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Soukyuu Guren-tai (1996)

Soukyuu Guren-tai cover
Developer
Raizing
Publisher
Data East, Eighting, Electronic Arts Victor
Platforms
Arcade, Sega Saturn, PlayStation
Genres
Arcade

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How it feels

A brisk, screen-filling vertical shooter that demands quick reflexes and steady focus as enemies and bullets stream across an unusually wide arcade display.

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About

Soukyuu Guren-tai is a vertically scrolling shooter game released by Raizing in 1996 for Arcades, with a Saturn port released in 1997. The game is unusual in that, rather than using a 3:4 aspect ratio to better suit the vertically-oriented gameplay, it uses a horizontal monitor (4:3) in the style of Neo Geo vertical shooters as well as the later Radiant Silvergun and Giga Wing. There is an English version of the game titled Terra Diver, but it was never officially released.

Screenshots

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