Uchuu Senkan Gomora

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Uchuu Senkan Gomora
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: UPL
Developer: Aisystem Tokyo
Original system(s): Arcade boards
Developer(s) of original games: UPL
Sound driver: YMOIMO (Cube/Masaru Suzuki)
Genre: Shooting
Number of players: 1-2
Release Date RRP Code JP 1991-09-30 ¥7,500 (7,725)7,500e T-42023
Non-Sega versions Arcade

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Uchuu Senkan Gomora (宇宙戦艦ゴモラ) is a Sega Mega Drive horizontal shoot-'em-up game developed by Aisystem Tokyo and published by UPL. A port of the titular 1990 UPL arcade game Uchuu Senkan Gomora, it was released exclusively in Japan in September 1991.

Gameplay

Unlike most shooting games, you control a heavy battleship instead of a small efficient glider, resulting in slow paced gameplay unusual for the genre. shoots your weapons; the laser weapon from your main ship can be charged by holding . allows you to take control of a beam shot. While is held down, the D-pad will move a box-shaped target on the screen and will shoot beam shots toward the target. This beam is multiple times stronger than the regular shot and can hit any position on the screen, for the cost of losing controly over the ship. is listed as "PAD MODE", when this is activated, the score counter turns gray to indicate itÄs activated. In this mode, pressing -not holding- switches between moving the ship and the box shaped target. In each level, you can get orbs which give you either subships that shoot weapons diagonally or certain powerups (such as an automatically moving beam target or doubling the size of your ship).

Pressing  START  at the title screen gives you a configuration menu where you can, among other things, choose to play one of two 2-player modes. Normal 2-player mode is 2-player cooperative (two ships on screen at once), while another option allows the second player to take control of the beam laser while you take control of the main ship.

History

While the arcade version was released overseas (in the US under license from American Sammy under the name Bio-Ship Paladin), the MD version was only released in Japan — however an American title screen is present in the ROM and displayable if the region is set to US, which may mean a US release was planned (this is unconfirmed).

UPL would go bankrupt shortly after publishing Uchuu Senkan Gomora (the later Task Force Harrier EX was ported and published by Treco.)

Versions

Considering the hardware it was ported to and small rom sizes of that time, the game can be considered a faithful port. All stages and bosses are present, the ending is identical. The game displays an unusual high amount of objects on screen. The Megadrive version's main differences are:

• The game has a hard coded autofire limit, making autofire generally slower.
• Bosses appear after a short phase (3-5 seconds) that allows one background layer to scroll out, not instantly.
• All Graphics are a tad vertically compressed, likely to compensate for the arcade versions wide screen type resolution.
• Some different colors for bosses, enemies and backgrounds. The reason is that the game uses 3 fixed 16 color palettes for Player ships, objects and all enemies, only the background color palette is swapped each stage.
• More slowdown, although the arcade version isn't slowdown free either
• Additional scrolling background layers in some stages.
• Background music in the bio station and submarine base have been swapped for an unknown reason.

Production credits

• Program Design: Mutaka Ai, Daikoku Hisaya
• Character Design: Masayuki Suzuki, Shigeki Maeda, Ryuji Watamabe
• Background Design: Aiko Hirosawa, Ryuji Watanabe
• Sound Effect: Masato Takahashi
• Director: Tsutomu Fuzisawa
• Special Thanks: Toshio Arai, Isamu Yanagida, ...and UPL All Staff
• Copyright ©1991 by: UPL

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In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Uchuu Senkan Gomora/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Beep! MegaDrive (JP) #1991-06: "June 1991" (1991-05-08)

Physical scans

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Publication Version Score 1700 igr dlya Sega (RU) 40 Aktueller Software Markt (DE) 37 Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J 68 Consoles + (FR) 75 Console XS (UK) NTSC-J 71 Computer & Video Games (UK) 86 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 50 Games-X (UK) 30 Hippon Super (JP) NTSC-J 40 Joypad (FR) NTSC-J 56 Joystick (FR) NTSC-J 70 Mega Drive Fan (JP) NTSC-J 59 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-J 71 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-J 51 Sega Opisaniy i sekretov (RU) 55 Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 70

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Uchuu Senkan Gomora

Mega Drive, JP
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 c511e8d2 MD5 2bd7578ddcbd3931e76f706cc0d72429 SHA-1 4e1d77cc1bf081e42abfd1c489fbd0073f0236af		1991-07	Cartridge (JP)