Aka: | Space Harrier |
Console: | Nintendo Wii |
TV Standard: | Region Not Set |
Developer(s): | Sega |
Publisher(s): | Sega |
Release Date: | 2012-11-28 |
Players: | 1 |
Co-op: | No |
ESRB: | Not Rated |
Type: | Shooter, Virtual Console |
Space Harrier (Japanese: スペースハリアー, Hepburn: Supēsu Hariā) is a third-person rail shooter developed by Sega Enterprises and released in December 1985. Originally conceived as a realistic military-themed game played in the third-person perspective and featuring a player-controlled fighter jet, technical and memory restrictions resulted in Sega developer Yu Suzuki redesigning it around a jet-propelled human character in a fantasy setting. With an analog flight stick and a cockpit-style cabinet that tilted and rolled during play, it was advertised by Sega as a taikan ("body sensation") arcade game.