Target Earth
Target Earth is a space shooting game set in the future with Earth under attack by robots. The protagonist of the game is a pilot of a mech robot which can either walk on planet surfaces or fly in space. There…
Target Earth is a shooter developed by Masaya, released 16 March 1990 on Wii and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
What Target Earth is
Target Earth is a shooter game developed by Masaya and released in 1990. It was published by Dreamworks. It is available on Wii and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
The premise, in the publisher's words
It is the year 2201 and expanding technologies have given man the power to live anywhere in space. Amidst this backdrop, the story of Target Earth begins with a war between Earth (and its colonies) against a cyborg army returning from the farthest reaches of space. In the game's early stages, the nature or purpose of these cybernetic adversaries, named Chron, is unknown. However, it is later revealed that Chron are the survivors of a failed space expedition (Outer Space Expeditionary Party) sent by Earth a hundred years earlier. The Earth Defense League fights to defend Earth. The heart of the defensive movement is the Assault Suit - a twelve-foot tall armored battle machine with awesome…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction.
How it was received
Target Earth holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1990 averaged 65, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
Cheats and codes
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Official trailer
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