Caliber.50

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Caliber.50
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Mentrix Software
Developer:
Original system(s): Arcade boards
Developer(s) of original games: Seta
Sound driver: Visco/Kazuo Okabayashi
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
US 		T-58026
Non-Sega versions
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Caliber.50 is a top-down run-and-gun video game originally released in arcades (as Cal.50) before being brought to the Sega Mega Drive in 1991. The Mega Drive version was only released in North America, although Visco had plans at one stage to release a Japanese version.

Story

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Introduction

Captain Addis of the United States Army must rescue his fellow soldiers twenty years after he failed to retrieve his men during the Vietnam War. He must now re-navigate through the Ho Chi Minh trail in order to liberate his captured comrades-in-arms.

Gameplay

The game is an overhead run-and-gun. Players control a United States Army pilot, Captain Addis, who was taken as a prisoner of war in Vietnam in 1972. Addis must escape the prison compound by battling enemy soldiers with guns and grenades. Addis moves in any direction with the D-Pad. He shoots his gun by holding B and throws a grenade when B is released. The gun has unlimited ammunition but grenades are limited.

There are two control schemes for aiming the weapon. Using Type A, Addis rotates left with A and rotates right with C. Using Type B, Addis always fires in the direction that he is facing.

Addis' health is indicated by a health bar in the top-left corner of the screen. The health bar has multiple levels that correspond to the strength of his weapon. A blue health bar is the lowest level and the weakest weapon, a red health bar is the second level and a stronger weapon, and a yellow health bar is the highest level and a flamethrower. He loses a life if he depletes his blue health bar but revives in place if he has extra lives remaining; the game ends if he runs out of lives.

The game has three difficulty levels (Easy, Normal, and Hard), and the player can set the amount of lives initially available.

Items

Items are found in crates or dropped by enemies.

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 Crate
Destroy to release items.
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 Shells
Restore a small amount of health.
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 Power Up
Restores a partial amount of health.
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 Hand Grenades
Gives Addis 10 hand grenades.
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 Ultra Hand Grenades
Upgrades Addis' grenades to more powerful Ultra Hand Grenades.
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Grants Addis temporary invulnerability.
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Increases the range of Addis' weapon.
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Destroys all on-screen enemies.
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Gives Addis the maximum strength weapon and 99 hand grenades.

Missions

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Stage 1

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Stage 2

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Stage 3

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Stage 4

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Stage 5

Versions

The Mega Drive version is severely watered down from the arcade original, not just in terms of graphics and sound, but also gameplay, as the controls need to be mapped to three buttons. The arcade cabinet used special joysticks which could be spun around to rotate the player. To compensate, there are fewer enemies on screen, and the player is given a life bar.

Production credits

Source:
In-game credits
Caliber.50 MD credits.pdf
[3]


Magazine articles

Main article: Caliber.50/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #27: "October 1991" (1991-xx-xx)
also published in:
  • GamePro (US) #16bit: "16-bit Video Gaming: February 1992" (1992-xx-xx)
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Physical scans

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1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)
30
[5]
Beep! MegaDrive (JP) NTSC-J
58
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Cool Gamer (RU)
40
[7]
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
58
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Joystick (FR) NTSC-U
68
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MegaTech (UK) NTSC-U
41
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Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U
63
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[11]
Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U
33
[12]
Tricks 16 bit (RU)
26
[13]
Sega Mega Drive
 46
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Caliber.50

Mega Drive, US
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Cover
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Cart
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PCB

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
✔
CRC32 44f4fa05
MD5 71a8c01301fe029f01f2f0b17f94d414
SHA-1 a68f3b9350a3a05850c17d157b56de88556cd26a
1MB 1991-11 Cartridge (US)

References

  1. ↑ ', "" (; ), page 26
  2. ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video/c/-IGGiuWZUz0/m/4ptF8N4PpX8J
  3. ↑ File:Caliber.50 MD credits.pdf
  4. ↑ ', "October 1991" (; 1991-xx-xx), page 13
  5. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 41
  6. ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 39
  7. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 46
  8. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 26
  9. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 112
  10. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 30
  11. ↑ Cool Gamer, "9" (RU; 2002-10-13), page 42
  12. ↑ Sega Pro, "April 1993" (UK; 1993-03-11), page 64
  13. ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 9


Caliber.50

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Main page | Comparisons | Maps | Magazine articles | Reception | Region coding | Technical information | Bootlegs


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