Zero Wing
Zero Wing is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game, notable for a poorly translated English version for Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) that spawned the "All your base are belong to us" Internet meme. Gameplay…
Zero Wing is an arcade developed by Toaplan, released 1 July 1989 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Arcade, Linux and Mac.
What Zero Wing is
Zero Wing is an arcade game developed by Toaplan and released in 1989. It was published by Bitwave Games. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Arcade, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in 2101, the game follows the signing of a peace treaty between the United Nations and CATS, an alien cyborg. However, CATS breaks the covenant and takes control of the Japanese space colonies. The protagonist Trent leads a ZIG space craft, which had managed to escape from the mothership destroyed by CATS, with the aim to defeat enemy forces, avenge the mothership and its crew and liberate the Earth.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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