Shooter

Introduction Insector X began life as an arcade shooter developed by Hot-B under contract for Taito, released to arcades in 1989 with a deliberately comical tone that Taito had requested. After buying the rights back from Taito the following year, Hot-B built its own Mega Drive version, published in Japan under its own name and…

Introduction Sub-Terrania is a multidirectional shooter developed by the Danish studio Zyrinx and published by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1994, notable as the debut project of a team formed from members of two Amiga demoscene groups, The Crionics and The Silents. Set at a future deep-space mining colony overrun by an unknown alien…

Introduction Zero Tolerance is a first-person shooter developed by Technopop, the first independent studio to develop for the Sega Genesis, and published by Accolade exclusively for the console in 1994. It runs on a pseudo-3D, sprite-scaling ray-casting engine built entirely on stock Genesis hardware, letting players control Captain S. Ishii or fellow soldier Cyber-Cop, two…

Introduction Galaxy Force II is a sprite-scaling rail shooter developed by Sega R&D1, an expanded update of 1988’s arcade original Galaxy Force built on Sega’s sprite-scaling Y Board hardware, adding two new levels and other refinements shortly after that first release. The Mega Drive/Genesis version arrived in 1990 as part of a wide multi-platform rollout…

Introduction Super Thunder Blade is a rail shooter developed and published by Sega, produced by Yuji Naka with a soundtrack by Sachio Ogawa, and released as one of three Mega Drive launch titles in Japan on October 29, 1988, alongside Space Harrier II and Altered Beast, before reaching North America in August 1989 as one…

Introduction Space Harrier II is a rail shooter developed by Sega and designed by Yu Suzuki, released as one of the two launch titles for the Mega Drive in Japan on October 29, 1988, alongside Super Thunder Blade, before reaching North America the following year as one of the Genesis’s six US launch games. It…

Introduction Air Diver is a first-person combat flight simulator developed by Copya System and published by Asmik in Japan in March 1990, with a North American release by Seismic that April, for the Sega Genesis. Players pilot the fictional F-119D stealth fighter from an in-cockpit view, battling waves of enemy aircraft and ground targets across…

Introduction Panorama Cotton is a 1994 rail shooter video game developed by Success and published by Sunsoft for the Sega Mega Drive. The game was released exclusively in Japan on August 12, 1994. Panorama Cotton is the third entry in the Cotton series. Panorama Cotton is a pseudo-3D scrolling shooter reminiscent of Space Harrier, set…