Опасное семя: Вертикальный шутер 1989 года

1989 video game

Dangerous Seed (デンジャラスシード, Denjarasu Shīdo) is a 1989 vertically scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by Namco. Controlling one of three different starships, the player is tasked with destroying an alien race known as the Danger Seed before they wipe out all of mankind. Each ship has their own set of weapons and abilities, such as shots that dissolve enemies and target seeking projectiles, and can sustain multiple hits before being destroyed. The player's ships can also combine into a new ship, the Moon Diver, featuring a stronger shield and additional weapons. It ran on the Namco System 1 hardware. The game was designed by Yuichiro Shinozaki, a character artist for Namco's own Babylonian Castle Saga franchise, with music composed by Yoshinori Nagumo. Early versions of the game were known as Kristallkern, which remains in game during the end credits. A conversion for the Sega Mega Drive was released a year later in 1990, which included new features such as additional stages and an arranged soundtrack. Dangerous Seed was met with mixed reviews from critics — although the game was praised for its graphics, fast paced gameplay and soundtrack, it was criticized for lacking originality and for being unable to stand out among other similar games. Some reviewers stated it was one of the better shoot'em ups released for the Mega Drive.

Dangerous Seed is a vertically scrolling shooter video game. The player controls a fleet of ships — Alpha, Beta and Gamma — as they must wipe out the alien race known as Danger Seed before they destroy all of mankind. The game spans twelve stages, known as "tubes" in game, each taking place in planets found in the Solar System. It was designed by Yuichiro Shinozaki, who was a character designer for the Babylonian Castle Saga franchise. The game was originally known as Kristallkern in early prototypes, with the end credits still retaining this name — the credits also hint at a follow up with a vague "To be continued" message, however a sequel was never released. The soundtrack was composed by Yoshinori Nagumo, which was re released by Victor Entertainment in 1990. A Sega Mega Drive conversion was released exclusively in Japan on December 18, 1990, adding new features such as additional stages and an arranged soundtrack.

In Japan, Game Machine listed Dangerous Seed on their January 15, 1990 issue as being the seventeenth most successful table arcade game of the year. The Mega Drive version in particular was met with mixed reviews, being praised for its colorful graphics, fast paced gameplay and soundtrack yet criticized for its lack of originality and being unable to stand out among other shooters in the market. Japanese publication Famitsu liked the game's fast paced gameplay, colorful graphics and soundtrack, In their brief review, Raze liked the game's later background designs and fast paced action. French publication Génération 4 praised the game's "beautiful" graphics, energetic music and realistic sound effects. They also found the power up items to be "nothing new" and disliked its gameplay for being tedious and uninteresting. Power Play soured towards the gameplay for not adding anything particularly new to the genre, saying that it only stuck to the bare basic mechanics established in previous vertically scrolling shooters.