Midnight Resistance

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Midnight Resistance
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Data East
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Genre: Action

















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Midnight Resistance (ミッドナイトレジスタンス) is a run and gun action game developed and published by Data East for the arcade and later published by Sega for the Mega Drive. The Sega conversion was given a new soundtrack composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto.

The player assumes the role of Johnny Ford (Daichi Madoka in the Japanese version), a member of a resistance force whose family has been kidnapped by the evil King Crimson. The original arcade version allowed up to two players simultaneously, but the Mega Drive version is strictly single player.

Gameplay

As is usual for a run and gun game, the player controls a commando armed with an automatic weapon which can shoot in eight directions. There are two primary control schemes to choose from (the second scheme has three variants). "Control A" is a basic method of shooting the direction of the D-pad. "Control B" allows the player to continually shoot in a particular direction no matter what the D-pad is doing. This enables more efficient use of your weapon (e.g. shooting backwards while running forwards), however it is considerably trickier to control and requires more practice. The arcade game had a special rotating joystick for independent control of movement and firing, which the Mega Drive lacks. A switches between shooting and not shooting and C jumps.

There is a variety of extra weapons and power-ups which can be purchased at the end of each level with keys picked up from killed enemies. These weapons have limited ammo, though the default gun is unlimited.

Production credits

Staff

Design: Koji Akibayashi
Software: Yuichi Nishimura, Naoya Hanada, Yuji Ohtomo, Tac.H
Hardware: Keiichi Yoshida, Hiroyuki Iwabe, Shingo Mitsui
Graphic: Tomoo Adachi, Kazumi Minagawa, Fujimi Oonishi, Yoshinari Kaihoh
Sound: Azusa Hara (Ahsa), Hiroaki Yoshida (Maro), Fuse, Tatsuya Kiuchi (Kiwchi), Hitomi Komatsu (Hitomi)
Thanks to: Shinji Noda, Masahiko Ujita, Nobuyuki Kawaguchi, Shinya Doi, Yoshiaki Honda, Shunichi E

Mega Drive Staff

Producer: Mizuho Yosida
Director: Yukihiro Kawai, Shigeki Saka
Planner: Takashi Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Satoru Miki
Sub Planner: Takehiko Ishiro
PR: Satoshi Takeuchi, Kouichi Saitoh
Sales: Kazushi Takekoshi
Sound: Hitoshi Sakimoto (YmoH.S), Shougo Sakai (Shyougo Sakai)
Thanks to: Makoto Watanabe, Mitsuo Iwao, Masahiko Nakamura

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
68 №45, p73[1]
84 №0, p22/23/24
86 №115, p44-46[2]
80
92 №28, p51[3]
96 №4
92 №16, p138/139
60 №5, p93
85 №1, p79[4]
84 №8, p82-84[5]
63
80 №11, p30/31[6]
60 №23, p54
47 №18, p66
Sega Mega Drive
77
Based on
14 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
50
[7]
ACE (UK)
68
[1]
Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J
78
[8]
Cool Gamer (RU)
60
[9]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
86
[2]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
80
[10]
Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide (UK)
79
[11]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
58
[12]
GameFan (US) NTSC-U
83
[13]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
88
[3]
Games-X (UK)
96
[14]
Game Informer (US) NTSC-U
58
[15]
Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J
30
[16]
Joystick (FR) NTSC-J
92
[17]
Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) NTSC
60
[18]
Mega Drive Fan (JP) NTSC-J
68
[19]
Mega Play (US) NTSC-U
80
[20]
MegaTech (UK) NTSC
85
[4]
Mean Machines (UK) NTSC
84
[21]
Mean Machines Sega (UK)
85
[22]
Power Play (DE)
63
[23]
Raze (UK) NTSC
80
[6]
Sega Power (UK) NTSC
50
[24]
Sega Pro (UK) NTSC
47
[25]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
74
[26]
Tilt (FR)
70
[27]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
66
[28]
User (GR) NTSC
75
[29]
Video Games (DE)
68
[30]
Sega Mega Drive
71
Based on
29 reviews

Midnight Resistance

Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
Mega Drive, JP
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Cover
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Cart
MidnightResistance MD jp manual.pdf
Manual

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 File:ACE UK 45.pdf, page 73 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:ACE UK 45.pdf_p73" defined multiple times with different content
  2. 2.0 2.1 File:CVG UK 115.pdf, page 44 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 115.pdf_p44" defined multiple times with different content
  3. 3.0 3.1 File:GamePro US 028.pdf, page 55 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 028.pdf_p55" defined multiple times with different content
  4. 4.0 4.1 File:MegaTech UK 01.pdf, page 79 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MegaTech UK 01.pdf_p79" defined multiple times with different content
  5. File:MeanMachines UK 08.pdf, page 82
  6. 6.0 6.1 File:Raze UK 11.pdf, page 30 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Raze UK 11.pdf_p30" defined multiple times with different content
  7. 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 129
  8. Beep! MegaDrive, "April 1991" (JP; 1991-03-08), page 29
  9. Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 125
  10. Electronic Gaming Monthly, "June 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 22
  11. Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 71
  12. Famitsu, "" (JP; 1991-0x-xx), page 1
  13. GameFan, "Volume 1, Issue 7: June 1993" (US; 1993-xx-xx), page 17
  14. Games-X, "24th May 1991" (UK; 1991-05-17), page 36
  15. Game Informer, "September 2001" (US; 2001-0x-xx), page 114
  16. Hippon Super, "April 1991" (JP; 1991-03-04), page 42
  17. Joystick, "Mai 1991" (FR; 1991-0x-xx), page 138
  18. Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 93
  19. Mega Drive Fan, "June 1991" (JP; 1991-05-08), page 91
  20. Mega Play, "May/June 1991" (US; 1991-0x-xx), page 43
  21. Mean Machines, "May 1991" (UK; 1991-05-01), page 22
  22. Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 140
  23. Power Play, "7/91" (DE; 1991-06-12), page 124
  24. Sega Power, "October 1991" (UK; 1991-09-05), page 54
  25. Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 66
  26. Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
  27. Tilt, "Juin 1991" (FR; 1991-0x-xx), page 75
  28. Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 19
  29. User, "Noémvrios 1991" (GR; 1991-1x-xx), page 92
  30. Video Games, "2/91" (DE; 1991-06-07), page 89