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Kobayashi Maru: Final

An Atari Jaguar CD homebrew game that is heavily inspired by Konami's arcade game Time Pilot. Kobayashi Maru is a 50/60 fps rotary action shooter for the Atari Jaguar games console and was written utilising a…

31 December 2012

Kobayashi Maru: Final is an arcade, released 31 December 2012 on Atari Jaguar CD.

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What Kobayashi Maru: Final is

Kobayashi Maru: Final was released in 2012. It was published by RGCD.DEV. It is available on Atari Jaguar CD only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Xu approached the balcony of his presidential suite in his usual calm and purposeful manner. This time was different, however. As he looked out to the stars for what was sure to be the last time, he knew he had only one card left to play and that it offered no realistic hope of success. The Ebil Alliance was determined to take the whole galaxy… their invading forces too great in number and their simultaneous attack on all four worlds impossible to defend. As he raised his finger and gestured towards the hangar below, signaling the launch of the Tetrad’s prototype warp ship, he knew his coalition of the last four free worlds in the system could not hope to survive such an onslaught.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Kobayashi Maru: Final launched on 31 December 2012, within three weeks of DmC: Devil May Cry, Game Dev Tycoon, ArcheAge and Kentucky Route Zero.

Released around the same time: DmC: Devil May Cry, Game Dev Tycoon, ArcheAge, Kentucky Route Zero.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Kobayashi Maru: Final come out?
Kobayashi Maru: Final was released on 31 December 2012 for Atari Jaguar CD.

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