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中華大仙
Programmed By Disco
©Taito Corp. 1989
Release: 1989-09-22 (¥5800)
Cartdridge DTF-CW
Shooter/horizontal
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Chūka Taisen is a side scrolling shooter by Disco, conversion
of Taito's arcade game originally released in 1988. The game takes place
in ancient China and features a young red-haired character on a floating cloud.
The boy is on a journey throughout the world to become the greatest wizard and the
game's theme is unmistakably inspired by the classical Chinese novel Monkey King
(known in China as Xi You Ji or Journey to the West). Our hero starts his
journey with piddly and weak energy-balls (probably coming from his inner Ki energy).
He will however find various upgrades and other weapons along the way to fight
back the increasingly stronger foes and reinforcements coming his way. Some
enemies release red jars when destroyed - these can upgrade his primary weapon
or make him fly faster. Mid round bosses give access to special shops where
secondary weapons can be equipped - they are free for the picking but only one
can be used at the same time. These include Dragon Fire, three way fireballs,
Bombs and so forth. Chūka Taisen features six long stages to play in total.
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Game Staff (copied from the end credits) :
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Planning
Kujira Man
Kobuhei Japan
Program
Funky George
Soul Duke
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Graphic
Nekoto Jr
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Sound
Planet2
Soul Duke
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Produced By
Ojyamamushi
GAME OVER
To be continued
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Add your Pov here !
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Chūka Taisen starts out as a fun and unusual shooter - boy rinding a cloud,
odd enemies, flying dumplings - but it rapidly turns into a repetitive yawn. First
off, each stage involves visiting a different location but each background just
loops through over and over. Then each stage has the same structure and alternates
enemies/mid-boss/enemies/mid-boss in the same order. This kind of repetition comes
across as cheap... Finally, Chūka Taisen is unbelievably hard and fundamentally
unfair - lose a life and you start the whole stage from the beginning (or annoyingly
far enough), even if you were at the boss! That's nasty. All in all, Chūka Taisen
is fun but it fails to make any lasting impression - in that respect, they did stay
pretty close to the original arcade game...
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