Author: CraazyGames Team

Introduction Hellfire is a horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up originally conceived by Tatsuya Uemura at Toaplan, developed alongside Truxton as Japanese arcade publisher Taito’s experiment in translating the studio’s vertical-shooter style into a horizontal format, released in 1989 after a famously troubled development cycle. The home version was built separately by NCS Corporation for the…

Introduction Truxton is a vertically scrolling shoot ’em up developed by Toaplan and published by Taito for Japanese and European arcades in October 1988, with Midway handling the North American arcade release. Conceived by Masahiro Yuge around the idea of a memorization-focused scroller, the design team included Naoki Ogiwara, Sanae Nitō, and Yuko Tataka. Sega…

Introduction Gaiares is a horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up developed by Telenet Japan and published by Renovation for the Sega Genesis, released in Japan in December 1990 and in North America the following March. It was primarily the work of just two people, programmer Masayasu Yamamoto and lead designer Kouji Yokota, in what was Yokota’s…

Introduction Thunder Force II is a side-scrolling shoot ’em up developed by Technosoft, first released in Japan in October 1988 for the X68000 home computer before being ported to the Sega Mega Drive a year later. The Mega Drive version launched in Japan, Europe, and the United States, and was one of the six launch…

Introduction Zero Wing is a horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up originally developed by Toaplan and released in Japanese arcades in 1989, headed by development chief Toshiaki Ōta and a team drawn from several earlier Toaplan projects. It was ported to the Sega Mega Drive with a Japanese release in May 1991 and a European release…