Lost In Translation/Truxton

About The Game
Truxton is a vertically scrolling arcade video game shoot-em-up featuring 8 levels with non-stop action and 5 bosses.

Taking place somewhere in the near future of space travel, an alien armada is invading the player's home planet aboard 5 gargantuan asteroids. After surviving an attack on the player's cargo barge, players board and pilot one remaining fighter and challenge the aliens in a desperate attempt to quell the alien invasion and divert their asteroid fortresses in the process.

Trivia
Licensed to Taito for manufacture ans distribution and to Romstar for US distribution.

This game is known in Japan as 'Tatsujin' (translates from Japanese as 'Master').

Polystar released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Tatsujin : Toaplan Game Music Scene One - H24X-10005) on 25/06/1989.

Hidden Functions
If the 'Invulnerability dip switch' is enabled, you are invulnerable but you may also 'Pause' the game with P2 Start and restart with P1 Start.

Series

 * 1) Truxton (1988)
 * 2) Truxton II (1992)

Staff

 * Music Composed By:
 * Masahiro Yuge

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * Sega Mega Drive (1989)
 * NEC PC-Engine (1992)
 * FM Towns Marty ("Tatsujin")