Fantasy Zone
Fantasy Zone is a 1986 arcade video game by Sega, and the first game in the Fantasy Zone series. It was later ported to a wide variety of consoles, including the Master System. The player controls a sentient spaceship named Opa-Opa who fights an enemy invasion in the titular group of planets. The game contains a number of features atypical of the traditional scrolling shooter. The main character, Opa-Opa, is sometimes referred to as Sega's first mascot character.
| Fantasy Zone | |
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Japanese flyer | |
| Developer(s) | Sega |
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| Designer(s) | Yoji Ishii |
| Programmer(s) | Shuichi Katagi |
| Artist(s) | Masaki Kondo |
| Composer(s) | Hiroshi Kawaguchi |
| Series | Fantasy Zone |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Master System, Nintendo Entertainment System, MSX, PC Engine, Game Gear, X68000, Saturn, Mobile phone, Nintendo Switch, Sega Genesis Mini 2 |
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| Genre(s) | Scrolling shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Arcade system | Sega System 16A |
The game design and main character have many similarities to the earlier TwinBee, and both are credited with establishing the cute 'em up subgenre. It also popularized the concept of a boss rush, a stage where the player faces multiple previous bosses again in succession. Numerous sequels were made over the years.