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Zero Wing

Excerpt from Genesis Game Guide by The Scribe

NAME:             Zero Wing
AUTHOR/VENDOR:    Toaplan
RELEASED:         1991
TYPE:             Shooter
LANGUAGE:         English and Japanese

PREMISE:          An alien being known only as CATS has disabled an Earth
                  exploratory cruiser, leaving it helpless in deep space.
                  Fearing a further attack that could result in the loss
                  of his ship, its captain orders every space fighter on
                  board armed and launched to deal with any unwelcome
                  visitors that CATS might send along....

IMPRESSIONS:      Moderately playable shooter.  The ability to catch and
                  toss around enemy ships with a tractor beam is a nice
                  innovation, but limited power-ups and awful ship designs
                  hurt this title.   All texts are in English, but they're
                  so poorly translated that they're hilarious - I haven't
                  laughed so hard in months! (Rage Games)

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Re: Zero Wing (Score: 1)
by TReid (thortr@hotmail.com.nospam) on Thursday, May 31 @ 12:45:46 EDT
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This game was well translated!

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Re: Zero Wing by Snorter on Thursday, May 31 @ 13:38:47 EDT
- Zero Wing, made by a no name company, classic translation :) by Hiryu on Tuesday, June 26 @ 16:13:33 EDT
  - Re: Zero Wing, made by a no name company, classic translatio by TReid on Thursday, June 28 @ 10:22:33 EDT
Re: Zero Wing by Anonymous on Saturday, July 26 @ 00:05:10 EDT

Zero Wing (Score: 1)
by DarkWolf on Tuesday, July 24 @ 16:35:18 EDT
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Yes, it was a bad translation, and Gaiares from Telenet was much better as far as gameplay. I'm sick and tired of hear "All your base belong to us," most people who say it don't know where it's from. It has become quite annoying, so much that I'd like to put a crossbow bolt through the master cartridge.

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Re: Zero Wing by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 01 @ 01:38:17 EDT
- Re: Zero Wing by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 07 @ 10:47:41 EST

Re: Zero Wing (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Saturday, October 20 @ 22:31:10 EDT

All your base are belong to us...
if nothing else, this game spawned one of the funniest joke video clips of all time and deserves great kudos for such a feat, etc, etc...

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Re: Zero Wing (Score: 1)
by Sparxster (webmaster@rocketknight.com) on Friday, November 23 @ 05:12:30 EST
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This game is sooo overated i agree that gaiares and such were better. the tractor beam is cool, but its not as good a game as they say!

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Re: Zero Wing (Score: 1)
by HaloMan on Tuesday, January 15 @ 16:21:54 EST
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I own this game, but haven't got use of a scanner to upload the cover for it though. Anyway, the game isn't very good and in my opinion very difficult.

Something that may be of intrest is the paragraph on the back of the box:

"Cats, the leader of a band of swashbuckling space pirates, is terrorizing the galaxy. You must pilot the only remaining Milky Way attack craft into combat and stop Cats and his buccaneers"

Anyway, I'm happy as I bought a second hand copy from Gamestation for Ł3 a few weeks ago and just for the "I have this" value its worth it.

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Re: Zero Wing by Anonymous on Saturday, July 26 @ 00:08:19 EDT

Re: Zero Wing (Score: 1)
by sth2k on Sunday, March 03 @ 13:35:07 EST
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The game's crap, but the dialogue's funny...I want that cart so much!

...does anyone know where to get it...?

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Re: Zero Wing (Score: 1)
by plaidlesspez on Saturday, March 30 @ 08:15:43 EST
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What does "all your base are belong to us" mean? I've heard things about it, but I don't get how it got it's publicity and what it's supposed to mean.

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Re: Zero Wing by Anonymous on Friday, March 07 @ 21:11:39 EST

Re: Zero Wing (Score: 1)
by Genesisblackbelt on Thursday, July 11 @ 16:41:32 EDT
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Usally I lookat a shooter and think of it as any other. This is very diffrent and fun.

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Re: Zero Wing (Score: 1)
by deaddudegod on Thursday, August 08 @ 22:35:31 EDT
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If you want to own it because of what it spawned, then go for it. If you want a decent R-Type clone, go for Thunderforce 4.

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Re: Zero Wing (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Friday, February 14 @ 10:44:36 EST

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Re: Zero Wing (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, June 07 @ 05:30:33 EDT

I am so sick of seeing every shooting game being called a clone beacuse it isnt R-type. * r-type. How do you like that.?

This game is ok. To easy. The only way to play it is but turn the rapid off and put it on hard and it becomes a good game. "and awful ship designs hurt this title" my ass.

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Re: Zero Wing (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, June 07 @ 05:32:09 EDT

I am so sick of seeing every shooting game being called a clone beacuse it isnt R-type. F#@k r-type. How do you like that.?

This game is ok. To easy. The only way to play it is to turn the rapid off and put it on hard and it becomes a good game. "and awful ship designs hurt this title" my ass.

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