Gulkave

Sega · 1986

Compile's 1986 horizontal shooter, and among the most technically ambitious things on the SG-1000: thirty acts, each with its own backdrop, against the eight fortresses of the Gulbas Empire. Instead of lives lost on contact there is a barrier bar that drains away, and a stack of power-ups that Compile would keep refining until Zanac and Aleste.

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Format

My card

Platform

Sega SG-1000 / SC-3000

Product code

C-63

Publisher

Sega

Year

1986

Hardware

32K ROM + 2K RAM

Loads straight into SE3K, an emulator of the real hardware: Z80 CPU, TMS9918A video and SN76489 sound, with the CRT picture reproduced by the shaders. Nothing to install.