Lost In Translation/Windjammers - Flying Disk Game

About The Game
Windjammers - Flying Disk Game, as its name implies, is an overhead-view frisbee-based arcade video game.

Additional Technical Information
Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2

=> [A] Slide and receive/Throw, [B] Lob

Trivia
This game is known in Japan as "Flying Power Disc".

Each character in game has his own native language (i.e. Costa says 'Perfecto').

Windjammers contains 2 mini-games. After the second match, Dog Distance consists in catching the disc as far as possible with your dog. After the fourth match, Flying Disc Bowling allows us to make strikes and spares with the flying disc.

Windjammers is based on the real world flying disc sport called '10-S'. But the inventor of the 10-S has never give permission or signed any agreement to allow Neo Geo or Data East to use 10-S as a model for Windjammers. It has never been compensated for the illegal use of 10-S rules and method of play. 10-S was created in 1977 and copyrighted in 1980.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Fighters History Dynamite & Flying Power Disc - PCCB-00149) on 18/03/1994.

Updates
Curiously, B. Yoo of Korea is replaced with S. Miller of Britain only on the USA Territory dip switch setting. The sprites remain exactly the same, but the voice is changed to that of an Englishman.

Staff

 * Project Leader:
 * Takaaki Inoue


 * Planner:
 * Adachi Pentax


 * Programmers:
 * Takaaki Inoue
 * Wataru
 * Iida


 * Graphic Designers:
 * Nozu Makoto
 * Galactus Mina
 * Y. Urushibara
 * El Santo Inopita
 * Flex Inagaki
 * Hiroshi Tamawashi
 * Tomoyuki Arakawa


 * Bug-Dashi's:
 * Takatoshi Katahata
 * Kagenobu Murata


 * Sound Creators:
 * Atomic & Tom & Koremasa

Ports

 * Consoles :
 * SNK Neo-Geo CD (1995)