Lost In Translation/Starblade
Starblade | |
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Manufacturer | Namco |
Released | 1991 |
Control Method |
Analog joystick 4 Button(s) |
Main CPU | (2x) 68000 (@ 12.288 MHz) M6809 (@ 3.072 MHz) HD63705 (@ 2.048 MHz) TMS32025 (@ 24.000 MHz) TMS32025 (@ 96.000 MHz) |
Sound CPU | Stereo C140 (@ 21.390 kHz) YM2151 (@ 3.580 MHz) |
Video Details |
Raster (Horizontal) 496 x 480 pixels 60.00 Hz 32,768 Palette colours |
Screens | 1 |
ROM Info | 25 ROMs 9,363,456 bytes (8.93 MiB) |
MAME ID | starblad |
About The Game
Starblade is a 3-D, filled-vector, arcade video game shoot-em-up.
The game features 2 separate missions; the first is to destroy the planet 'Red Eye' while the second is to wipe out the enemy fleet and their leader. The game's sit-down cabinet featured a seat that vibrated whenever the player was hit, either by incoming fire or by enemy objects such as ships, asteroids etc. The yoke joystick - which had a fire button situated at the top of the stick, underneath where the player's thumb sits - was very similar in appearance and feel to that used in Atari's 1983 wire-frame classic, "Star Wars".
Trivia
Starblade was a very obvious influence on both the visual appearance and gameplay of the superb Nintendo Super NES game, 'Star Fox' - written in the UK by Argonaut Software.
Victor Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Starblade & Galaxian3 - Project Dragon : Namco Game Sound Express Vol.06 - VICL-15009) on 21/03/1992.
Series
- Starblade (1991)
- Starblade 2 - Starblade : Operation Blue Planet (Developed in 2002, but unpublished)
Staff
- Chief Director
- H. Nakatani
- Assistant Director
- K. Kobayashi
- Programmers
- Norimasa Matsuura
- Y. Saitoh
- Y. Ohmori
- Music & Sound Effects
- Shinji Hosoe
- Visual Director
- W. Yanagawa
- Visual Designers
- N. Kumagai
- M. Tejima
- M. Kimura
- Industrial Designer
- N. Yoshimatsu
- Mechanical Designers
- S. Kanebako
- H. Igarashi
- T. Wakayama
- J. Uchida
- Electrical Designers
- M. Yamada
- O. Morita
- M. Ito
- Producers
- K. Sawano
- M. Yamada
Cabinet and Artwork
Ports
- Consoles
- Sega Mega-CD (1994)
- Panasonic 3DO (1994)
- Sony PlayStation (1995, "Starblade Alpha")
- Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, as a bonus game in "Tekken 5")
Soundtrack Releases
Album Name | Catalogue No. | Released | Publisher | Comments |
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Namco Game Sound Express VOL.06 Star Blade / Galaxian³ Project Dragoon | VICL-15009[1] | 1992-03-21 | Victor Entertainment | CD version. |