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Tempo

System(s): Sega 32X

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Sega, Red Company

Sound driver: SMPS Z80 (modified)

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	1995-03-24	¥7,8007,800	GM-4009
US	1995	$69.9969.99^[1]	84504
BR	1995-05		152070

ESRB

Sega

Tectoy

Tempo (テンポ) is a 1995 action platforming game developed for the Sega 32X by Sega and Red Company. It was the first game in Red's Tempo series, and was followed by Tempo Jr. and Super Tempo.

In the game, you control a grasshopper named Tempo, who uses the power of music to rid the world of Rythmia from the minions of the music-hating King Dirge Sound on the television show The Major Minor Show. You defeat enemies by either jumping on them, falling on them, or kicking on them, and you can stun them by shooting music notes at them. When in midair, you can glide slowly downward, destroying any enemy that touches your feet. If you find a special DANCE panel, you can summon your butterfly friend Katy to assist in killing enemies and opening up secret paths.

Gameplay

The game plays like a straight platformer. causes Tempo to kick, causes Tempo to jump, and causes Tempo to shoot musical notes from his hands. While in midair, holding will cause Tempo to slowly float downward using his wings. Enemies are mainly killed by hitting them with your feet; kicking an enemy gives you +100 points each time, while jumping on them gives you +10. Shooting music notes will stun enemies (but won't affect the score you get when you destroy them). Two powerups available in the level will cause Tempo to shoot two notes at a time or eight notes in a circle each time; the powerups will fall from Tempo to nearby ground whenever he is hit.

Finding a panel that says "DANCE" on it will cause Katy to appear. Katy will automatically kill enemies if Tempo stuns them with a note. If you find a panel that says "KATY" while Katy is following you, Katy will destroy a nearby obstacle, opening up a secret path. The "DANCE" panel will also kill every enemy on screen at the time.

Health is measured by a health bar at the top left corner of the screen. You lose a certain amount of health with each hit, depending on the enemy or obstacle you hit. Once your health reaches a dangerously low point, Katy will flee. You can regain health by collection music notes scattered around the level. Green, red, and orange notes will refill a certain amount of health; the amount decreases with each respective color. A large yellow music note will refill your health once. Some platforms, such as the electric drums in Hi Fi Performance, will give you music notes of decreasing heath value each time they are jumped on.

In each level there is a set of diamonds blocking an alternate path that will electrocute you when touched. A nearby flower encased in ice will cause the diamonds to turn into music notes when touched.

In each level there is a series of trophy-like platforms similar to the one shown when Tempo starts the level; standing on these will warp you to a different part of the level. These platforms usually come in pairs, so standing on one will always take you to the other.

Levels

The game's stages are divided into three different (literal) levels; hitting up and down on the stage select screen allow you to choose the level to choose the stage to play from, though you must beat all the stages on one level to be able to go to the next.

Ground level

	Indigestion Performance
	Fight your way through the mouth and into the belly of a large monster to fight a boxing glove in a boxing ring.
	Hi Fi Performance
	A digital maze of conveyor belts, electric drum pads, electroshock televisions, and dancing bug monsters in the background frame this gimmick-filled area, ending with a fight with a pair of headphones.
	Downtown Performance
	An urban city filled with basketball-playing enemies, skyscrapers that rise and fall, and lots of city-related gimmicks leading to a fight with a giant shoe.

Second level

	Circus Performance

	Jungle Performance

Top level

	Winter Performance

	Final Performance

Production credits

Designer: Keisuke Abe
Character Animation Design: Keita Komiyama
Producers: Hiroshi Aso, Yukihiko Hojo (RED), Mike Larsen
Assistant Game Designer: Ryoma Kaneko (RED)
Assistant Producer: Bill Person
Lead Programmer: Tsukasa Aoki
Player Programmer: Yuzo Iwai
Enemy Programmer: Naohiro Hirao
32X Programmer: Masanaga Uekusa
Miscellaneous Utilities: Tomonobu Takahashi
Object Graphics: Hiroyuki Hirama
32X Graphics: Masahiro Kumono
Background Graphics: Yuta Ihara, Mototaka Nakatsu
Graphics Assistant: Akira Soejima, Yasuhumi Yamaguchi
Assistant Map Designer: Hito Ii (RED), G. Chatani (RED)
Product Manager: Ami Matsumura-Blaire
Lead Testers: Norihito Sekine, Jeff Junio
Assistant Lead Testers: Lorne Asuncion, Don Carmichael, Mike Herauf
Music: Chamy
Composer: Hiroyuki Hamada
Sound Effects: Masaru Setsumaru
Sound Programmers: Atsumu Miyazawa, Akio Setsumasa
Vocals: Dawn Marie Moore, Jerick De Perio, Bob Timbello (RED)
Choreography: Hiro Kurosu
Choreography (Dance Assistant): Yukiko Tsukamoto
Supervisors: Takashi Shoji, Takeshi Niimura, Ryoichi Hasegawa
Presented by: Sega 1995, Red 1995

Source:

In-game credits

Assistant Lead Tester: Lance Nelson
Testers: Arnold Feener, Ly Ly, Joe Cain, Jeff Hedges, Dana Green, John Amirkhan, Janine Cook, Kerry Kirkham, Phil Co, Peter Clark, Richie Hideshima, Maria Tuzzo, Sean McInnes, Rachael Bristol, Christine Watson, Sean Doidge, Len Jung, Crisi Albertson, Erik Larsen, Robert Buckingham, Amber-Leigh Junier, Sam Saliba, Noah Mackenzie, Atom Ellis, Howard Gipson, Steve Bourdet, Jeff Loney, Ed Riel, Nicole Tatum, Chris Lucich, Tony Lynch, Lloyd Kinoshita, Dan Webber, Steve Rapp, Chris Charles, Charles Artoux, Eric Simonich, and Todd Morgan
Manual: Wendy Dinsmore

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Tempo/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

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Print advert in Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

Artwork

Logo (JP)
Logo (US)
Cover art (JP)
Cover art (US)
Cover art (BR)
US prototype cover

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

1700 igr dlya Sega (RU)

50

^[5]

Electronic Games (1992-1995) (US)

NTSC-U

42

^[6]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

75

^[7]

GameFan (US)

NTSC-U

82

^[8]

Game Players (US)

NTSC-U

47

^[9]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

85

^[1]

MAN!AC (DE)

NTSC-U

60

^[10]

Mega Force (FR)

PAL

69

^[11]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

25

^[12]

Saturn Fan (JP)

NTSC-J

71

^[13]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

58

^[14]

Sega Saturn Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

72

^[15]

Tricks 16 bit (RU)

74

^[16]

Video Games (DE)

NTSC-U

64

^[17]

VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

70

^[3]

VideoGames (US)

NTSC-U

80

^[18]

	64
Based on 16 reviews

Tempo

32X, US
Cover
Cart Manual

32X, JP
Cover
Cart Manual

32X, BR
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	14e5c575
MD5	30989c83d4e4ea3c35a1f3e2620b8465
SHA-1	6673ba83570b4f2c1b4a22415a56594c3cc6c6a9

3MB

Cartridge (JP/US)

?

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

1995-02-07

Page

?

CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

1995-02-06

Page

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CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

1995-02-06

Page

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CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

1995-02-04

Page

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CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

1995-01-26

Page

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CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

1995-01-24

Page

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CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

1995-01-21

Page

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CRC32
MD5
SHA-1

1994-12-29

Page

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 GamePro, "May 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 60
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 84 (86)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 VideoGames, "March 1995" (US; 1995-02-xx), page 83
↑ VideoGames, "March 1995" (US; 1995-02-xx), page 74-75 (74)
↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 307
↑ Electronic Games (1992-1995), "May 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 82
↑ Famitsu, "1995-03-31" (JP; 1995-03-17), page 1
↑ GameFan, "Volume 3, Issue 4: April 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 19
↑ Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 5 May 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 50
↑ MAN!AC, "06/95" (DE; 1995-05-10), page 52
↑ Mega Force, "Mai 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 72
↑ Next Generation, "May 1995" (US; 1995-04-18), page 92
↑ Saturn Fan, "1995 June" (JP; 1995-05-08), page 40
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "April 1995" (JP; 1995-03-08), page 132
↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 86
↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 199
↑ Video Games, "6/95" (DE; 1995-05-17), page 90
↑ VideoGames, "May 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 74

Tempo
	Main page \| Maps \| Hidden content \| Magazine articles \| Reception \| Region coding \| Technical information Prototypes: 1994-12-29 \| 1995-01-21 \| 01-24 \| 01-26 \| 02-04 \| 02-06 B \| 02-06 \| 02-07

Tempo series of games
Tempo (1995) \| Tempo Jr. (1995) \| Super Tempo (1998)

[:File:GamePro_US_070.pdf_p60-1] 1.0 ^1.1 GamePro, "May 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 60

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p86_.2884.29-2] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 84 (86)

[:File:VideoGames_US_74.pdf_p83-3] 3.0 ^3.1 VideoGames, "March 1995" (US; 1995-02-xx), page 83

[:File:VideoGames_US_74.pdf_p74_.2874-75.29-4] VideoGames, "March 1995" (US; 1995-02-xx), page 74-75 (74)

[5] 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 307

[:File:ElectronicGames2_US_32.pdf_p82-6] Electronic Games (1992-1995), "May 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 82

[7] Famitsu, "1995-03-31" (JP; 1995-03-17), page 1

[:File:GameFan_US_0304.pdf_p19-8] GameFan, "Volume 3, Issue 4: April 1995" (US; 1995-xx-xx), page 19

[:File:GamePlayers_US_0805.pdf_p50-9] Game Players, "Vol. 8 No. 5 May 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 50

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_1995-06.pdf_p52-10] MAN!AC, "06/95" (DE; 1995-05-10), page 52

[:File:MegaForce_FR_39.pdf_p72-11] Mega Force, "Mai 1995" (FR; 1995-0x-xx), page 72

[:File:NextGeneration_US_05.pdf_p92-12] Next Generation, "May 1995" (US; 1995-04-18), page 92

[:File:SaturnFan_JP_1995-06_19950615.pdf_p40-13] Saturn Fan, "1995 June" (JP; 1995-05-08), page 40

[:File:SSM_JP_19950401_1995-04.pdf_p132-14] Sega Saturn Magazine, "April 1995" (JP; 1995-03-08), page 132

[:File:SSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf_p86-15] Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 86

[16] Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 199

[:File:VideoGames_DE_1995-06.pdf_p90-17] Video Games, "6/95" (DE; 1995-05-17), page 90

[:File:VideoGames_US_76.pdf_p74-18] VideoGames, "May 1995" (US; 1995-0x-xx), page 74

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Difference between revisions of "Tempo"

From Sega Retro

Revision as of 16:06, 5 April 2020

Contents

Gameplay

Levels

Ground level

Second level

Top level

Production credits

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Artwork

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

References