Underplayed Gems

Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS (1992)

Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS cover
Developer
T&E Soft
Platforms
Game Boy
Genres
Shooter

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How it feels

A Japanese vertical shmup that cleverly uses Game Boy's screen ghosting to fake parallax and transparency effects.

shoot-em-upsci-fiarcade-stylefast-pacedretrotechnical

About

A vertical scrolling shooter/shmup released only in Japan. It's notable for using the DMG Game Boy's passive-matrix image retention (ghosting) to simulate transparency and multiple layers of parallax.

Screenshots

Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS screenshot 1Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS screenshot 2Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS screenshot 3

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