Super Star Soldier
スーパースターソルジャー1990Super Star Soldier
スーパースターソルジャーThe Star Brain corps returns under Mother Brain in this vertical shooter.
Super Star Soldier is a vertical scrolling shooter from Hudson's Star Soldier series. It is the sequel to the original Star Soldier, and it has eight levels to clear.
| RELEASED IN JAPAN | 6 July 1990 |
|---|---|
| RELEASED IN NORTH AMERICA | 1991 |
| DEVELOPED BY | Kaneko |
| PUBLISHED BY | Hudson Soft in Japan and North America |
| SEQUEL TO | Star Soldier |
The ship starts with a basic gun. Power-ups add new weapons, including flamethrowers and homing missiles.
Smart bombs come from flashing power-up orbs. Each orb collected also adds a continue from the point of death.
When the continues run out, the player is sent back to an earlier restart point in the level.
Four years after the original, the Star Brain corps returns from defeat, now led by Mother Brain. Earth's only defence is a single fighter ship, which must finish the job.
Kaneko developed the game for Hudson, which published it in Japan and North America.
Virtual Console releases came to North America in November 2006, and to Japan and Europe that December. It came to the Japanese PlayStation Store on 19 August 2009, and to the North American store on 3 June 2011.
The Japanese release came on 6 July 1990, and the North American release followed in 1991. Its Windows Store release followed at the end of 2013.
Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game first in popularity in its September 1990 issue.
Critics gave it generally favourable reviews. It scored 23.07 out of 30 in a 1993 PC Engine Fan reader poll, placing it 85th among PC Engine games.
The Software Bible calls it an unofficial sequel to Gunhed. It keeps that game's formula of upgradeable weapons and varied landscapes.
- The 2008 PlayStation Portable compilation Soldier Collection included it.
- The artist Perry Sessions, known as Rozyrg, cited it as a main influence on Super XYX.
- It reached the Windows Store on 20 December 2013.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Star_Soldier
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- https://pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/Super_Star_Soldier.htm
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtqqFhbGjJ0
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