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The SG-1000 later received a redesigned model on July 1984 known as the SG-1000 II (or Sega SG-1000 II). It also includes some notable original titles, such as Girl's Garden (the first game programmed by noted Sega developer Yuji Naka). The system mainly includes ports of Sega's arcade games, as well as official Sega ports of games by Namco (such as Galaga) and Activision (such as Pitfall II: Lost Caverns and H.E.R.O.). The system hardware utilizes a Zilog Z80 clone (the HEC 780C) at around 3.5 MHz with 1 KB of RAM for the CPU with 1 KB of main RAM, a Texas Instuments TMS9918A and 16 KB of VRAM for graphics, and a Texas Instruments SN76489A for sound.
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Similar to the Famicom, the console features a top-loading cartridge slot and an attached wired controller (with a joystick and two tall side-mounted buttons) with a port for a second detachable controller. Few clones of the SG-1000 exist, including the officially-licensed Othello Multivision and the Taiwanese bootleg DINA 2-in-1 (which also supported ColecoVision games and was released in North America as the Telegames Personal Arcade). It was sold primarily in Japan, with a few limited markets in Australasia (as the Sega 1000) and Taiwan.
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It was released in Japan on July 15, 1983, on the same day as the release of Nintendo's Family Computer console, and competed with not only that but Epoch's redesigned Cassette Vision (the Cassette Vision Jr.) and Tomy's redesigned Pyūta (the Pyūta Jr.). The cancelled game, Space Fantasy Zone, attempted to bridge the gap between both series.The SG-1000, also known as the Sega SG-1000, the Sega Game 1000 and the SG-1000 Computer Video Game is a third-generation home game console produced by Sega. The game Space Harrier, also by Sega and released the previous year, supposedly takes place in the "Fantasy Zone" as well, including the same bright pastel color scheme, although the game scrolls into the screen as opposed to horizontally. It is often credited with the creation of the "cute 'em up" sub-genre alongside TwinBee, which was also released earlier in 1985 by Konami, like Gradius. It was created as a response to success of Konami's Gradius, which was a smash hit in the arcades upon its release in May 29, 1985.įantasy Zone opted for vibrant pastel-coloured worlds and joyful music rather than the traditional "space" settings of previous shoot 'em ups at the time. The original Fantasy Zone was released for the arcades in Japan on March 1986, and was later ported for a wide variety of consoles, including the Master System. Opa-Opa, the main character and primary protagonist of the series, was the first mascot of SEGA, but would later be replaced by Alex Kidd, and then Sonic the Hedgehog. There is also a shop that Opa-Opa can access to buy items and weapons from it, using coins from defeated enemies.
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The series' gameplay involves the player controlling a sentient spaceship named Opa-Opa, who is placed in a level with a number of bases to destroy with only two buttons: shooting projectiles and dropping bombs, facing the stage boss when all the bases are gone and moving on to the next stage when they're defeated.
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Fantasy Zone (Japanese: ファンタジーゾーン) is a horizontal scroller shoot 'em up video game series created by Sega and designed by Yoji Ishii.