![]() ![]() Several sites had completely bare-bones information little more than the publisher and date of release. Or offered a copy of the game for sale, which I obviously don't need at this point. Mostly, I was given the "cheat" that once I beat the game, I could play again with a different sprite for my ship. Further searching returned much less useful results. I still knew almost nothing about this Star Soldier, aside from the fact that he seemed to be composed of equal parts Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, Shinobu from Dancougar, and generic 80s sci-fi anime costume design. However, while interesting, the article regarded the games themselves and not their story. Making him, I would suppose, the eponymous Star Soldier. As I learned, the game was part of the Star Soldier series, and this mystery man had previously appeared on the Japanese Star Soldier box. As it happens, my good friend and yours, Kurt Kalata had talked about the game on his awesome site, Hardcore Gaming 101. ![]() So, seeing no trace of the man who was presumably piloting Starship Hector in the game itself, the next step was to look for information on the Internet. However, it unfortunately has another common feature with most early shooters: a complete lack of story sequences. Aside from featuring both air and ground targets, like Xevious, it also switches between vertical and horizontal stages. Upon getting the game home, I fired it up, and found it to be a fairly enjoyable shooter. Who, then, was this man, and what sort of game did he star in? I'm sure most Bitmob readers are aware of the infamous Mega Man 1 box, for example. Most interesting was the fact that this fellow had retained an anime style in an era where games tended to new (and often horrible) box art drawn in a Western style for US release. Certainly, NES box art was often less than representational, but I couldn't help wondering about the buff dude in an action pose jumping past ancient ruins and a "futuristic" grid pattern. After all, I really didn't have anything else to go on. The object of my curiosity was the cover art. Why, then, did I buy it? Very simply, it was only $2 and I was curious. Of course, it was loose without box or manual, so I had no clue to even the genre. The fact of the matter is, I'd never heard of this game, and knew nothing about it. A few years ago, I picked up a NES title called Starship Hector. ![]()
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