Lost In Translation/Starblade

About The Game
Starblade is a 3-D, filled-vector, arcade video game shoot-em-up.

The game features 2 separate missions; the first is to destroy the planet 'Red Eye' while the second is to wipe out the enemy fleet and their leader. The game's sit-down cabinet featured a seat that vibrated whenever the player was hit, either by incoming fire or by enemy objects such as ships, asteroids etc. The yoke joystick - which had a fire button situated at the top of the stick, underneath where the player's thumb sits - was very similar in appearance and feel to that used in Atari's 1983 wire-frame classic, "Star Wars".

Trivia
Starblade was a very obvious influence on both the visual appearance and gameplay of the superb Nintendo Super NES game, 'Star Fox' - written in the UK by Argonaut Software.

Victor Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Starblade & Galaxian3 - Project Dragon : Namco Game Sound Express Vol.06 - VICL-15009) on 21/03/1992.

Series

 * 1) Starblade (1991)
 * 2) Starblade 2 - Starblade : Operation Blue Planet (Developed in 2002, but unpublished)

Staff

 * Chief Director:
 * H. Nakatani


 * Assistant Director:
 * K. Kobayashi


 * Programmers:
 * Norimasa Matsuura
 * Y. Saitoh
 * Y. Ohmori


 * Music & Sound Effects:
 * Shinji Hosoe


 * Visual Director:
 * W. Yanagawa


 * Visual Designers:
 * N. Kumagai
 * M. Tejima
 * M. Kimura


 * Industrial Designer:
 * N. Yoshimatsu


 * Mechanical Designers:
 * S. Kanebako
 * H. Igarashi
 * T. Wakayama
 * J. Uchida


 * Electrical Designers:
 * M. Yamada
 * O. Morita
 * M. Ito


 * Producers:
 * K. Sawano
 * M. Yamada

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * Sega Mega-CD (1994)
 * Panasonic 3DO (1994)
 * Sony PlayStation (1995, "Starblade Alpha")
 * Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, as a bonus game in "Tekken 5")