Arcade Video game published 26 years ago:
Daioh (c) 1993 Sammy.
An excellent vertically scrolling space shoot'em up. Excellent graphics, multi-layer scrolling, big sprites (especially bosses), and an extreme difficulty that continued to increase from easy to insane the farther along you went without getting killed.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : X1-010 (@ 16 Mhz)
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6
=> Ion Shot, Laser Shot, Missile Shot, Fire Bomb, Mega Beam, Atomic Bomb
- TRIVIA -
Developed by Athena, Daioh was released in July 1993.
The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Great King'.
In 1997, Daioh's staff established a new company, called 'Warashi', their first game was "Shienryu". The game is remarkably similar, and feature an identical power-up system, and the first level is a remake of the first stage of Daioh.
A pseudo-sequel to the game entitled "Daioh Gale" appears as the sample level in Athena's 1994 title, Dezaemon - Kaite Tsukutte Asoberu.
A follow up to 'Daioh Gale', 'Daioh Gale ver.2' appears as the sample level in Athena's 1996 title, Dezaemon Plus.
A parody of the game entitled 'Daioh-P' appears as a sample level in Athena's 1997 Sega Saturn release, Dezaemon 2.
Mark Carmichael holds the official record for this game with 144,900 points on July 15, 2006.
- STAFF -
Programmer : Tsutomu Tabata
Graphic designers : Undead Tama, Kata Chumuri, Numa
Composer : Sho
Sound driver : K. Zikil-Hide Ishibashi
Producer : Noriyuki Takasaki
Exective producer : Sakae Nakamura
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