Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment [Green Board]

Capcom CPS-II cart. published 30 years ago by Capcom Co., Ltd.

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Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment © 1994 Capcom Company, Limited.

An up-to-3-player side-scrolling beat'em up game where four selectable mechs and their respective pilots try to save Earth from battle with a sister planet's renegade army. Parts of destroyed mechs can be outfitted onto your mech to create interesting and deadly combinations.

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TECHNICAL

Runs on the "CP System II" hardware.
Green Board [Japan]

Players: Up to 3.
Control: 8-way joystick per player.
Buttons: 3 per player.
=> [1] Arm attack, [2] Jump, [3] Weapon attack

TRIVIA

Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment was released on September 16, 1994 in Japan. It was known as the 7th CPS-II game.

This game is known outside Japan as "Armored Warriors". Here is a list of known export releases:
"Armored Warriors [Blue Board]"
"Armored Warriors [Grey Board]"

Sony Music Works released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Powered Gear Arcade Game Track - SRCL-3089) on December 1, 1994.

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UPDATES

Green Board releases :

REVISION 1 :
* Build date : 940916

REVISION 2 :
* Build date : 941024

TIPS AND TRICKS

* Selecting Joint Parts : While the demo appears for joint machine, the player who gets the radio machine must enter the following keys...
Beta-Cannon - Hold Up.
Gamma-Battler - Hold Left or Right.
Alpha-Fortress - Hold Down.

* Selecting Parts : At the stage title screen, hold B+C (over 1 sec.) and then enter the following keys...
Bomber - Leftup
Death Drill - Up
Missile - Rightup
Laser blade - Left
Force claw - Right
Flame - Leftdown
Chain spark - Down
Laser - Rightdown

Note : You can select both the arm and the sub weapon at the same time, but, if you enter codes for arm or sub weapon twice only the later code will work.

SERIES

1. Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment [Green Board] (1994)
2. Cyberbots - Fullmetal Madness (1995)

STAFF

Planners: Kiyo, T.H.T.Fuji, Tuchihashi Bakabon
Programmers: Y. Tunazaki Forever, Hero Hero, H. HASssssY, Hamachan, Dress
Mechanical and object designers: Yochabare, E. Kuratani, H. Uemura, Naoki Fujisawa, Y. Maruno, H. Yoshino, You-Tenkozow (You.Ten Kozow), Igami, Nekokan, U.F.O, Naoki Fukuda, Bakky
Art designers: Matsumoto, Y. Maruyama, M. Oshino, Takuji Mishima, Saru, Kohei Akiyama
Sound composer: Takayuki Iwai (Anarchy Takapon)
Sound designer: Tomuyuki Kawakami (T.K NY)
Special adviser: Noritaka Funamizu (Poo), Shochan, Kenkn, Meshi, Furoboh
Character designer: T.O.M
AD designers: Sensei, Sakomizu
Director: Yoshiki Okamoto (Kihaji Okamoto)

SOURCES

Game's ROM.