G Vector

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G Vector
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Soft Office
Developer: Soft Office
Peripherals supported: 3D Control Pad
Genre: Shooting
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1997-10-16 ¥5,8005,800 T-30603G

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G Vector (ジーベクター) is an on-the-rails shoot-'em-up game released exclusively for the Sega Saturn in Japan. It is best described as a fusion of Space Harrier (or Panzer Dragoon) and Layer Section.

Gameplay

Pressing fires your main gun, while holding autofires. The targeting reticle will mark anything it passes over, and larger objects can be targeted multiple times, up to a maximum of eight targets. Press to fire lasers at all locked-on targets. You gain additional points for each target that's destroyed; a full volley of eight destroyed targets results in a total of 51,000 bonus points. Bosses will frequently have smaller targets nearby with which to gain big points.

The game is surprisingly cruel with resources. You get a single life with three hit points, and there are no recovery items in sight. There are continues; of course, using a continue throws your score away, and disables the ending. You normally have three continues, but can gain more with the following code: press on the title screen.

There is a total of six stages. As stages are completed in the "Standard Game", they can be accessed in the "Score Attack" for practice, where you're also invulnerable. Stage progress, scores, and the continue code are automatically saved to the Saturn's internal memory.

Production credits

Staff

• Executive Producer: Hiroshi Watanabe
• Team Hinatabokko
• Direction&Program: Kazuya Hara
• Main Progam: Hiroki Ueno
• Graphic: Kiminori Okamoto
• Sound: Naoki Sakane
• Music: Hiroyuki Nakanishi
• Marketing: Takafumi Yamashita, Takuya Miura, Kuniyuki Kishi, Mika Fukaishi
• Package Design: Kouichi Fujimoto
• Special Thanks: H.Okuno, K.Murase, A.Yamamoto, Y.Miyazaki, S.W A.T K.K

Magazine articles

Main article: G Vector/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1997-36: "1997-36 (1997-10-24)" (1997-10-09)

Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1997-37: "1997-37 (1997-10-31)" (1997-10-17)

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 50 MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-J 45 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 44 Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J 58 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 47 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 61

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G Vector

Saturn, JP
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1	412,912,416		CD-ROM(JP)	T-30603G V1.005