Heavy Unit: Mega Drive Special
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| Heavy Unit: Mega Drive Special | |||||
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive | |||||
| Publisher: Toho | |||||
Developer: Kaneko  | |||||
| Genre: Shoot-'em-Up | |||||
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Heavy Unit: Mega Drive Special (ヘビーユニット メガドライブスペシャル) is a 1990 Sega Mega Drive shoot-'em-up developed by Kaneko and published by Toho exclusively in Japan. It is a modified port of Kaneko's 1988 arcade shoot-'em-up Heavy Unit. Heavy Unit: Mega Drive Special features the same amount of stages as its arcade counterpart, but with a reduced amount of colors and graphical detail (its 4Mb ROM made an arcade true port impossible). Enemy placement and behaviour has been partially modified, and the game runs in a lower screen resolution. Stage 2 has now an underwater theme and an added raster scroll effect. Unlike the arcade release, the game also doesn't loop after finishing it.
Story
Humans have developed an artificial planet, "Le Tau," which is being attacked by aliens, and only the Heavy Unit transforming ship can stop them.
Gameplay
and 
shoot; rapidfire is an option. 
drops a bomb, which you have an unlimited supply of but must collect as a powerup. Among the various powerups is one, labeled T, that transforms your ship into a mecha and back, which plays identically, except its bombs will home in on enemies. The ship has a spreadshot, while the mecha is power oriented.
There is a strange option called "control", it effects whether the ship/mecha has inertia or not ("organize" means inertia is activated).
Trivia
- The big head monster in stage 1 can be exploited for infinite score. This is exclusive to the Sega Mega Drive port, as the arcade version auto scrolls past the boss. The game lacks a score table
- The Password option is used to enable cheats
Promotional Material
JP print advert
Physical Scans
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