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テトラスター
©Disco/Taito Corp. 1991
Licensed By Home Data
Release: 1991-05-24 (¥7400)
Cartdridge DTF-YE
Shooter/3D
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Tetrastar The Fighter is a 3D shooter by
Home Data and published by Taito. In
the year 2089, humanity forms an alliance with the
intergalactic Baal empire but soon Earth
finds out about the alien's true intentions. A group of
resistance assembles the project Tetrastar to prepare
for the potential upcoming threat. But the project lead by the
general Nelson is soon put on hold and a short lived peace
settles in. But the whole thing was nothing more than a hostile
invasion and the Baal empire finally breaks the alliance and
attacks Earth. The player's first mission is to prevent
New York to be destroyed and then to retrieve Omega,
the faithful robot navigator, to warp to the alien's mother
world. The Tetrastar super fighter can move around the
screen and fire a standard Vulcan gun. Special weapons become
available later in the game from Bombs (WID),
Homing Missiles (AAM), Napalm Bombs (NAP)
and the powerful Bio Cannon (BIO) - they are accessible
via the Select button and triggered by pressing
A. They all come in limited quantities and must be
refilled by picking up power-pods along the way. Tetrastar
features nice stages and cutscenes between them unfold the
game's episodic story.
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Tetrastar The Fighter was fan translated by Gaijin Productions in 1999.
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Game Staff (Copied from the end credits) :
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Game Design
Viking
Graphic Design
Wozl
System Program
OFU
Main Program
Alice
Sub Program
Organ
Assist Program
Earlo
Music Compose
Piano Concerto No.1
1812 Tchaikovsky
The Ride Of The Valkyries
Lohengrin Wagner
Symphony NO.9
Dvorak
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A Night On The Bare Mountain
Symphonic Poem
The Flight OF The Bumble Bee
Rimsky-Korsakov
The Pretty Daughter Of Perth
Farandole Bizet
Sabre Dance
Khachaturyan
"Light Cavalry" -Overture
Suppe
Moon Light Sonata
Beethover
Aria
Bach
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Zigeunerweisen
Sarasate
Polonaise "Heroic"
Chopin
"William Tell -Overture
Rossini
Music Arrange
Sound Team "Eurythm"
Endoron
K. Fujii
Nakajima
Music Program
Kazune Hiiragi
Delta Driver
Murata
Sound Effect
Endodon
Kazune Hiiragi
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Voice
R. Hemnani
Special Thanks
Catherine
Miyazee
Executive Producer
Viking
Thank You For Playing.
See You Again.
The End
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Spoiler warning raised ! You might want to stop reading here, spoiler ahead !
Tetrastar The Fighter features two different endings. At the end
of the sixth stage, the player is attacked by formations of orange ships.
Most of the players will be captured by one of these ships and will loose
the poor Omega. But it is possible to make it through this stage
without sacrificing the robot dog which leads to different cutscenes and
to a slightly different ending.
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Add your Pov here !
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Tetrastar is a fantastic and unique shooter. It has tons of
personality, charm and it is topped with extensive technical values and
the screenshots from this review just don't really do it justice. First
you get hooked by the opening stage - New York in the distance,
the rain, the ocean beneath the ship, enemies smoothly firing pink bullets
at you and the soundtrack. Then the story kicks in and you just want to see
what the game has in store. Each level is distinctly different than the next
and it keeps throwing astounding technical feats at the screen. But most
of all, the imaginative story is what fuels this incredible shooter - it
definitively had an effect on me that I hadn't felt in a long time. The
soundtrack also cleverly borrows classical themes, makes them its own and
gives the game an unique ambiance throughout. Tetrastar is, I think,
a beautiful and underrated lost gem of a game.
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