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スター パロジャー
©1992 Hudson Soft
1992 Inter State/Kaneko
Release: 1992-04-24 (¥6800)
SuperCDRom² HCD2024
Shooter / Vertical
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Star Parodia (also known as Star Parodier) is a cute vertical shooter
by Hudson Soft. As the name sorts of implies, Star Parodia parodies memorable
and seminal game icons created by the Japanese company, namely Star Soldier,
Bomberman and the PC Engine system itself. Planet Paroson is at stake
and the Mother Brain's army must be stopped ! Earth decides to deploy three of its best
star fighters - Paro-Caesar (Caesar is the ship from the Star Soldier series),
a large robotic and flying Bomberman, and a white ship in the shape of the original
PC Engine system. Each fighter comes equipped with its own set of weapons and abilities,
from lasers and Vulcan guns for the Paro-Caesar, bombs and explosives for
Bomberman, to utterly unconventional Hucards, CDRoms and controller pads
for the PC Engine ship. Each fighter features three main weapon systems (Red, blue
and yellow) that can be switched by collecting different power-ups, and accumulating them
increase their strength and range of destruction. Finally, and in the Star Soldier tradition,
secondary weapons are also available for the picking, such as multiples, shields and
missiles. Star Parodia features eight long and humorous stages, midpoint mini-bosses,
and two score-attack modes.
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Star Parodia was planned for release in North America under the name
Fantasy Star Soldier (picture on the left). It however never made it commercially and the release was
eventually canceled. Interestingly, a working prototype was later found and leaked to
the public. It is anyone's guess as to why this English version wasn't released for the
Virtual Console in 2008 - the version of Star Parodier available on the
Wii Virtual Console in North America is the Japanese version of the
game (including Japanese menus), and not Fantasy Star Soldier. Finally,
Star Parodia was included in the Soldier Collection released for the
Playstation Portable in 2008 (along with Final Soldier,
Super Star Soldier and Soldier Blade).
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Star Parodia's end credits is definitively a giddy nostalgic kaleidoscope of
Hudson Soft and Nec characters and video game machines (picture on the right). They feature the
Noah ship from hector'87,
the Gunhed space-fighter, the original
Caesar ship from Star Soldier, a PC Engine Shuttle ship and
a monolithic space station in the shape of a SuperGrafx !
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Game Staff (Copied from the end credits) :
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Production Executive
Kudō Yūji
Executive Producer
Nakamoto Shinichi
Producer
Aoyama Eiji
Game Design
Kawada Tadayuki
Technical Advisor
Matsunaga Tomofumi
Production Progress
Miyamoto Naruhito
Program
Yamashita Takashi
Sugimoto Takashi
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Graphic
Yokoyama Shō
Furuhashi Hideyuki
Yamamoto Kenji
Sound
Composition.Arrangement.Mixing
Saitō Hiroshi (Konpojira)
Composition
Watanabe hito (Uesuton)
CD Audio
Suzuki Makoto (konpojira)
PSG
Sakamoto Shinichi
S.E.
Iwabuchi Takayuki
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ADPCM
Inoue Masaaki
Sound Production
Sasagawa Toshiyuki
Takimoto Toshiaki
Voiced
Ginga Banjō
Hisakawa Aya
Narration Cooperation
Aoni Production
Furuichi Toshio
Studio Tabakku
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Special Thanks
Nagashima Yasunori
Arai Yoshihiro
Matsuura Hideki
Murage Kenji
Saitō Yoshimichi
Nakamura Hata?
Ōtake Hirokazu
Sekiguchi Shinobu
Yamaguchi Masato
Hatanaka Hiromitsu
Kawabata Shūji
Yamamoto Masa
Fukuyama Katsuji
Shioya Keita
Shiozawa Yukihisa
Abe Kazuyuki
Utō Akihiko
Katō Shirō
Taguchi Masayuki
Kōno Mitsuru
Production Cooperation
Interstate / KANEKO
Copyright Production
HUDSON SOFT
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In a way similar to Konami's Parodius series,
Hudson Soft created its own wacky spin-off, and called it
Star Parodia. I'm not ashamed to say that this awesome game
is the reason why I initially purchased a CDRom system - and
I don't regret it to this day. Star Parodia is a fantastic
shooter packed with crazy characters, absurd levels and a wonderfully
memorable soundtrack. Flying through the black Bomberman level,
crossing path with super-deformed and cute versions of bosses from
Super Star Soldier, finding out that the Caesar's pilot
is a blue-haired girl, or discovering that a Super Star Soldier
HuCard is inserted into the PC Engine ship before launch are the
kind of pleasures that hit my nostalgia button. The control system is
also precise and incredibly responsive, and the game starts off easy but
becomes more demanding as you progress (it never gets as hard as a
traditional Star Soldier game though). I highly recommend Star Parodia,
and beneath the cute and cuddly exterior lies an extremely well crafted shooter
that shouldn't be missed by fans of the genre.
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