Aleste(アレスタ,Aleste?) is the first game in the Aleste series of video games. Developed by the Japanese developer Compile and released in 1988, it has been seen on the MSX and Sega Master System. Namcos Pac-Man was a hit, and became a universal phenomenon. ... Compile was a Japanese video game company founded in 1983. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Sony MSX 1, Model HitBit-10-P MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s. ... The Sega Master System (SMS for short) is an 8-bit cartridge-based gaming console that was manufactured by Sega. ...
The original version of Aleste plays similarly to Compile's shooter Zanac, as it also has an AI system that increases the enemies' variety, aggressiveness and number. It also shares the same kind of power-up system. The major difference is that it features a story where the player defends a planet from a plant monsters invasion, and the plot develops with cut-screens between levels. Zanac is an arcade-style video game; a vertically scrolling shoot em up. ...
It was originally released for the MSX. The later port to the Master System included some level changes, and no story cut-scenes. The difficulty was noticeably higher raised. The Master System version was known outside of Japan as Power Strike. It was released in America as a mail-only limited edition game, in a black and white cover (with the classic checkered SMS art box patterns). In Europe and Australia it was sold through retailers, with a colored cover.
Alestes, an apprentice sorcerer and sometime owl, flaps by in mystic shades of blue and gray.
Alestes must complete each level sequentially, and his approved flight plan won't take him above the treetops.
Agony falls miserably short of innovative gameplay; throughout each level Alestes gathers weapons and spells to aid him in fighting not only his lesser opponents but the tougher-to-kill level guardians found at the end of each earth-hugging flyby.
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