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| − | |title = Star Force
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| − | |image = Star Force Title Screen Arcade.png
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| − | |width = 324px;
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| − | |imagecaption = Title screen
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| − | |developer = Tehkan (Tecmo)
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| − | |releasedate = September 1984
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| − | |nextgame = [[Super Star Force]]
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| − | '''Star Force''' is a vertical scrolling shooter by Tehkan (Tecmo). Released in 1984, it's the first entry in the Star Force series. While the arcade original was a moderate success, the 1,000,000+ unit sales of the [[Hudson Soft]] Famicom port resulted in the game gaining a substantial audience and high praise in Japan. The game was initially localized as Mega Force under Video Ware, but later releases by Tehkan kept the original title.
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| − | Predating the likes of [[1942]] and [[Tiger-Heli]], the game was among the first to feature many mechanics and gameplay elements that would become standard in the genre, including modern auto-fire, agile ship movement, hidden bonuses, and pre-planned enemy patterns. In addition the promotional "Caravan" high score competition hosted by Hudson for the Japanese Famicom port served as one of the earliest examples of a competitive shmup event.
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| − | == Gameplay Overview ==
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| − | Star Force is a single-button shooter. The player is only able to fire a basic attack and the initial auto-fire is relatively slow.
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| − | === Controls ===
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| − | * '''A:''' Fire
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| − | * '''A (Hold):''' Auto-fire
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| − | * '''Joystick:''' Movement
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| − | === Characters / Ships / Styles ===
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| − | There is only one ship in Star Force: Final Star. Final Star is noticeably small and agile, being about the same size if not smaller than even basic enemies. This is in contrast to early shmups like Xevious, Super Xevious, or Scramble, and even later contemporaries like Tiger-Heli and 1942.
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| − | === Weapons ===
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| − | Final Star only has two firing modes: a slow auto-fire, and a fast auto-fire.
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| − | === Items ===
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| − | === Scoring ===
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| − | == Strategy ==
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| − | == Story ==
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| − | In the year 2010 of Dimension Almanac, there was a mysterious planet named Gordess which was moving in the darkness of the cosmos for the purpose of mass murder and plunder. Everyone gave up fighting against Gordess because of its awesome power. One day a brave soldier riding a space patroller challenged Gordess to fight. People called this space patroller "Final Star", wishing to be saved. You must bring an end to the murders which have been committees for the past 2000 years.
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| − | == Development History ==
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| − | == Version Differences ==
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| − | == Trivia ==
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| − | * Cool facts and random tidbits go here!
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