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Blazing Star (1998)

Yumekobo

Android · Arcade · Linux · Mac · Neo Geo AES · Neo Geo MVS · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Web Browser · Wii · iOS

3.71 from 34 ratings

188 members have it in their collection · 78 backlogged · 21 wish listed

How long? Main story 1h (from 1 logged playthrough)

Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo Geo home game system. It is the sequel to the acclaimed Neo Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo Geo ROM at 346 Mb, the game makes extensive use of pseudo-3D prerendered sprites, brief anime and CGI cutscenes (mostly … Read more
Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo Geo home game system. It is the sequel to the acclaimed Neo Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo Geo ROM at 346 Mb, the game makes extensive use of pseudo-3D prerendered sprites, brief anime and CGI cutscenes (mostly during the intro sequence), and frequent Engrish voice samples and captions. While Blazing Star was superior in many respects to previous shooter games, some fans compare it unfavorably with Pulstar on the basis that Blazing Star was overly easy and there are those that prefer the simpler 2D sprite look over the prerendered sprites that came to dominate many of the more recent shoot-em-ups. Read less
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Details

Developers
Yumekobo
Publishers
D4 Enterprise, Inc, SNK
Genres
Arcade, Shooter
Themes
Action, Science fiction

Release dates

  • Jan 19, 1998 (North_America) Neo Geo MVS
  • Jan 19, 1998 (Japan) Neo Geo MVS
  • Jan 26, 1998 (Japan) Neo Geo AES
  • Feb 24, 1998 (Worldwide) Arcade
  • Jul 25, 2012 (Worldwide) Android
  • Jul 26, 2012 (Worldwide) iOS
  • Dec 08, 2015 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)

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5 stars
5
4 stars
16
3 stars
11
2 stars
0
1 star
1
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