Daioh 1993 Sammy
1993
Daioh (c) 1993 Sammy.
An excellent vertically scrolling space shoot'em up. Excellent graphics, multi-layer scrolling, big sprites (especially bosses), and an extreme difficulty that continued to increase from easy to insane the farther along you went without getting killed.
>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Main CPU : 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : X1-010 (@ 16 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 240 x 384 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 1536
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6
=> Ion Shot, Laser Shot, Missile Shot, Fire Bomb, Mega Beam, Atomic Bomb
>>> TRIVIA
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Developed by Athena Co. Ltd.
Released in July 1993.
The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Great King'.
Mark Carmichael holds the official record for this game with 144,900 points on July 15, 2006.
>>> DESIGNERS / PROGRAMMERS / STAFF
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Programmer : Tsutomu Tabata
Graphic designers : Undead Tama, Kata Chumuri, Numa
Composer : Sho
Sound driver : K. Zikil-Hide Ishibashi
Producer : Noriyuki Takasaki
Exective producer : Sakae Nakamura
>>> OTHER GAME RESOURCES
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Game's rom.
Machine's picture.