Caliber.50

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Caliber.50

System(s): Sega Mega Drive

Publisher: Mentrix Software

Developer: Seta,

Dragnet

Sound driver: Visco/Kazuo Okabayashi

Genre: Shoot-'em-Up

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	1991		T-58026

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.

Source:

In-game credits

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)^[1]

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

30

^[4]

Beep! MegaDrive (JP)

NTSC-J

58

^[5]

Cool Gamer (RU)

40

^[6]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

58

^[7]

Joystick (FR)

NTSC-U

68

^[8]

MegaTech (UK)

NTSC-U

41

^[2]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-U

63

^[3]

Sega Pro (UK)

NTSC-U

33

^[9]

Tricks 16 bit (RU)

26

^[10]

	46
Based on 9 reviews

Caliber.50

Mega Drive, US
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	44f4fa05
MD5	71a8c01301fe029f01f2f0b17f94d414
SHA-1	a68f3b9350a3a05850c17d157b56de88556cd26a

1MB

1991-11

Cartridge (US)

References

↑ GamePro, "16-bit Video Gaming: February 1992" (US; 1992-xx-xx), page 13
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 File:MegaTech UK 03.pdf, page 30 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MegaTech UK 03.pdf_p30" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 File:SegaPro UK 07.pdf, page 42 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:SegaPro UK 07.pdf_p42" defined multiple times with different content
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 41
↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "December 1991" (JP; 1991-11-08), page 39
↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 46
↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 1992" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 26
↑ Joystick, "Janvier 1992" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 112
↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 64
↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 9

[:File:16BitVideoGaming_US.pdf_p13-1] GamePro, "16-bit Video Gaming: February 1992" (US; 1992-xx-xx), page 13

[:File:MegaTech_UK_03.pdf_p30-2] 2.0 ^2.1 File:MegaTech UK 03.pdf, page 30 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MegaTech UK 03.pdf_p30" defined multiple times with different content

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[4] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 41

[:File:BeepMD_JP_1991-12.pdf_p39-5] Beep! MegaDrive, "December 1991" (JP; 1991-11-08), page 39

[6] Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 46

[:File:EGM_US_030.pdf_p26-7] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "January 1992" (US; 199x-xx-xx), page 26

[:File:Joystick_FR_023.pdf_p112-8] Joystick, "Janvier 1992" (FR; 199x-xx-xx), page 112

[:File:SegaPro_UK_18.pdf_p64-9] Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 64

[10] Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 9

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Caliber.50

From Sega Retro

Contents

Gameplay

Production credits

Promotional material

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References