HYPER SHOOTING
DEAD MOON GESSEKAI NO AKUMU
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デッドムーン 月世界の悪夢
©1991 T.S.S
Release : 1991-02-22 (¥7400)
HuCard (4 Mbits) TS91001
Shooter / Horizontal
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Released in America as
DEAD MOON
( TGX040081 )
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Dead Moon is a side-scrolling shooter published by TTS. In the near
future, a mysterious comet has crashed into the Moon and an army of deadly alien
invaders are slowly building up on it, ready to invade the Earth. The players takes
control of a special space-fighter especially designed to counter the alien attack, and
starts his journey from a futuristic city on Earth, and fights his way through six
levels up the Moon and deep inside its core. The ship comes equipped with a standard
and upgradeable weapon, as well as three smart bombs. The default weapon is a multi-way
Vulcan gun (yellow), and more are available throughout the game - ring lasers
(red), lasers (blue) and blaster waves (green). Each weapon can be upgraded by
collecting power-up icons of the same type twice, and this up to four times - and when they
finally reach their maximum power, the ship automatically gains an extra smart bomb. Weapons
also double as a shield - each time the ship gets hit, it loses a power-level, preventing it to be
destroyed until it reaches its lowest level. Secondary weapons can also be equipped, such as
homing missiles and defense satellites. Finally, the ship's speed can also be
adjusted at anytime during the game, allowing the player to adapt to a given situation.
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Teaser text from the American version:
Alpha 27. The one planet in the galaxy fit for human habitation.
For many years, the superb space observation system here was
used for a wide range of research. One day, horrifying news
arrived - a giant comet was hurtling toward the solar system,
and on its present course it was going to collide with the moon!
The humans tried launching nuclear missiles against the giant
comet. but the comet slammed into the face of the moon. And
then... nothing! For some strange reason, the humans and the
moon seemed completely unaffacted. The humans heaved a
sigh of relief - unaware that a new nightmare had already
begun! The giant comet had changed shape - it wasn't a comet
at all, it was an alien mother ship!
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Story from the Japanese's introduction:
It was about two centuries after the beginning of human space
exploration, that the monitor center located at the far reached of the
solar system, near pluto had reported the presence of a new comet.
According to calculations, this comet was supposed to miss the
earth by about 1,200,000,000 kilometers, and for this purpose
space probes were sent towards this comet to replay information
to the earth. At about 200,00 kilometers away from the comet, the
probes were begining to send data back to the earth, howere, all
of a sudden the comet become brighter and shifter cource towards
the probes, disintegrationg them, after which the comet began to
head directory towards the earth. ALL U.N. countries with space
Programs began working on an emergency project to avert disaster
several weeks latter, orbit shifting [ATFI] missiles were launched
towords the oncoming comet. The result was that the comer shifted
cource just enough to aoid the earth, but collide instead with our moon.
Since the comet was only several kilometers in diameter, it seemed
that the only damage was a sizable crater on the moon. When probes
were sent to the moon, to inspect the damages, no trace of the comet
was to be found. Instead what they discovered were a host of
alien military spacecraft.
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Game Staff (Copied from the end credits) :
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Dead Moon Staff
Game Design
T. Yoshimine
M. Tamura
K. Kawahata
Program
T. Yoshimine
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Graphic
M. Tamura
K. Kawahata
Music
M. Ishimoda
Y. Sonoda
Sound Effect
H. Nishikawa
nd Effects
Terra
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Adviser
E. Euda
T. Kajii
A. Kayamoto
K. Hayashi
Special Thanks
Cozono
J. Kojima
Sanbon's
T. Tagami
N. Satoh
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Y. Honda
Y. Kawada
H, Kojima
H. Tanita
A. Ishida
And You
1991 Created By
Studio Ducks
1991 ©Natsume
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Dead Moon is definitively a game that slipped through the cracks or
popularity. Underneath its fairly generic surface lurks a decent and fun shooter.
It features good graphics and an impressive parallax scrolling (which uses up to
six levels!) - the third stage (moon surface) is definitively a true piece of
technical achievement. But most of all, playability is fantastic and the difficulty
overall feels well balanced. So why is Dead Moon never featured in the top
list of shooters for the system ? Well, although the game's levels have a nice logical
progression (from the Earth to the Moon), some argue that level variation
is generic and rather bland compared to other AAA shooters for the system, and that
the game doesn't really stand out from the crowd. But I think Dead Moon is more
than correct, the gameplay is extremely fast and I recommend it to shooter fans out there.
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