Lost In Translation/Night Striker
Night Striker | |
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Manufacturer | Taito America Corporation |
Released | 1989 |
Control Method |
8-way Joystick Analog joystick 2 Button(s) |
Main CPU | (2x) 68000 (@ 12.000 MHz) 68000 (@ 12.000 MHz) |
Sound CPU | Stereo YM2610 (@ 8.000 MHz) |
Video Details |
Raster (Horizontal) 320 x 240 pixels 60.00 Hz 4,096 Palette colours |
Screens | 1 |
ROM Info | 29 ROMs 8,400,384 bytes (8.01 MiB) |
MAME ID | nightstr |
About The Game
Night Striker is a 3-D arcade video game shoot-em-up rendered with fast moving, sprite-scaled graphics.
Players must guide an armoured hover car through a number of scrolling levels - destroying waves of enemies in the process - in an attempt to rescue a scientist who has been kidnapped by a terrorist organization. A large guardian awaits players at the end of each level, with each one taking several hits to destroy.
Instead of having a set number of lives, the player's vehicle is equipped with a shield that depletes whenever the player is hit by enemy fire or has collisions with either enemies or scenery. The player's shields are recharged at the end of every level.
Night Striker takes its influences from many landmark games of the sprite scaling genre, all of which are Sega releases. The basic shoot-em-up gameplay is similar in style to both 1985's "Space Harrier" and 1987's "Thunder Blade". Some of the game's levels resemble those of 1988's "Galaxy Force II" as well as "Thunder Blade", while the game's level structure - a 'pyramid' of levels that allows players to chose their own route through the game with the use of end-of-level forked roads - is borrowed from the 1986 classic, "Out Run".
Trivia
Released in October 1989.
The eerie and ambient game soundtrack is by Zuntata, an internal team of composers within Taito responsible for other great soundtracks including Darius Gaiden, Gunlock, G-Darius.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Darius II : G.S.M. Taito 4 - PCCB-00010-12) on 21/11/1989.
A new version of the soundtrack was released in 1998 and is sprinkled with anecdotes (spoken in Japanese) about the game (Z-Replica Vol. 2 - Urban Trail Night Striker - ZTTL-0025).
Zuntata Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Zuntata History L'ab-normal 1st - ZTTL-0038) on 01/04/1999.
Updates
The US version is slightly different, it has the 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' screen.
Staff
- Producer
- Tohru Sugawara
- Director
- Kenshi Kaito
- Software
- Tohru Sugawara
- Hideki Hashimoto
- Toshiaki Tsukano
- Tmr-Win
- Iromust
- Takashi Kitabayashi
- Character Designers
- Kohzoh Igarashi
- Minori Ishino
- Takako Kojima
- Kenshi Kaito
- Hardware
- Toshiyuki Sanada
- Electric
- Tomio Takeda
- Mechanic
- Tohru Yamamoto
- Tohru Hirata
- Tomio Suzuki
- Nobuyuki Iwasaki
- Designers
- Shinobu Sekiguchi
- Akio Nomura
- Sound & Music Composed By
- Masahiko Takaki (Zuntata)
- Executive Producer
- Keisuke Hasegawa
Cabinet and Artwork
Ports
- Consoles
- Sega Mega CD (1993)
- Sony PlayStation (1995)
- Sega Saturn (1996, "Night Striker S")
- Sony PlayStation 2 (2007, "Taito Memories II Vol. 2")
Soundtrack Releases
Album Name | Catalogue No. | Released | Publisher | Comments |
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Darius II -G.S.M. TAITO 4- | PCCB-00010[1] | 1989-11-21 | Pony Canyon, Inc. | 2 CD version. |
Zuntata Live '90 -G.S.M. Taito- | PCCB-00045[2] | 1990-10-21 | Pony Canyon/Scitron | CD version. |
Zuntata Live 1997 -Cineteque Rave- (Visual File) | ZTTV-0001[3] | 1997-11-21 | Zuntata Records | Released on VHS. |
Z-REPLICA Vol.2 URBAN TRAIL NIGHT STRIKER | ZTTL-0025[4] | 1998-07-23 | Zuntata Records | CD version. |
ZUNTATA LIVE 1998 "güten Talk" from the earth ~AUDIO FILE~ | ZTTL-0031[5] | 1998-10-21 | Zuntata Records | 2 CD version. |
ZUNTATA LIVE 1998 "güten Talk" from the earth ~VISUAL FILE~ | N/A[6] | 1998-11-10 | Zuntata Records | Released on VHS. |
ZUNTATA HISTORY L'ab-normal 1st | ZTTL-0038[7] | 1999-04-01 | Zuntata Records | CD version. |
Zuntata Night | ZTTL-0047[8] | 1999-10-21 | Zuntata Records | CD version. |
THE VERY BEST OF Mar. GAME MUSIC II ~Dawn Chronicle~ | ZTTL-0053[9] | 2000-06-21 | Zuntata Records | CD version. |
Night Striker Complete Album | PCCB-00119[10] | 1993-05-21 | Pony Canyon/Scitron | CD version. |
Night Striker | PCCB-00140[11] | 1993-11-19 | Pony Canyon Inc. | CD version. |
Game Sound Legend Arrange Series - Speed & Wind | SCDC-00375[12] | 2004-11-17 | Scitron Digital Content | CD version. |
Night Striker & Syvalion Perfect Box | SRIN-1031~5[13] | 2007-12-29 | Super Sweep Records | 2 CD version. |
Game Music Festival Live, Summer '93 ~OFFICIAL BOOTLEG CASSETTE~ | N/A[14] | 1993-01-01 | Pony Canyon/Scitron | Cassette version. |
Gaesen Oh - Scitron Game Music Mega Mix Vol.1 | KGCD-0001[15] | 1994-01-01 | Pony Canyon/Scitron | CD version. |
Super Mega Drive Fan - Mega-CD Super Music Collection Volume 1 | TIM-SMD01[16] | 1993-05-01 | Tokuma Shoten Publishing | CD version. |
NIGHT STRIKER -ARCADE SOUND TRACKS- | ZTTL-9010[17] | 2008-07-02 | Zuntata Records | Digital download only. |
TAITO GAME MUSIC | ZTTL-1003[18] | 2004-09-24 | Zuntata Records | CD version. |
Violin de Hiitemita ep2 ~ Maou no Gyakushuu / Scream no Hito | SRIN-1063[19] | 2009-09-02 | SuperSweep | CD version. |
References
- ↑ Darius II -G.S.M. TAITO 4- (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Zuntata Live '90 -G.S.M. Taito- (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Zuntata Live 1997 -Cineteque Rave- (Visual File) (VHS) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Z-REPLICA Vol.2 URBAN TRAIL NIGHT STRIKER (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ ZUNTATA LIVE 1998 "güten Talk" from the earth ~AUDIO FILE~ (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ ZUNTATA LIVE 1998 "güten Talk" from the earth ~VISUAL FILE~ (VHS) at the VGMdb
- ↑ ZUNTATA HISTORY L'ab-normal 1st (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Zuntata Night (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ THE VERY BEST OF Mar. GAME MUSIC II ~Dawn Chronicle~ (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Night Striker Complete Album (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Night Striker (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Game Sound Legend Arrange Series - Speed & Wind (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Night Striker & Syvalion Perfect Box (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Game Music Festival Live, Summer '93 ~OFFICIAL BOOTLEG CASSETTE~ (Cassette) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Gaesen Oh - Scitron Game Music Mega Mix Vol.1 (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Super Mega Drive Fan - Mega-CD Super Music Collection Volume 1 (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ NIGHT STRIKER -ARCADE SOUND TRACKS- (Digital Download) at the VGMdb
- ↑ TAITO GAME MUSIC (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Violin de Hiitemita ep2 ~ Maou no Gyakushuu / Scream no Hito (CD) at the VGMdb