Lost In Translation/Quartet
Quartet | |
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Manufacturer | Sega |
Released | 1986 |
Control Method |
8-way Joystick 2 Button(s) |
Main CPU | 68000 (@ 10.000 MHz) Z80 (@ 4.000 MHz) I8751 (@ 8.000 MHz) |
Sound CPU | Mono YM2151 (@ 4.000 MHz) DAC |
Video Details |
Raster (Horizontal) 320 x 224 pixels 60.00 Hz 6,144 Palette colours |
Screens | 1 |
ROM Info | 27 ROMs 726,771 bytes (709.74 KiB) |
MAME ID | quartet · quartet2 · quartetj · quartt2j |
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
Cabinet and Artwork
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)
Soundtrack Releases
Album Name | Catalogue No. | Released | Publisher | Comments |
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Sega Game Music Vol.2 | 28XA-108[1] | 1987-02-25 | Alfa Records | CD version. |
Beep Special Project - Sega Game Music Sono Sheet | N/A[2] | 1986-11-01 | Softbank Publishing | Vinyl version. |
Segacon -The Best of Sega Game Music- Vol.1 | SVWC-7092~4[3] | 2001-10-24 | SME Visual Works | 3 CD version. |
Sega Game Music Vol.2 | ALC-22909[4] | 1987-02-25 | G.M.O. Records / Alfa Records | Cassette version. |
Sega Game Music Vol.2 | ALR-22909[5] | 1987-02-25 | G.M.O. Records / Alfa Records | Vinyl version. |
Sega Game Music Vol.2 | SCDC-00052[6] | 2000-10-18 | Scitron Digital Content Inc. | CD version. |
SDI & Quartet ~SEGA System 16 Collection~ Original Soundtrack | WM-0511[7] | 2005-10-27 | Wave Master | CD version. |
GS SELECTION - GS Club Special Project | N/A[8] | 1988-03-01 | Softbank Publishing | Double vinyl version. |
External Links
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum version of Quartet at the World of Spectrum
References
- ↑ Sega Game Music Vol.2 (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Beep Special Project - Sega Game Music Sono Sheet (Vinyl) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Segacon -The Best of Sega Game Music- Vol.1 (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Sega Game Music Vol.2 (Cassette) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Sega Game Music Vol.2 (Vinyl) at the VGMdb
- ↑ Sega Game Music Vol.2 (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ SDI & Quartet ~SEGA System 16 Collection~ Original Soundtrack (CD) at the VGMdb
- ↑ GS SELECTION - GS Club Special Project (Vinyl) at the VGMdb