Starblade (c) 1991 Namco.
A 3-D space shoot'em up featuring 2 separate missions; the first is to destroy the planet 'Red Eye' while the second is to wipe out the enemy fleet and their leader. The game's sit-down cabinet featured a seat that vibrated whenever the player was hit, either by incoming fire or by enemy objects such as ships, asteroids etc. The yoke joystick - which had a fire button situated at the top of the stick, underneath where the player's thumb sits - was very similar in appearance and feel to that used in Atari's 1983 wireframe classic, 'Star Wars (Atari)'.

>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Namco System 21 hardware
Game ID : ST
Main CPU : (2x) 68000 (@ 12.288 Mhz), M6809 (@ 3.072 Mhz), HD63705 (@ 2.048 Mhz), (2x) TMS32025 (@ 24 Mhz)
Sound Chips : C140 (@ 32 Khz), YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 496 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 32768
Players : 1
Control : stick
Buttons : 4

>>> TRIVIA
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Starblade was a very obvious influence on both the visual appearance and gameplay of the superb Nintendo Super NES game, ' Starfox'- written in the UK by Argonaut Software.
Victor Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Starblade & Galaxian3 - Project Dragon : Namco Game Sound Express Vol.06 - VICL-15009) on 21/03/1992.

>>> GAME SERIES
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1. Starblade (1991)
2. Starblade 2 - ''Starblade : Operation Blue Planet'' (2002)

>>> DESIGNERS / PROGRAMMERS / STAFF
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Chief director : H. Nakatani
Assistant director : K. Kobayashi
Programmers : Norimasa Matsuura, Y. Saitoh, Y. Ohmori
Music and sound effects : Shinji Hosoe
Visual director : W. Yanagawa
Visual designers : N. Kumagai, M. Tejima, M. Kimura
Industrial designer : N. Yoshimatsu
Mechanical designers : S. Kanebako, H. Igarashi, T. Wakayama, J. Uchida
Electrical designers : M. Yamada, O. Morita, M. Ito
Producers : K. Sawano, M. Yamada

>>> GAME PORTS TO OTHER SYSTEMS
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* Consoles :
Sega Mega-CD (1994)
Panasonic 3DO (1994)
Sony PlayStation (1995, 'Starblade Alpha')
Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, as a bonus game in 'Tekken 5')

>>> OTHER GAME RESOURCES
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Game's rom.
Machine's picture.