Fantasy Zone
| Fantasy Zone | |
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Japanese Fantasy Zone arcade flyer
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| Developer(s) |
Sega Bits Laboratory GRC Pixel SunSoft |
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| Composer(s) | Hiroshi Kawaguchi |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Famicom/NES, MSX, PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16,SNK Neo Geo, Sega Game Gear, Sega Mark III/Master System, Sega Saturn, X68000 |
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| Genre(s) | Scrolling shooter, Cute 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Cabinet | Standard |
| Arcade system | Sega System 16A |
| Sound | YM2151 |
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Raster, standard resolution horizontal orientation |
| Manga | |
| Published | October 1987 |
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| Volumes | 1 |
Fantasy Zone (ファンタジーゾーン Fantajī Zōn?) is an arcade game released by Sega internationally on March 28, 1986, and is the first Fantasy Zone series. It was later ported to a wide variety of consoles, including the Sega Master System. The player controls a sentient spaceship named Opa-Opa who fights an enemy invasion in the titular group of planets. The game contains a number of features atypical of the traditional scrolling shooter. The main character, Opa-Opa, is sometimes referred to as Sega's first mascot character. The game design and main character had many similarities to the earlier TwinBee, and together the games are credited with the creation of the "cute 'em up" subgenre.
In the space year 1422 (6216 in the Master System version), the Fantasy Zone was cast in panic at the collapse of the interplanetary monetary system. The Space Guild brings to light the plans of the planet Menon, whose forces are stealing the other planets' currencies to fund a huge fortress in the Fantasy Zone. Opa-Opa is sent to stop the invading army and discover who is behind it. In the end, it turns out that the leader was none other than Opa-Opa's long lost father, a revelation that leaves Opa-Opa with mixed emotions.
In the game, the player's ship is placed in a level with a number of bases to destroy. When all the bases are gone, the stage boss appears, who must be defeated in order to move on to the next stage. There are eight stages, and in all of them, except the final one, the scroll is not fixed; the player can move either left or right, although the stage loops. The final level consists of a rematch against all of the previous bosses in succession before facing the final boss.
Opa-Opa uses two different attacks: the standard weapon (initially bullets) and bombs. He can also move down to land on the ground by sprouting feet and walking around until he flies again.
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