#aleste

[arcadebroke]

[videogamesskies]

Super Aleste: Space Megaforce (SNES) (1992)

[pixelskylines]

Super Aleste / Space Megaforce (SNES)

[aaronkraten]

Playing Aleste 2 for the msx2

This evening.

Made by Compile in 1989.

Running this on the recalbox jamma

Very cool music and gameplay.

Zanac from compile was the gateway shmup that got me hooked on the genre.

Stoked to catch up with older shooters I missed that did not arrive in the US.

[bancho-zx]

// Aleste 2 | アレスタ2 // MSX2 // Title

[gamevecanti]

Japanese magazine ad for "Super Aleste"/"Space Megaforce" (SFC).

[gamemories]

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Senxin Aleste

For quite some time, the Aleste series was dead and buried thanks to the bankruptcy of developer Compile in the early 2000s. Nearly twenty years later, however, it was rescued by M2, who not only published an emulated compilation of older Sega titles, but also developed the brand-new GG Aleste 3 for Game Gear spec hardware. Not long after, they developed Senxin Aleste (pronounced “Senjin Alesta”, or “War Blade Aleste”), somewhat bafflingly released as an arcade exclusive in mid-2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. While GG Aleste 3 was developed as a retro throwback, Senxin Aleste updates the series to modern conventions, overhauling it as a bullet hell shooter, though one that aims to be beginner friendly. It was directed by Daisuke Koizumi, an ex-programmer from Cave who also created the doujin shooter Rolling Gunner, and published for Sega’s All.Net P-ras MULTI arcade system.

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