ALDYNES
THE MISSION CODE FOR RAGE CRISIS
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オルディネス
©1991 Hudson Soft
Release : 1990-02-22 (¥9800)
HuCard-SuperGrafx (8 Mbits) HC91044
Shooter / Horizontal
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Aldynes is a side scrolling shooter developed by Produce and
published by Hudson Soft, and one of the three shooters ever to be released
for the SuperGrafx system. The game takes place in 2020 and starts on Earth,
which is under severe attack by a race of seemingly unstoppable aliens. An artificial planet
is approaching our home world, and swarms of enemy ships have now invaded our air space. The
elite pilot Hiroko, on board her assault space fighter Ortega (codenamed
'Aldynes'), is sent to counter the impending Armageddon, and to fly deep inside the
enemy planetoid to destroy it from within. The star fighter comes initially equipped with a
standard Vulcan Gun that can be switched out for more powerful weaponry. Power-ups pods
are available for the player to pick up and equip one of three different weapons - the
2 ways beams (white), the piercing lasers (blue) and the bubble-spread gun (green).
Collecting the same weapon twice increases its power, and all weapons can be upgraded a total of
five times. But the 'Aldynes' has another deadly weapon - un to four floating robot pods
can be collected throughout the game and help the player in his mission. They can either stay
close to the fighter and protect it against enemy attacks, or wander around the screen and shoot
at anything within their firing range. Finally, a small frontal force field can be charged up at
the front of the ship by holding the fire button. Aldynes consists or seven stages.
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Game Staff (Copied from the end credits) :
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STAFF
Directed by
Kyon Kyon
Art Director
H. Harada
Programmer
B. Hanawa
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Design
J. Kusaka
Decorator
T. Suzuki
Edited by
M. Sakai
Music by
K. Hoshi
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Advisor
M. Ueyama
Publicist
M. Kadowaki
Trainer
H. Ohta
Production by
N. Kobayashi
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Sound Director
T. Takimoto
Casting by
E. Aoyama
Created by
PRODUCE!
©1991 by
HUDSON SOFT
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Aldynes is one of those rare games released for the elusive Supergrafx system,
and this exclusive and underlooked horizontal shooter is simply and utterly amazing. The
graphics are incredibly detailed (despite being a bit too dark to my taste) and the game is
technically remarkable. Be ready to get your eyes filled with amazement - zillion of sprites on
screen, multi-level scrolling, sprite scaling and rotations. The first huge boss is pure pleasure
and sets the tone for things to come. However, Aldynes is overall really hard and suffers
from a frustratingly steep difficulty curve, and this flaw really overshadowed the rest of the game
to me. Most of the first levels rely on memorizing enemy patterns and positions (in a way similar to
Irem's R Type), but later stage are ridiculously impossible to complete. Aldynes
is a little known and rare shooter, thus very scarce and can fetch high prices - and don't forget
that you'll need to purchase a pricey Supergrafx system as well...
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