#famicom 3d system

ATTACK ANIMAL GAKUEN ( アタックアニマル学園 ) Famicom, 1987

“Attack Animal Gakuen (アタックアニマル学園? lit. Attack Animal Academy) is a shooter developed for the Famicom and published by Pony Canyon late in 1987. The game was clearly inspired by the Sega arcade game Space Harrier; to claim that the two games are similar is a tremendous understatement. Since Sega and Nintendo were rivals, perhaps it was felt that there was little chance for Sega's original "over-the-shoulder" shooter concept would be released on the Famicom. So Scitron & Art must have felt free to take the concept and make it their own.

Rather than being about a boy on an alien world who can fly throughout the sky blasting aliens that advance towards him, Attack Animal Gakuen is about a school girl who can fly throughout the sky blasting angry attack animals that advance towards her. Her mission is to rescue her friend who has been kidnapped and taken hostage by the animals. She must get through six stages and defeat the boss at the end of each of them to complete the challenge.

The game features a 3-D mode which makes use of Nintendo's 3-D Goggles accessory, which very quickly opens and closes shutters over each eye to simulate the perception to two different stereoscopic images. The game was never released outside of Japan. However, no knowledge of Japanese is required to play the game, and can be enjoyed by speakers of any language.”

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Cosmic Epsilon, Famicom 1989

http://www.retrogameage.com/nes/cosmic-epsilon/

“It’s curious to look back on the NES library and see which genres were underrepresented. Despite Nintendo’s absolute dominance of that era not every genre was fully supported in the US with the rail shooter being a prime example. Outside of Tengen’s illegal port of After Burner and 3-D World Runner (if you can even call it a shooter) fans were left wanting. Cosmic Epsilon is clearly patterned after Space Harrier and at least compared to the Famicom port of that game is far better and probably the best rail shooter for the system, not that there was much competition.

Once scheduled for a worldwide release (it was even demoed at CES!) Cosmic Epsilon was cancelled for reasons unknown. This was an interesting title as it was one of the few that supported the Famicom 3d system, a large pair of Virtual Boy style glasses that made you look like a bigger dork than the clowns that bought the power glove. Wisely Nintendo never brought it out over here but the 3d mode is still there in the game much like 3-D World Runner.”

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