Darwin 4081

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Darwin 4081
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher: Sega
Developer:
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up

















Darwin 4081 (ダーウィン4081) is a 1990 shoot-'em-up for the Sega Mega Drive released exclusively in Japan and Korea. It is a port of Data East's 1987 arcade game Super Real Darwin developed and published by Sega under license from Data East.

The game controls like a regular shoot-'em-up: A and C shoot bullets, B 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.