Lost In Translation/Section Z

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Section Z
Manufacturer	Capcom
Released	1985
Control Method	8-way Joystick 2 Button(s)
Main CPU	Z80 (@ 6.000 MHz) Z80 (@ 4.000 MHz)
Sound CPU	Mono (2x) YM2203 (@ 1.500 MHz)
Video Details	Raster (Horizontal) 256 x 240 pixels 60.00 Hz 1,024 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	18 ROMs 540,928 bytes (528.25 KiB)
MAME ID	sectionz · sctionza

About The Game

Section Z is an horizontally and vertically scrolling arcade video game shoot-em-up.

As a sole astronaut, you must penetrate the alien Balangool space craft and destroy the evil 'L-Brain'. Make your way through 27 alphabet-labelled levels to find his lair.

Trivia

Released in December 1985.

The first of Capcom's 'Jet-Pack Hero' shooters! Your hero is officially called "Captain Commando". :)

Section Z has a couple of bugs, sprites don't clip properly when scrolling on or off the left side of the screen or the top of the screen.

Every few sections (stages), the direction of the game's scrolling changes, from left-to-right, to bottom-to-top, to right-to-left, etc.

One section features a pinball machine in which you must avoid the multiple flying pinballs.

Alfa Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Capcom Game Music - 28XA-94) on 25/08/1986.

Series

1. Section Z (1985)
2. Side Arms - Hyper Dyne (1986)

Staff

Programmed By

Toshio Arima

Music By

Tamayo Kawamoto

Cabinet and Artwork

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  Section Z arcade cabinet.

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  Section Z flyer.

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  Back of the Section Z flyer.

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  Alternate Section Z flyer.

Ports

Consoles

Nintendo Famicom (1987)

Nintendo Famicom Disk

Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, "Capcom Classics Collection")

Microsoft XBOX (2005, "Capcom Classics Collection")

Sony PSP (2006, "Capcom Classics Collection Remixed")

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Capcom Game Music	28XA-94	1986-08-25	Alfa Records	CD version.
Capcom Game Music	ALC-22905	1986-08-25	Alfa Records	Cassette version.
Capcom Game Music	ALR-22905	1986-08-25	Alfa Records	Vinyl version.
Capcom Game Music	SCDC-00193	2002-06-19	Scitron Digital Content Inc.	CD version.

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.