 Screenshot from the game Fantasy Zone. Note the bright colors and unique enemies. Fantasy Zone is a surreal arcade game created by Sega in 1986. It was later ported to a wide variety of consoles, including the Sega Master System and the Sega Game Gear. The player controls a sentient spaceship named Opa-opa who fights nonsensical enemies in settings atypical of the traditional scrolling shooter, thus it is considered a cute 'em up. Image File history File links Screenshot from the game Fantasy Zone. ...
Image File history File links Screenshot from the game Fantasy Zone. ...
Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ...
Sega Corporation ) is an international video game software and hardware developing company, and a former home computer and console manufacturer. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Sega Master System (SMS for short) is an 8-bit cartridge-based gaming console that was manufactured by Sega. ...
The Sega Game Gear was Segas first portable gaming system. ...
Opa-Opa is the main character from the bizarre Fantasy Zone series of video games created by Sega. ...
Scrolling shooters are a type of video game, a subgenre of shoot em up . ...
Galaga, a famous shoot-em-up from 1981. ...
In the game, the player's ship is placed in a level with a number of bases to destroy. When all the bases are gone, the stage boss appears; when the boss is defeated, the player moves on to the next level. There are two buttons: shoot and bomb; the normal shot is generally useful though weak, while bombs are powerful though of narrow use. One major difference between this and many other shooters is that the player can turn around and fly the other way; the screen will scroll along with the player. There is also a shop that occasionally can be accessed. The player can buy items and weapons from it using coins from defeated enemies.
The game Space Harrier, also by Sega and released the previous year, supposedly takes place in "the Fantasy Zone" as well (Space Harrier begins the phrase "Welcome to the 'Fantasy Zone'! Get Ready!"). It includes the same bright pastel color scheme, although the game scrolls into the screen as opposed to horizontally. However, this may be just a coincidence. A game called Space Fantasy Zone was supposed to launch to the dead PC Engine CD console, but it was cancelled before completion. It combines the world of Fantasy Zone with the back camera and controls from Space Harrier. Although it's not in its final stage, a ROM can be found lurking the net and run in a PCE emulator. Space Harrier is a forward scrolling shooter game, released by Sega in 1985. ...
Trivia
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Content in the trivia section should be integrated into other appropriate areas of the article. One of the Gear in Sonic Riders is named the Opa-Opa, a reference to this game. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...
An Opa-Opa figurine is available in the capsule machines in the Dreamcast game Shenmue. Shenmue ) (IPA: ) (2000) is an action-adventure/RPG/FREE for the Sega Dreamcast, produced and directed by Yu Suzuki of Sega-AM2. ...
In the Sega Master System game Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars, the goal of the second stage is to find Opa-Opa. The Sega Master System (SMS for short) is an 8-bit cartridge-based gaming console that was manufactured by Sega. ...
In the Sound test screen for the Sega Master System adaptation of Quartet (arcade_game), Opa-opa can be seen flying horizontally across the top of the screen. Sound Test is a function built into the options screen of many video games. ...
The Sega Master System (SMS for short) is an 8-bit cartridge-based gaming console that was manufactured by Sega. ...
Quartet is an arcade game that was released by Sega in the mid-1980s. ...
In Phantasy Star Online for Sega Dreamcast (2000) Opa Opa was a secret Mag. Mags followed you around and when fully charged could cast status effects on your character, bring you back to life, and launch powerful attacks. Phantasy Star Online (PSO) was an online title for Sega Dreamcast to be released in 2000. ...
Several of the enemies from Fantasy Zone II appear as attack waves for the final boss in the cult Dreamcast game Segagaga This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
In the Muppet Babies episode, It's Just a Pretendo, Baby Gonzo, Baby Animal, and Baby Miss Piggy were playing Fantasy Zone. During there imagination in Fantasy Zone, Gonzo and Piggy both fought over the controls to the Opa-Opa, while Animal spotted an enemy approaching and destroying the Opa-Opa. Jim Hensons Muppet Babies is an American animated television series that aired from 1984 to 1991 on CBS. Loosely based on a sequence in the Muppet film The Muppets Take Manhattan, in which Miss Piggy imagined what it would be like if she and Kermit the Frog grew up...
In Arnold Palmer's Tournament Golf for Sega Genesis, the Opa-Opa is seen by some scrolling texts, and also acts as the selector icon for music and sound options. A demo version of Fantasy Zone is also hidden in this game.
Series Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ...
The Sega Master System (SMS for short) is an 8-bit cartridge-based gaming console that was manufactured by Sega. ...
Sony MSX 1, Model HitBit-10-P MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s. ...
NES redirects here. ...
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Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ...
The Sega Master System (SMS for short) is an 8-bit cartridge-based gaming console that was manufactured by Sega. ...
NES redirects here. ...
Sunsoft is a video game development company founded in 1985 as a division of Sun Corporation, itself a division of Sun Electronics, or Sun Denshi (サン電å) in Japan (its U.S. subsidiary operated under the name Sunsoft of America, though games they published showed a logo that read only SUNSOFT). ...
The Sega Master System (SMS for short) is an 8-bit cartridge-based gaming console that was manufactured by Sega. ...
The Sega Game Gear was Segas first portable gaming system. ...
Game Information Super Fantasy Zone was the last addition to the Fantasy Zone series. ...
The Sega Mega Drive was a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan (1988), Europe (1990) and most of the rest of the world. ...
Notes The Japanese and English versions for the NES are different from each other.
There was an unreleased game in the series called Space Fantasy Zone that was to have been released on the NEC PC Engine around the year 1990 that was to have finally bridged the gap between the Fantasy Zone series and the Space Harrier series by having a gameplay similar to Space Harrier, but have the layouts of the stages to be directly based on their Fantasy Zone counterparts. The game was never released because NEC developed the game without first getting permission from Sega to use the Fantasy Zone property, when the game was finished they contacted Sega who promptly told them not to go any further with it. Although the game was never released, a gameplay video of a prototype of the game has been found. An ISO of the SuperCD does exist and has been leaked online in the past. The PC Engine was a video game console released by NEC, a Japanese company, in 1987. ...
External links - Fantasy Zone at MobyGames
- Fantasy Zone at Hardcore Gaming 101
- "The Fantasy Zone Sky" A rather detailed website on the Fantasy Zone series
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