Lost In Translation/Gunbird 2

About The Game
Gunbird 2 is vertically scrolling shoot-em-up arcade video game featuring five selectable characters who again fight the big army of pirates, but this time to collect elemental potions.

Trivia
Alucard, a selectable character, backwards spells Dracula.

Aine originally appeared in "Samurai Aces" and as a hidden character in "Tengai" as Ayin. Here in Gunbird 2, he has quite a 'different' type of bomb attack :).

Gunbird 2 shares some similarities with the 1975 anime series 'Time Bokan':
 * The flag symbol in Time Bokan is a clear skull and in this game is a 2P like a skull.
 * The thin guy has a very ugly nose also a moustache and teeth like a rabbit (he is the same in the game and the anime).
 * The fat guy has a beard. In this game and in Time Bokan, he has a semi-shaved beard (so with the exception of the beard, the guy is almost the same).
 * The chief is a luxuriant woman (in the anime, she always was topless in the end).
 * In Time Bokan, the bad guys always show a stupid new-robot to defeat the good guys. In the game is the same.

Note : There are 27 different endings!

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to three smileys.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Gunbird 2, Gunbird - SGCD-0003) on 04/12/1998.

Maintenance Code
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 * 5-2-0-4-8 for Maintenace Mode [Stage Select (Loads of cool stuff here), Obj Test, BG TestPlay Status, Stage Status]
 * 5-3-5-7-3 All Data Initialised.
 * 5-3-7-6-5 Sit an AINE Flag1 (Displays 'AINE ?' at test, extra 'explicit' character on random box).
 * 5-1-0-2-4 Sit an AINE Flag2 (Displays 'AINE OK' at test, use AINE by pressing 'Down' on random box).
 * 5-3-1-5-7 AINE Flag Cancelled (Clears AINE from being playable, as default).

Series

 * 1) Gunbird (1994)
 * 2) Gunbird 2 (1998)

Staff

 * Credits:
 * Shin.Nakamura
 * Shiori Saito
 * Hiroshi Yamada
 * Naozumi Yorichika
 * Yoko Tsukagoshi
 * Norikazu Takemori
 * Emi Taniguchi
 * Keizou Fujita
 * Yousuke Iwabuchi
 * Kenichi Fujita
 * Kunihiko Nogomi
 * Katsuya Shikanouchi
 * Katsuhiro Nishida
 * Shinji Nohara
 * Masato Natsumoto


 * Music Composed By:
 * Masaki Izutani

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * Sega Dreamcast (2000)
 * Sony PlayStation 2 (2004, "Gunbird 1&2")