Darwin 4081

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Darwin 4081
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega (Japan), Samsung (South Korea)
Developer: Sega
Original system(s): Arcade boards
Developer(s) of original games: Data East
Genre: Shooting
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code JP 1990-04-07 ¥6,0006,000 G-4033 KR 1990 GM4029JG
Non-Sega versions Arcade

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Darwin 4081 (ダーウィン４０８１) is a vertical shoot-'em-up for the Sega Mega Drive published by Sega in 1990 exclusively in Japan and South Korea. It's based on a 1987 arcade shoot-'em-up Super Real Darwin by Data East.

Gameplay

The game controls like a regular shoot-'em-up: and shoot bullets, drops bombs; there is rapidfire. However, unlike regular shoot-'em-ups where weapons are upgraded through powerups, your ship "evolves" to survive situations and get past obstacles.

Evolution occurs with the Evol (small faces with an E on them) and B-Evol (darker Evols). Each pickup adds a new evolution state to the list. After a particular amount of time, one evolution wears off and the next evolution is chosen. The DNA powerup does provide a more permanent weapon upgrade, but will merely just make the existing weapons stronger. You can hold up to nine DNA powerups.

Production credits

• Game Plan: S-Furukawa
• Game Arrange: M-Watanabe
• Game Program: K-Sasamoto, Y-Sasaki, O-Nakayama
• Game Sound: S-Hamada, H-Matumoto
• Game Graphic: R-Maeda, O-Kuroda
• Special Thanks: H-Nakamoto, P-Nakamura
• Game Produce: S-Hawai
• Presented by: Sega

Magazine articles

Main article: Darwin 4081/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1990-05: "May 1990" (1990-04-07)

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 60 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 65 Complete Guide to Consoles (UK) 74 Complete Guide to Consoles (UK) 79 The Complete Guide to Sega (UK) 74 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 68 Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming (UK) NTSC-J 64 Mega Drive Fan (JP) NTSC-J 64 MegaTech (UK) NTSC-J 74 Mean Machines Sega (UK) 74 Power Play (DE) 58 Sega Power (UK) NTSC-J 75 Sega Pro (UK) 91 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-J 83 Sega Opisaniy i sekretov (RU) 58 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 60 Tilt (FR) 20

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Darwin 4081

Mega Drive, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

Mega Drive, KR
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 7a33b0cb MD5 70b6289a3857f411361ef8cfd4bba4bf SHA-1 e9decc48451aba62d949a7710e466e1d041a2210	512kB	1989-01	Cartridge (JP/KR)
?	CRC32 MD5 SHA-1		1990-02-21					Page