G Vector

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G Vector
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Soft Office
Developer:
Peripherals supported: 3D Control Pad
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Saturn
JP
¥5,8005,800 T-30603G

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G Vector (ジーベクター) is an on-the-rails shoot-'em-up game released exclusively for the Sega Saturn in Japan. It is best described as a fusion of Space Harrier (or Panzer Dragoon) and Layer Section.

Gameplay

Pressing A fires your main gun, while holding C autofires. The targeting reticle will mark anything it passes over, and larger objects can be targeted multiple times, up to a maximum of eight targets. Press B to fire lasers at all locked-on targets. You gain additional points for each target that's destroyed; a full volley of eight destroyed targets results in a total of 51,000 bonus points. Bosses will frequently have smaller targets nearby with which to gain big points.

The game is surprisingly cruel with resources. You get a single life with three hit points, and there are no recovery items in sight. There are continues; of course, using a continue throws your score away, and disables the ending. You normally have three continues, but can gain more with the following code: press Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right A B C on the title screen.

There is a total of six stages. As stages are completed in the "Standard Game", they can be accessed in the "Score Attack" for practice, where you're also invulnerable. Stage progress, scores, and the continue code are automatically saved to the Saturn's internal memory.

Production credits

Staff
  • Executive Producer: Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Team Hinatabokko
  • Direction&Program: Kazuya Hara
  • Main Progam: Hiroki Ueno
  • Graphic: Kiminori Okamoto
  • Sound: Naoki Sakane
  • Music: Hiroyuki Nakanishi
  • Marketing: Takafumi Yamashita, Takuya Miura, Kuniyuki Kishi, Mika Fukaishi
  • Package Design: Kouichi Fujimoto
  • Special Thanks: H.Okuno, K.Murase, A.Yamamoto, Y.Miyazaki, S.W A.T K.K


Magazine articles

Main article: G Vector/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1997-36: "1997-36 (1997-10-24)" (1997-10-09)
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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) #1997-37: "1997-37 (1997-10-31)" (1997-10-17)
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Physical scans

Sega Retro Average 
Publication Score Source
50 №462, p32
45 [1]
47 [2]
61 [3]
Sega Saturn
51
Based on
4 reviews
Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J
50
[4]
MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-J
45
[1]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
44
[5]
Saturn Fan (JP) NTSC-J
58
[6]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
47
[7]
Sega Saturn Magazine (JP) NTSC-J
61
[8]
Sega Saturn
51
Based on
6 reviews

G Vector

Saturn, JP
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Cover
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Disc

Technical information

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Saturn
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
412,912,416 CD-ROM(JP) T-30603G V1.005

References