Lost In Translation/Quartet

About The Game
Quartet is an arcade video game platform shoot-em-up hybrid for one to four players, selected from either Joe (yellow), Mary (red), Lee (blue) and Edgar (green).

The action takes place over a number of horizontally scrolling levels, the bulk of which consist of straightforward platform action. On some levels, however, there are jet packs for the players to collect, and the game-play's emphasis switched to that of a standard, sideways scrolling shoot-em-up.

The object of the game is to destroy an army of robots that have taken over an Earth colony satellite station. Each level has a boss character that must be destroyed. Upon its death it releases a door key that must be used to exit the level. Weapon and character power-ups can be collected to aid players in their task.

Due to its potential for four-player shoot-em-up game-play, Quartet's game-play feels vaguely similar to (though by no means as accomplished as) Atari's 1985 classic, "Gauntlet".

Trivia
Released in April 1986.

Alfa Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Sega Game Music Vol.2 - 28XA-108) on 25/02/1987.

Updates
Quartet 2 is not a sequel, it's an update :
 * You can change characters on the fly during the game when you continue, while in the original Quartet, the characters were affixed to the specific colour joystick areas.
 * You can have just two players at the same time instead of four.

Staff

 * Music Composed By:
 * Katsuhiro Hayashi (Funkey K.H)


 * From Hiscore Table:
 * YAS
 * IDA
 * KEN
 * MIY
 * AGU
 * CHI
 * OOO
 * TOM
 * KAW
 * Reiko Kodama (REI)
 * KAW
 * TOH
 * Katsuhiro Hayashi (HAY)
 * HON
 * UCH
 * JOE
 * LEE


 * EDG
 * MAR

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * Sega Master System (1987)
 * Sony PlayStation 2 ("Sega AGES 2500 Series Vol. 21 SDI & Quartett - SEGA System 16 Collection Vol.1", 2005)


 * Computers :
 * Commodore C64 (1987)
 * Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1987)
 * Amstrad CPC (1987)


 * Others :
 * Mobile phones (2002)