Lost In Translation/Pulstar

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Pulstar
Manufacturer	Aicom
Released	1995
Control Method	8-way Joystick 4 Button(s)
Main CPU	Neo-Geo 68000 (@ 12.000 MHz) Z80 (@ 4.000 MHz)
Sound CPU	Stereo YM2610 (@ 8.000 MHz)
Video Details	Raster (Horizontal) 320 x 224 pixels 59.19 Hz 4,096 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	25 ROMs 42,532,864 bytes (40.56 MiB)
MAME ID	pulstar

About The Game

Pulstar is an horizontally scrolling arcade video game shoot-em-up that borrows many of its visual and game-play elements from all three games in Irem's legendary "R-Type" series; including the Beam weapon and R-type's infamous pod attachment. Unlike "R-Type", however, Pulstar's pod cannot be detached from the front of the ship and merely acts as a shield to protect the player's ship.

Pulstar consists of eight challenging levels, with the player able to start the game on any one of the first four.

Additional Technical Information

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2

=> [A] Attack/Charge attack, [B] Restart the move

Trivia

Pulstar was one of the first games on the NEO-GEO to use state-of-the-art SGI rendered graphics like those found in Nintendo Super Famicom's "Donkey Kong Country".

The pre-production name of this game was 'Reaction'.

Tracy Miller holds the official record for this game with 68,350 points.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Pulstar - PCCB-00192) on 21/10/1995.

Staff

Credits

Nenko

M. Yoshida

T. Nagakubo

Naomi

Daikiti

K. Katoku

K. Urahama

K. Okabe

Toshio. I

Yamadasan

Shion

F. Ryuze

Music Composed By

Harumi Fujita

Yasuaki Fujita

Cabinet and Artwork

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  Neo-Geo arcade cabinet.

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  Pulstar marquee.

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  Pulstar flyer.

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  Inside of the Pulstar flyer.

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  Back of the Pulstar flyer.

Ports

Consoles

SNK Neo-Geo CD (1995)

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
PULSTAR	PCCB-00192	1995-10-20	Pony Canyon/Scitron	CD version.

References

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.