Technosoft
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| Public (Defunct) | |
| Industry | Video games industry |
| Fate | Merged with Twenty-one Company |
| Successor | Twenty-one Company Sega (Intellectual Properties) |
| Founded | February 1980 |
| Defunct | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan |
| Products |
Thunder Force Herzog Elemental Master Plazma Line |
| Website | www.tecnosoft.com (archived version 1998-06-25) (Translated) |
| Plazma Line プラズマライン |
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| Developer(s) | Technosoft |
| Publisher(s) | Technosoft |
| Designer(s) | Katsunori Yoshimura |
| Platform(s) | NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, FM-7, Sharp X1 |
| Release |
PC-8801 / PC-6001 / X1 1984 FM-7 December 1984 |
| Genre(s) |
First -person racing game Space flight simulator |
Technosoft (also known as Tecno Soft and Techno Soft) was a Japanese video game developer that was active from 1980 to 2001.
The company's most commercially successful franchise was the Thunder Force series. It was a series of scrolling shooter video games. The series began with the original Thunder Force in 1983. The games are known by fans of the genre for their hardcore appeal, pleasing graphics, and generally well composed synthesizer-based chiptune music soundtracks.
The series' first game, Thunder Force, appeared in 1983 on a variety of Japanese computers, such as the Sharp X1, NEC PC-8801 mkII, and FM-7. Technosoft also released a level editor, or game creation system, entitled Thunder Force Construction, for the original game on the FM-7 computer in 1984. Since Thunder Force II, the majority of installments in the series appeared on the Mega Drive console, where the series gained much of its popularity. The most recent entry was released on PlayStation 2.
Plazma Line () is a first-person space racing game released by Technosoft for the NEC PC-8801 and FM-7 computers in 1984. The objective of the game is to race through outer space in a first-person view while avoiding obstacles (rendered in 3D polygons) along the way. Plazma Line is notable for being the first computer game, and home video game in general, with 3D polygon graphics. It also featured an automap radar to keep track of the player's position.
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