Gun Frontier (c) 1990 Taito Corp.
A vertically scrolling shooter from Taito.

>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Taito F2 System hardware
Game ID : F2-System No. 09
Prom Stickers : C71
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 320 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 4096
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

>>> TRIVIA
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This game is known outside Japan as 'Gun & Frontier'.
This game was inspired from the Anime series of the same name by Leiji Matsumoto. It is a hilarious, thrilling and outrageous story that takes place on a lawless planet in deep space. In a wild land where the dust of sand swirls, two totally different men, Harlock 'the Quick Draw' and Tochiro 'the Master Swordsman,' meet a mysterious woman called Sinunora and travel together. 'This odd threesome gets involved in thrilling and outrageous brawls and seems to attract one fight after another!'.
S. Yagawa paid homage to this game by programming 'Battle Garegga', which has a lot of features taken from 'Gun Frontier' (not only design, you can destroy scenery, weapon and bombs system, etc).
Leiji Matsumoto, in his series 'Cosmo Warrior Zero', recycles the 'Gun Frontier' settings for the 'Silvana' character. Since the Sony PlayStation tie-in was produced by Taito, the planet looks like planet 'Gloria', the one featured in this Taito shmup.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Runark, Gun Frontier - PCCB-00060) on 21/04/1991.
Zuntata Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Zuntata History L'ab-normal 1st - ZTTL-0038) on 01/04/1999.

>>> GAME SERIES
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1. Gun Frontier (1991)
2. Metal Black (1991)

>>> DESIGNERS / PROGRAMMERS / STAFF
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Sound composer : Yasuhisa Watanabe (Yack.)

>>> GAME PORTS TO OTHER SYSTEMS
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* Consoles :
Sega Saturn (1997)
Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, 'Taito Memories Vol. 2')
Microsoft XBOX (2006, 'Taito Legends 2')
Sony PlayStation 2 (2006, 'Taito Legends 2')
* Computers :
PC [CD-ROM] (2006, 'Taito Legends 2')

>>> OTHER GAME RESOURCES
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Game's rom.