Blazing Star
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.
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Details
- IGDB 7.0
- Release date
- 19 Jan 1998
- Genres
Shooter Arcade
- Developers
- Platforms
iOS Linux Arcade PC (Microsoft Windows) Mac Neo Geo AES Neo Geo MVS Web browser Nintendo
- Platforms
iOS — 26 Jul 2012 Android — 25 Jul 2012 Arcade — 24 Feb 1998 PC (Microsoft Windows) — 8 Dec 2015 Mac — 8 Dec 2015 Linux — 8 Dec 2015 Neo Geo AES — 26 Jan 1998 Neo Geo MVS — 19 Jan 1998 Web browser Wii
- Game modes
Single player Co-operative
- Perspectives
Side view
- Alternative titles
ACA NEOGEO BLAZING STAR
- Publishers
