Ball Bullet Gun: Survival Game Simulation

Ball Bullet Gun: Survival Game Simulation

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Developer(s) Betop[1]
Publisher(s) I'Max[2]
Composer(s) Dota Ando[1]
Yoshiyuki Ishii[1]
Platform(s) Super Famicom
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Modern turn-based strategy[2]
Mode(s) Single-player
Multiplayer

Ball Bullet Gun: Survival Game Simulation (ボール・ブレット・ガン サバイバルゲーム)[3] is a Super Famicom video game that was released in 1995 to an exclusively Japanese market. A translation patch was released in 2004 that rendered this video game into English.[4]

Summary

Simulating Japanese survival war games, players must survive an assault from the bad guys.[5] The closest equivalent that North American culture has to this game is paintball.[5] Each character is assigned a Japanese code name and a main weapon by the player himself. Players can only move up to a certain amount of squares per turn and can only be hit a certain number of times before being killed.[4] The game itself is divided into 24 different missions.[4] Victory conditions vary from mission to mission, and may be anything from "kill the leader" to "free the prisoner and return to the escape point.[4]"

Unlike a medieval strategy game, rushing at an opponent with nothing but a knife is the way to get killed.[4] Medium and long-range weapons are the speciality of the game. Battles can take place anywhere from desert islands to office buildings or shopping malls.[4] All the opponents are seen wearing helmets that resemble those of legendary Star Wars villain Darth Vader.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Developer/composer information". SNES Music. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Release information". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  3. "English-Japanese title translation". SuperFamicom.org. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 "Basic overview". Brian Smithson (GameFAQs). Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "General idea of the image/comparison to North American culture". ROMHack.net. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-18.