Zero Wing
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System(s): Sega Mega Drive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: Toaplan (JP), Sega, Retro-Bit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer: Toaplan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Original system(s): Toaplan System 1[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sound driver: Cube | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre: Shooting[2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zero Wing (ゼロウイング) is a Sega Mega Drive horizontal shoot-'em-up game developed by Toaplan. Published in Japan by Toaplan in May 1991, it was later published in Europe by Sega in July 1992, and was republished worldwide by Retro-Bit in October 2020. The game is an arcade of the developer's 1989 arcade game Zero Wing, and one of few Mega Drive ports developed by Toaplan themselves.
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Gameplay
and fire the player's weapon. While the game has an autofire option, a higher firing rate can be achieved by manually tapping the button. fires a suction beam that will pull certain enemies towards the player ship for use as a shield, and can which be later launched forward to destroy other enemies.
Like other Toaplan games, Zero Wing defaults to the Easy difficulty setting.
Power-ups
Some enemies will drop power-ups when destroyed; the first power-up dropped per life will always be options to further assist the player ship.
- Red: Spread shot
- Blue: Laser shot
- Green: Homing shot
- Orb: Bomb (fired with )
- Speed Up: Increases ship speed
Levels
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Legrous | |
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Aquese | |
Submarine Tunnel | |
Barracade Zone | |
Bellon | |
Gerbarra | |
Endings
The Japanese version of Zero Wing features 32 hidden endings.[8] The first three endings can be acquired by beating each of the respective three difficulty settings. The remainder must be seen by beating the game again; upon every successful completion, the game will advance to the next ending. By reaching the final ending, the code for Zero Wing's debug menu is revealed.[9]
While many of the endings consist of out-of-character discussion between the villain CATS and the actual player, the will eventually devolve into what appears to be a developer rambling about his favorite foods, singing lyrics from folk songs, and making bad puns.
Legacy
The infamously poor translation of Zero Wing's English releases has seen the game become the star of community parody. A line in the game's introduction, All your base are belong to us, was heavily featured in a fan music video for the song Invasion of the Gabber Robots by The Laziest Men on Mars (the song itself being a cover of Zero Wing's Open Your Eyes.) This video, compressed and heavily shared in the early days of the internet, gave rise to one of the first modern memes.
Production credits
- 68k Side: T.Ota, H.Furukawa
- Z80 Side: T.Uemura
- Graphics: S.Nakaoka, N.Ogiwara, M.Hayashi, S.Nito
- Music: T.Uemura, M.Yuge, T.Tomizawa
- © Toaplan 1991.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Zero Wing/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Mega Drive Fan (JP) #14: "March 1991" (1991-02-08)[10]
also published in:
- Mega Drive Fan (JP) #16: "May 1991" (1991-04-08)[11]
also published in:
- Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1991-08: "August 1991" (1991-07-08)[12]
Collector's Edition (Retro-Bit)
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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References
- ↑ https://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=966&page=1#19118
- ↑ File:Zerowing md jp cover.jpg
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software_l.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-02 23:21)
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "May 1991" (JP; 1991-04-08), page 16
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Sega Force, "July 1992" (UK; 1992-06-xx), page 72
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://store.strictlylimitedgames.com/products/toaplan-shooters-collectors-edition-genesis-mega-drive-preorder (Wayback Machine: 2021-05-31 21:12)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 File:TSCE Toaplan Press Release.pdf, page 2
- ↑ https://legendsoflocalization.com/zero-wing-had-32-weird-secret-endings-in-japan/
- ↑ https://legendsoflocalization.com/zero-wing-had-32-weird-secret-endings-in-japan/#ending-35
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "March 1991" (JP; 1991-02-08), page 99
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "May 1991" (JP; 1991-04-08), page 42
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "August 1991" (JP; 1991-07-08), page 16
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 349
- ↑ Aktueller Software Markt, "November 1991" (DE; 1991-10-11), page 139
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "May 1991" (JP; 1991-04-08), page 27
- ↑ Console XS, "June/July 1992" (UK; 1992-04-23), page 137
- ↑ Computer & Video Games, "August 1991" (UK; 1991-07-15), page 60
- ↑ Entsiklopediya luchshikh igr Sega. Vypusk 7, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 291
- ↑ Mean Machines: The Essential Sega Guide, "" (UK; 1993-11-18), page 118
- ↑ Famitsu, "1991-xx-xx" (JP; 1991-06-14), page 19
- ↑ Games-X, "21st-26th June 1991" (UK; 1991-06-21), page 36
- ↑ Hippon Super, "May 1991" (JP; 1991-04-04), page 42
- ↑ Hobby Consolas, "Agosto 1992" (ES; 1992-0x-xx), page 48
- ↑ Joypad, "Juin 1992" (FR; 1992-05-1x), page 158
- ↑ Joystick, "Juillet/Août 1991" (FR; 1991-0x-xx), page 182
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Advanced Gaming, "January 1993" (UK; 199x-xx-xx), page 95
- ↑ Mega Drive Fan, "August 1991" (JP; 1991-07-08), page 123
- ↑ Mega, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-20), page 21
- ↑ Mega Force, "Mai 1992" (FR; 1992-05-05), page 76
- ↑ MegaTech, "May 1992" (UK; 1992-04-20), page 32
- ↑ MegaTech, "June 1993" (UK; 1993-05-20), page 93
- ↑ Mean Machines, "July 1991" (UK; 1991-06-29), page 74
- ↑ Mean Machines Sega, "October 1992" (UK; 1992-09-xx), page 143
- ↑ Player One, "Mai 1992" (FR; 1992-05-10), page 70
- ↑ Play Time, "(8/9)/92" (DE; 1992-07-08), page 94
- ↑ Sega Power, "October 1991" (UK; 1991-09-05), page 55
- ↑ Sega Power, "August 1992" (UK; 1992-07-02), page 34
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1992" (UK; 1992-03-19), page 41
- ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 68
- ↑ Sega Opisaniy i sekretov, "14000 Opisaniy i sekretov" (RU; 2003-03-11), page 236
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
- ↑ Super Gaming, "Fall 1991" (US; 1991-xx-xx), page 8
- ↑ Supersonic, "Mai/Juin 1992" (FR; 1992-xx-xx), page 6
- ↑ Tilt, "Septembre 1991" (FR; 1991-09-xx), page 53
- ↑ Video Games, "7/92" (DE; 1992-06-24), page 46
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