-xx), page 42
↑ MegaTech, "Xmas 1991" (UK; 1991-12-06), page 78
↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 138
↑ Player One, "Décembre 1991" (FR; 1991-xx-xx), page 60
↑ Power Play, "4/91" (DE; 1991-03-15), page 128
↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 65
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 86
↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 15
↑ User, "Mártios 1992" (GR; 1992-0x-xx), page 83
↑ Video Games, "1/91" (DE; 1991-03-27), page 84

[:File:EGM_US_020.pdf_p18-1] 1.0 ^1.1 File:EGM US 020.pdf, page 18 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:EGM US 020.pdf_p18" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:GamePro_US_020.pdf_p78-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 File:GamePro US 020.pdf, page 78 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 020.pdf_p78" defined multiple times with different content

[:File:GamePro_US_020.pdf_p77-3] GamePro, "March 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 77

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0304.pdf_p33-4] Game Players, "Vol. 3 No. 4 April 1991" (US; 1991-0x-xx), page 33

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0305.pdf_p25-5] Game Players, "Vol. 3 No. 5 May 1991" (US; 1991-0x-xx), page 25

[:File:SegaVisions_US_04.pdf_p33-6] Sega Visions, "April/May 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 33

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0307.pdf_p21-7] Game Players, "Vol. 3 No. 7 July 1991" (US; 1991-0x-xx), page 21

[:File:MegaTech_UK_02.pdf_p40-8] 8.0 ^8.1 File:MegaTech UK 02.pdf, page 40 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MegaTech UK 02.pdf_p40" defined multiple times with different content

[9] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 83

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1991-01.pdf_p36-10] Beep! MegaDrive, "January 1991" (JP; 1990-12-08), page 36

[:File:CVG_IT_04.pdf_p46-11] Computer + Video Giochi, "Aprile 1991" (IT; 1991-xx-xx), page 46

[12] Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 316

[13] Famitsu, "" (JP; 199x-xx-xx), page 1

[14] Hippon Super, "January 1991" (JP; 1990-12-04), page 43

[:File:Joystick_FR_014.pdf_p124-15] Joystick, "Mars 1991" (FR; 1991-0x-xx), page 124

[:File:Megadrive_Fan_1991-03.pdf_p99-16] Mega Drive Fan, "March 1991" (JP; 1991-02-08), page 99

[:File:MegaPlay_US_03.pdf_p42-17] Mega Play, "March/April 1991" (US; 1991-04-xx), page 42

[:File:MegaTech_UK_01.pdf_p78-18] MegaTech, "Xmas 1991" (UK; 1991-12-06), page 78

[:File:MeanMachinesSega01UK.pdf_p138-19] Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 138

[:File:PlayerOne_FR_015.pdf_p60-20] Player One, "Décembre 1991" (FR; 1991-xx-xx), page 60

[:File:PowerPlay_DE_1991-04.pdf_p128-21] Power Play, "4/91" (DE; 1991-03-15), page 128

[:File:SegaPro_UK_18.pdf_p65-22] Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 65

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p86-23] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 86

[24] Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 15

[:File:User_GR_22.pdf_p83-25] User, "Mártios 1992" (GR; 1992-0x-xx), page 83

[:File:VideoGames_DE_1991-01.pdf_p84-26] Video Games, "1/91" (DE; 1991-03-27), page 84

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Difference between revisions of "Gaiares"

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Contents

Story

Gameplay

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References