Caliber.50

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Caliber.50
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Mentrix Software
Developer: Dragnet
Original system(s): Arcade boards
Developer(s) of original games: Seta
Sound driver: Visco/Kazuo Okabayashi
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 1991 T-58026
Non-Sega versions Arcade

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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, although Visco had plans at one stage to release a Japanese version.

Gameplay

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 takes the roll of shooting and throwing grenades, rotates left and 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.

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In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Caliber.50/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #27: "October 1991" (1991-xx-xx)
also published in:

• GamePro (US) #16bit: "16-bit Video Gaming: February 1992" (1992-xx-xx)

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Joystick (FR) 68 MegaTech (UK) 41 Sega Pro (UK) 63 Sega Pro (UK) 33 №18, p64 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) 58

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Based on 5 reviews

Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 30 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 58 Cool Gamer (RU) 40 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 58 Joystick (FR) NTSC-U 68 MegaTech (UK) NTSC-U 41 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U 63 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U 33 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 26

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Based on 9 reviews

Caliber.50

Mega Drive, US
Cover
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 44f4fa05 MD5 71a8c01301fe029f01f2f0b17f94d414 SHA-1 a68f3b9350a3a05850c17d157b56de88556cd26a	1MB	1991-11	Cartridge (US)