Last Survivor

For the unreleased Mega Drive version, see Last Survivor (Mega Drive).

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X Board FM Towns
Last Survivor
System(s): Sega X Board, FM Towns
Publisher: Sega Enterprises, Ltd. CRI
Developer: Sega R&D 1 CRI
Licensor: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up
Number of players: 1-8
Release Date RRP Code JP 1989-01 ¥? ? US 1989-01 $? ? EU 1989-06 €? ? JP 1990-11-16 ¥98009800

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Last Survivor (ラストサバイバー) is an arcade game originally released in 1988 by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. for the Sega X Board arcade hardware.

Last Survivor is one of the first examples of a 3D third-person shooter, and involves players traversing a maze shooting at opponents. It pre-dates experiments by id Software (often credited for pioneering the first-person shooter genre) by two years. It relies on rotary joystick controllers, and had then-revolutionary ray-casting graphics. As an early example of the genre, its gameplay is slower and less fluid than modern third person shooters.

The game was not widely released. Though location tests are known to have occurred, the game was likely too expensive for arcade operators to run, so very few units were sold, and the game was rare enough to prevent a dump from occurring until 2012 (it did not help that the game uses the FD1094 protection chip, meaning even fewer units may have survived to this day).

Production credits

X Board version

• Programmer: Rikiya Nakagawa (DAI)
• EIJ
• MAC
• RYU
• MIY
• KAT
• Artist: Manabu Kusunoki (KUS)
• Programmer: Bad Boy 3284 (JUN) [NOTE: While the other developers' scores are increments of 1000, JUN's score is 3284)
• NAM
• APO

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In-game high score table

The game shares Rikiya Nakagawa and many of the high score initials (DAI, MAC, RYU and MIY) with Thunder Blade.

History

Legacy

Plans were put in place to port the game to the Sega Mega Drive, but this version was cancelled. The game was, however, brought to the FM Towns computer in Japan by CRI, complete with a CD soundtrack.

References to the game appear in the ending sequence to Golden Axe and the title screen to Line of Fire.

Magazine articles

Main article: Last Survivor/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

PDF

X Board JP flyer

Physical scans

X Board version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Sinclair User (UK) 90

	90
Based on 1 review

Last Survivor

X Board, JP

X Board, World

FM Towns version

FM Towns, JP
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