Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:

Tengai - Sengoku Ace Episode II (c) 1996 Psikyo.

Nice horizontal shoot'em up with 5 selectable characters who have their own storyline and ending.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Motorola 68EC020 (@ 16 Mhz) Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz) Sound Chips: YMF278B (@ 33.8688 Mhz)

Players: 2 Control: 8-Way Joystick Buttons: 2 => Fire, Special

- TRIVIA -

Tengai was released in April 1996.

The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Beyond The Heavens'.

This game is known in Japan as "Sengoku Blade - Sengoku Ace Episode II", which literally means 'Civil War Blade - Civil War Ace Episode II'.

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 3 smileys, and 'THAT all IS all WRONG' appears.

Soundtrack releases (for limited edition): Sengoku Blade / Psikyo [Pony Canyon / Scitron - PCCB-00216 - May 17, 1996]

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Extra Features: if you hold Test Button + PL1 Button 1 during boot, you get extra options in the test menu. A level skip, BG test usually etc...

* Play As Ayin: at the character selection screen, highlight the [?] and press Up(X3), Down(X3), Up(X7) and Ayin will appear.

- STAFF -

Music Composed by: Masaki Izutani

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES: [JP] Sega Saturn (nov.22, 1996; "Sengoku Blade - Sengoku Ace Episode II [Model T-14410G]") [JP] Sony PS2 (dec.02, 2004; "Sengoku Ace & Sengoku Blade [Psikyo Shooting Collection Vol.2] [Model SLPM-62563]") [JP] Sony PS2 (dec.01, 2005; "Sengoku Ace & Sengoku Blade [Psikyo Shooting Collection Vol.2] [Taito Best] [Model SLPM-62563]") [EU] Sony PS2 (dec.02, 2006; "Samurai Aces [Model SLES-53872]")

Player layout in our catalog: 2P sim.

If you are exploring by feel rather than by title, jump from the tags above into the matching genre rooms, or return to the Arcade hall for the full wall.

Open Play on this page to start Tengai (World). Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Tengai (World) is filed in our catalog as a 1996 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P sim.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Shooter.

Credit line lists Psikyo as developer.

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