Lost In Translation/Quartet

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Quartet
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

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  Quartet arcade cabinet.

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  Quartet flyer.

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  Back of the Quartet flyer.

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  Alternate Quartet flyer.

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  Quartet 2 flyer.

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
Sega Game Music Vol.2	28XA-108	1987-02-25	Alfa Records	CD version.
Beep Special Project - Sega Game Music Sono Sheet	N/A	1986-11-01	Softbank Publishing	Vinyl version.
Segacon -The Best of Sega Game Music- Vol.1	SVWC-7092~4	2001-10-24	SME Visual Works	3 CD version.
Sega Game Music Vol.2	ALC-22909	1987-02-25	G.M.O. Records / Alfa Records	Cassette version.
Sega Game Music Vol.2	ALR-22909	1987-02-25	G.M.O. Records / Alfa Records	Vinyl version.
Sega Game Music Vol.2	SCDC-00052	2000-10-18	Scitron Digital Content Inc.	CD version.
SDI & Quartet ~SEGA System 16 Collection~ Original Soundtrack	WM-0511	2005-10-27	Wave Master	CD version.
GS SELECTION - GS Club Special Project	N/A	1988-03-01	Softbank Publishing	Double vinyl version.

External Links

• Sinclair ZX Spectrum version of Quartet at the World of Spectrum

References

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.