Gouketsuji Ichizoku

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Gouketsuji Ichizoku
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Atlus
Developer: Atlus
Original system(s): Arcade boards
Sound driver: SMPS Z80 (modified)
Peripherals supported: Six Button Control Pad
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code JP 1994-11-18 ¥9,800 (10,094)9,800e T-144013
Non-Sega versions Arcade Super NES

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Gouketsuji Ichizoku (豪血寺一族), called Power Instinct outside Japan, is a 1993 arcade fighting game by Atlus and the first in the long-running series of the same name. Atlus ported it to the Sega Mega Drive in 1994, releasing it exclusively in Japan.

Plans were made to port the game to the US under the name Power Instinct (for release in October 1994 and later January), then February 1995, but were scrapped (however a US SNES version was released under this name).

Gameplay

The game is a conventional fighter. , , and each perform a different variation of each character's base attack, with various combinations possible with the D-pad. Pressing twice makes a double jump (most of 2D and 2.5D fighting games doesn't do that).

Production credits

• Planner: Super K!
• Sub Planner: * Bugta *
• Programmer: D.Dart
• Sub Programmer: ‑Mi.Taka‑
• Designer: T.Kakazu, Akira.I, Sadamasa.O
• Sound: Akihiro Akamatu, Sachiko.K, Shinji Nakaya
• Special Thanks: Hiro, A.C‑Len, Kotobuki, Range, Atlus All Staff
• Presented by: Atlus

Magazine articles

Main article: Gouketsuji Ichizoku/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

US print advert

Print advert in Game Players (US) #0710: "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (1994-xx-xx)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1994-10: "October 1994" (1994-09-08)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1994-11: "November 1994" (1994-10-08)

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1994-12: "December 1994" (1994-11-08)

Artwork

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  North American prototype cover

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 40 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 63 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 58 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 64 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 72 Tricks 16 bit (RU) 69

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Gouketsuji Ichizoku

Mega Drive, JP
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 abe9c415 MD5 18ff626a183c188f789d71f17dd739d5 SHA-1 db6b2046e8b6373f141e8c5db68450f2db377dd8	3MB	1994-09	Cartridge (JP)

References

Gouketsuji Ichizoku games for Sega systems
	Gouketsuji Ichizoku (1994)
	PriCla Daisakusen (1996) | Groove On Fight: Gouketsuji Ichizoku 3 (1997)
	PriCla Daisakusen (1996) | Groove On Fight: Gouketsuji Ichizoku 3 (1997)