Alien Soldier

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Alien Soldier
System(s): Sega Mega Drive, Virtual Console, Steam
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Sound driver: SMPS 68k/Treasure
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
JP 		¥6,8006,800 G-4130
Sega Mega Drive
EU 		1186-50
Sega Mega Drive
GR
Sega Mega Drive
AU 		FALI00SMC
Wii Virtual Console
JP ▼ 		600pts600
Wii Virtual Console
US ▼ 		800pts800
Wii Virtual Console
EU ▼ 		800pts800
CERO
Missing Parameter!

Alien Soldier (エイリアンソルジャー) is a Mega Drive game developed by Treasure and published by Sega in 1995. It was one of the few Mega Drive games to be released in Japan and Europe, but not North America (however it was made available briefly through the Sega Channel service), and is now considered an extremely rare collectors item. It has since been re-released for the Wii's Virtual Console service, as well as being released as part of the Sega Ages Treasure Box disc for the PlayStation 2.

In the same year an an album was released.

Versions

  • This is one of the few fully PAL optimized games. While running at 50Hz like other PAL releases of that time, gameplay speed and music speed have been adjusted. Forcing the game to run at 60Hz makes it play too fast.
  • Some minor changes to the European version of the game were made, like the removal of the catchphrase "VISUALSHOCK! SPEEDSHOCK! SOUNDSHOCK! NOW IS THE TIME TO THE 68000 HEART ON FIRE!"

Production credits

  • Main Programmer: Viva! Choco Monkey DX
  • Programmer: K.Fujita, M.Maegawa, Fukuryu
  • Sound Programmer: M.Yaida
  • Character Design: K.Shindoh
  • Background Arts: H.Iuchi 8
  • Background Design: Tsunehisa
  • Guest Designer: T.Shiga
  • Music by: N.Hanzawa
  • Sound Effects: S.Murata
  • Producer: Viva! Choco Monkey DX
  • Supervisor: M.Maegawa
  • Computer Designed by: Treasure
  • Presented by: ©Sega 1995
Source:
In-game credits

Promotional material

  • 1995 05 - Software Mega Drive.jpg

    ES print advert

Digital manuals

  • Steam manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Alien Soldier/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
60 №6, p96-99[4]
88 №42, p131[5]
80 №163, p52-57[1]
82 №31, p54/55
81 №41
68
74
85 №33, p80/81[2]
94 №52, p82-84[6]
85 №68, p34/35
90 №46, p66-69
Sega Mega Drive
 81
Based on
11 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
50
[7]
CD Consoles (FR) PAL
60
[4]
Consoles + (FR)
88
[5]
Cool Gamer (RU)
20
[8]
Computer & Video Games (UK)
80
[1]
Digitiser (UK)
82
[9]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1 (RU)
50
[10]
Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 9 (RU)
80
[11]
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
60
[12]
GamesMaster (UK) PAL
82
[13]
Joypad (FR) PAL
81
[14]
LeveL (CZ)
65
[15]
MAN!AC (DE) PAL
68
[16]
Mega Fun (DE) PAL
74
[17]
Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL
85
[2]
Player One (FR)
94
[6]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
74
[18]
Sega Power (UK) PAL
85
[19]
Sega Power (GR)
78
[20]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
75
[21]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
87
[22]
Todo Sega (ES)
90
[23]
Tricks (RU)
78
[24]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
84
[25]
Sega Mega Drive
 74
Based on
24 reviews

Alien Soldier

Mega Drive, EU
Aliensoldier md eu cover.jpg
Cover
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Cart
Alien Soldier MD EU Manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, JP
Aliensoldier md jp cover.jpg
Cover
AlienSoldier MD JP CartTop.jpg
Alien Soldier MD JP Cart.jpg
Cart
Alien Soldier MD JP Manual.pdf
Manual
Mega Drive, AU
AlienSoldier MD AU cover.jpg
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 90fa1539
MD5 fd04c4616bb559e646937effdd343a09
SHA-1 8f6eb584ed9487b8504fbc21d86783f58e6c9cd6
2MB 1995-02 Cartridge (JP)
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 0496e06c
MD5 32aeea27591d0cb88dc571baa738804e
SHA-1 fa141778bd6540775194d77318f27d2a934e1ac1
2MB 1995-02 Cartridge (EU)

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 File:CVG UK 163.pdf, page 52 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 163.pdf_p52" defined multiple times with different content
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 File:MeanMachinesSega33UK.pdf, page 80 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:MeanMachinesSega33UK.pdf_p80" defined multiple times with different content
  3. ↑ File:GamesWorld DE 0708.pdf, page 79
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 File:CDConsoles FR 06.pdf, page 96 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CDConsoles FR 06.pdf_p96" defined multiple times with different content
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 File:ConsolesPlus FR 042.pdf, page 131 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:ConsolesPlus FR 042.pdf_p131" defined multiple times with different content
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 File:PlayerOne FR 052.pdf, page 82 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:PlayerOne FR 052.pdf_p82" defined multiple times with different content
  7. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 17
  8. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 13
  9. ↑ Digitiser (UK) (1995-05-23)
  10. ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 287
  11. ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 9, "" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 19
  12. ↑ Famitsu, "1995-03-03" (JP; 1995-02-17), page 41
  13. ↑ GamesMaster, "July 1995" (UK; 1995-06-08), page 54
  14. ↑ Joypad, "Avril 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 82
  15. ↑ LeveL, "Září 1995" (CZ; 1995-09-18), page 40
  16. ↑ MAN!AC, "05/95" (DE; 1995-04-12), page 50
  17. ↑ Mega Fun, "05/95" (DE; 1995-04-19), page 72
  18. ↑ Saturn Fan, "1995 May" (JP; 1995-04-07), page 47
  19. ↑ Sega Power, "July 1995" (UK; 1995-05-18), page 34
  20. ↑ Sega Power, "Dekémvrios 1997-Ianouários 1998" (GR; 1998-xx-xx), page 49
  21. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "March 1995" (JP; 1995-02-08), page 130
  22. ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
  23. ↑ Todo Sega, "Junio 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 32
  24. ↑ Tricks, "5/95" (RU; 1995-xx-xx), page 27
  25. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 7
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