Arcade Video game published 39 years ago:

Terra Force (c) 1987 Nichibutsu.

A standard shooter. All levels are divided in 2 parts: overworld with vertical orientation and underground with horizontal.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 8 Mhz) Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz) Sound Chips: YM3812 (@ 4 Mhz), (2x) DAC (@ 4 Mhz)

Screen orientation: Horizontal Video resolution: 320 x 240 pixels Screen refresh: 57.00 Hz Palette colors: 2048

Players: 1 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 2 => [A] Shoot, [B] Bomb

- TRIVIA -

Released in December 1987.

Terra Force uses the same innovative overworld/underground and perspective changing gameplay found in Nichibutsu's earlier game "Mag Max".

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (G.S.M. Nichibutsu 1 - D28B0004) on 21/09/1988.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Terra Force power-ups B: bomb power-up L: laser firepower S: speed-up P: force field

- STAFF -

Game designer: Shigeki Fujiwara Game programmers: Kakefu, Shinya Okuda Character designers: Takanori Tanaka, Yuki Yasuda Title designer: Shinji Kubota Sound composer: Noburu Yoshida Sound programmer: Yoshinori Mitta Hardware engineer: Isao Shiki

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES: [JP] Sony PlayStation 4 [PSN] (nov.17, 2016) "Arcade Archives - Terra Force [Model CUSA-04470]"

Player layout in our catalog: 2P alt.

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 Terra Force. 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.

Terra Force is filed in our catalog as a 1987 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P alt.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Shooter.

Credit line lists Nichibutsu as developer.