Blazing Star
- Genres
- Shooter Arcade
- Platforms
- Linux · Wii · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Mac · Android · iOS · Arcade · Neo Geo MVS · Neo Geo AES · Web browser
- Release
- Neo Geo MVS Jan 19, 1998 Neo Geo MVS Jan 19, 1998 Neo Geo AES Jan 26, 1998 Arcade Feb 24, 1998 Android Jul 25, 2012 iOS Jul 26, 2012 PC (Microsoft Windows) Dec 08, 2015 Mac Dec 08, 2015 Linux Dec 08, 2015
- Credits
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S
SNK
DE
D4 Enterprise, Inc
D
DotEmu
Y
Yumekobo
- Board status
- —
About
Blazing Star is a scrolling shooter video game for the Neo Geo home game system. It is the sequel to the acclaimed Neo Geo shooter Pulstar, which was itself a close cousin to the R-Type franchise. A typically hefty Neo Geo ROM at 346 Mb, the game makes extensive use of pseudo-3D prerendered sprites, brief anime and CGI cutscenes (mostly during the intro sequence), and frequent Engrish voice samples and captions. While Blazing Star was superior in many respects to previous shooter games, some fans compare it unfavorably with Pulstar on the basis that Blazing Star was overly easy and there are those that prefer the simpler 2D sprite look over the prerendered sprites that came to dominate many of the more recent shoot-em-ups.
