Air Buster - Trouble Specialty © 1990 NAMCO, Ltd.
A horizontally scrolling shoot'em up game.
Main CPU: (3x) Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound Chips: YM2203 (@ 3 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 3 Mhz)
Players: 2
Control: 8-Way Joystick.
Buttons: 2
=> Shoot, Shoot
Released in January 1990 in Japan.
The second level of Air Buster was clearly the inspiration for the 3rd level of 'Turrican 2'.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Air Buster - PCCB-00025) on 21/04/1990.
Developed by Kaneko.
Software: S. Igarashi (To-y), H. Takeuchi (Tiny-Tomo)
Graphics: K. Matsuoka, N. Obana, T. Konakawa
Hardware: H. Mikami, H. Nagayoshi
Music composed by: Tatsuya Watanabe
Sound operate: S. Aizu
Test game: F. Komori, K. Niihara, T. Okamoto
Total coordinate: S. Igarashi (To-y)
General producer: Hiroshi Kaneko
CONSOLES:
Nec PC Engine (1990) "Aero Blasters"
Sega Mega Drive (1991) "Aero Blasters"
Game's manual.
Game's picture.
Game's ROMs.
Game's screenshots.
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