Lost In Translation/Sengoku

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Sengoku
Neo-Geo marquee.
No screen shot.
Neo-Geo control panel.
Manufacturer SNK
Released 1991
Control
Method
8-way Joystick
4 Button(s)
Main CPU Neo-Geo
68000 (@ 12.000 MHz)
Z80 (@ 4.000 MHz)
Sound CPU Stereo
YM2610 (@ 8.000 MHz)
Video
Details
Raster (Horizontal)
320 x 224 pixels
59.19 Hz
4,096 Palette colours
Screens 1
ROM Info 21 ROMs
8,585,216 bytes (8.19 MiB)
MAME ID sengoku · sengokh

About The Game

Sengoku is an horizontally scrolling arcade video game beat-em-up.

Two warriors, endowed with spiritual gifts, fight to stop the resurrection of the Mad Shogun. Lots of very interesting enemies and beautiful scenery. The player also has the ability to morph into different fighters.

Additional Technical Information

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 3

=> [A] Attack [B] Jump [C] Change

Trivia

Released in February 1991.

This game is known in Japan as "Sengoku Denshou" (translates from Japanese as 'Civil War Tradition').

The game includes different items which change the special attack :

Colour Action
Green When 10 green items are collected, life gauge gain 1up
Red Samurai sword
Blue Double sword
Purple Holy sword
Gold Unknown effect

In level 2, there is a store called 'Boutique Athena' in the background with the original Athena logo from 1986's "Athena" by SNK.

Tips and tricks

Hold the attack button for a couple seconds to launch a burst of energy from the player's fist.

Series

  1. Sengoku (1991)
  2. Sengoku 2 (1993)
  3. Sengoku 3 (2001)

Staff

Producer
Yanbaru
Programmers
Shinchan (as 'Shinchan-SSS')
Oh!Butch
Sound
Tate Norio
Toshio Shimizm (as Shimizum)
Picture
U-Rakuchou
Marohie
Mic-Senbey
Chulip-Nao
Dadamusi
Sick of
Game Assists
Dirty-H-Miyamaki
Phantom Iwata
HTMS-Sugimori
Directors
Tama
Moonmin

Cabinet and Artwork

Ports

Consoles
Nintendo Super Famicom (1993, "Sengoku Denshou")
Sega Mega CD (1993, "Sengoku Denshou")
SNK Neo-Geo CD (1995, "Sengoku Denshou")

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name Catalogue No. Released Publisher Comments
Crossed Swords / Sengoku Denshou PCCB-00076[1] 1991-11-21 Pony Canyon/Scitron 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.