Koji Teramoto Hiromichi Sueyoshi Kazuyuki Nakashima
Programmer(s)
Takayuki Hirono
Platform(s)
TurboGrafx-16
Release
JP: July 7, 1989
NA: November 1989
Genre(s)
Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)
Single-player
Gunhed,[a] known as Blazing Lazers[b] in North America, is a vertically scrolling shooter game by Hudson Soft and Compile, based on the Japanese film Gunhed. The title was released in 1989, for the PC Engine in Japan and re-skinned for the TurboGrafx-16 in North America, with Gunhed unofficially imported for the PC Engine in Europe. In the game, a fictional galaxy is under attack by an enemy space armada called the Dark Squadron, and this galaxy's only chance for survival is the Gunhed Advanced Star Fighter, who must destroy the Dark Squadron and its Super Weapons. The gameplay features fast vertical scrolling and a wide array of weapons for the player to use.
Blazing Lazers was produced by the same personnel who developed other video game series such as Puyo Puyo and Super Bomberman as well as other games such as Zanac, The Guardian Legend, and DoReMi Fantasy: Milon's DokiDoki Adventure. It was one of the first games released for the TurboGrafx-16 and has received critical praise for its graphical capabilities, lack of slowdown, intense gameplay, and sound. The Blazing Lazers version of the game has been released on the Wii's Virtual Console service in North America, Europe and Australia in 2007, and in Japan the following year.[1][2][3] This same version was later released in Japan on the PlayStation Network in 2010, and on the Wii U's Virtual Console in 2014.[4][5][3]
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