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Progear

Progear is an arcade video game developed by CAVE and published by Capcom on the CPS-2 arcade system board in 2001. This was Cave's only horizontal scrolling shooter until Deathsmiles in 2007. The game…

17 January 2001

Progear is a shooter developed by CAVE Interactive, released 17 January 2001 on Arcade.

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What Progear is

Progear is a shooter game developed by CAVE Interactive and released in 2001. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Progear launched on 17 January 2001, within three weeks of Oni, Onimusha: Warlords, Screamer 4x4 and Gauntlet Dark Legacy.

Released around the same time: Oni, Onimusha: Warlords, Screamer 4x4, Gauntlet Dark Legacy.

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When did Progear come out?
Progear was released on 17 January 2001 for Arcade.

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