Gaiares
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: Renovation Game (JP), Renovation Products (US) | |||||||||||||||
Developer: Telenet Japan | |||||||||||||||
Genre: Shoot-'em-up | |||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||
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Gaiares (ガイアレス) is a 1990 shoot-'em-up by Telenet Japan released for the Sega Mega Drive in the Japan and US only, published by Renovation. The US version also came with a poster. It was one of the first games to use 8 Megabit instead of 4 Megabit cartridges, a big portion of that is used for cutscenes.
During development it was known as Aztion (アズシオン).[3]
A European release was planned by Ubisoft[4] but it did not materialise.
Contents
Story
In the year 3000, humans have polluted Earth to such an extent that Gulfer, a group of space pirates, plan to use the pollution to fuel weapons of mass destruction. The United Star Cluster of Leezaluth feel the only way to stop this from happening is to blow the Sun up, but allows the humans one chance to save themselves: by sending Dan Dare (Diaz in Japan) in a special ship to stop Gulfer.
Aiding Dan in a special sub-ship is the TOZ System, run by Leezaluth emissary Alexis, which can steal powers from the space pirates's own ships. Should you succeed, Leezaluth will give the humans a new planet to inhabit.
Gameplay
changes movement speed. shoots. sends Alexis out straight ahead to take the weapon of the nearest enemy. You can keep taking the same type of weapon, which will increase that weapon's strength, until the type has been maxed out. Furthermore small capsules can be picked up to wipe out all enemies on screen or to install a shield that can absorb multiple enemy hits.
Some stages feature branching paths that can be selected by flying high or low on the screen.
Production credits
- Game Design: M.Yamamoto, K.Yokota
- Character Design: T.Iwata, K.Yokota
- Graphic Design: K.Yokota, T.Iwata, Y.Kuzumoto
- Program: M.Yamamoto
- Sound: S.Ogawa (Business Support Co., Ltd.)
- Special Thanks: K.Fukushima, Y.Fukushima, J.Fukushima, T.Fukushima, Y.Abe, T.Kinoshita, E.Kikuchi, T.Miura, T.Matsuzawa, A.Suzuki, Y.Shimizu, K.Ohta, Y.Yamauchi, T.Umezu
- (C) Telenet Japan 1990
- (C) Renovation Products 1990
Magazine articles
- Main article: Gaiares/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
- Main article: Gaiares/Promotional material.
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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1MB | 1990-12 | Cartridge (US/JP) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Electronic Gaming Monthly, "March 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 18
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 GamePro, "March 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 78
- ↑ File:Mdfan_JP_1990-08.pdf, page 79
- ↑ Sega Force, "January 1992" (UK; 1991-12-12), page 10
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "January 1991" (JP; 1990-12-08), page 34 (36)
- ↑ File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf, page 86
- ↑ GamePro, "March 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 62 (78)
- ↑ MegaTech, "February 1992" (UK; 1992-01-20), page 40-43 (40)
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 83
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "January 1991" (JP; 1990-12-08), page 36
- ↑ Computer + Video Giochi, "Aprile 1991" (IT; 1991-xx-xx), page 46
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 1, "" (RU; 1999-xx-xx), page 316
- ↑ Famitsu, "" (JP; 199x-xx-xx), page 1
- ↑ Hippon Super, "January 1991" (JP; 1990-12-04), page 43
- ↑ Joystick, "Mars 1991" (FR; 1991-0x-xx), page 124
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "March 1991" (JP; 1991-02-08), page 99
- ↑ Mega Play, "March/April 1991" (US; 1991-04-xx), page 42
- ↑ MegaTech, "Xmas 1991" (UK; 1991-12-06), page 78
- ↑ MegaTech, "February 1992" (UK; 1992-01-20), page 40
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 138
- ↑ Player One, "Décembre 1991" (FR; 1991-xx-xx), page 60
- ↑ Power Play, "4/91" (DE; 1991-03-15), page 128
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 65
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 86
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 15
- ↑ User, "Mártios 1992" (GR; 1992-0x-xx), page 83
- ↑ Video Games, "1/91" (DE; 1991-03-27), page 84
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