Welcome to the Fantasy Zone.
Bet you don’t know who Sega’s mascot was for a brief time during the '80s. No, we’re not talking about Alex Kidd – we mean Opa-Opa, the slightly bizarre living spaceship from Sega’s oft-overlooked classic shooter Fantasy Zone. And that game is exactly what we have here, thanks to those gurus at Tokyo-based M2.
Fantasy Zone isn’t exactly unknown to those of us who love Sega, but it’s fair to say that the kids today might not be totally familiar with this one. Released in response to another classic shooter, Gradius, Fantasy Zone may look nothing like Konami’s classic at first glance. Indeed, the jarring pastel colours chosen specifically to make the game different to the numerous other space-based blasters of the time may lead to people into not expecting a shooter at all. This is Sega, though; it knew what it was doing, and injecting a bit of trademark Sega ‘blue skies’ charm turned out to be exactly what the genre needed. Along with Konami’s own TwinBee, the 'cute-em-up' genre was born.
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