Mega Zone
European arcade flyer
Developer(s)Konami
Kosuka
Publisher(s)Konami
Kosuka
Platform(s)Arcade
Release
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)Up to 2 players, alternating turns

Mega Zone is an overhead vertically scrolling shooter released as an arcade video game by Konami in 1983. Mega Zone is similar to Xevious, where the player flies over a landscape of rivers and trees and futuristic enemy emplacements. There are both aerial and ground targets, but unlike Xevious both can be destroyed with the same weapon. At certain points the player can choose either the left or right fork of a branching path.[4]

World record

Yashiro Oda holds the official record for this game with 2,228,650 points.[5]

References

  1. "News: Konami Buys Interlogic". Play Meter. Vol. 10, no. 23. December 1984. p. 9.
  2. "Mega Zone". Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  3. Lewin, Gene (January 15, 1984). "Gene's Judgements: Critiquing AMOA Show Conversions, Dedicated Games". Play Meter. Vol. 10, no. 2. pp. 60–3.
  4. "Mega Zone video game". Killer List of Videogames. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
  5. "Mega Zone video game". arcade-history.com. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
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