Fantasy Zone

a.k.a. ファンタジーゾーン

created and published by Sunsoft in 1987-07-20, running on Nintendo Entertainment System

type: shooter
genre: Cartoon
series: Fantasy Zone
perspective: side view
player options: single player

languages: eng

Personal review

The Famicom-port of Fantasy Zone positively surprised me. I didn't expect it to be as colorful and playable as the Master System version, but it is. And it is fast. Sometimes too fast. With full speed boost I more often flew into enemies than I wanted. Two other points that are worth to mention are that it is strange to see a Sega arcade game on the Nintendo Famicom and I wondered how Sunsoft got the license to do it. The other point is that this game can easily be confused with the US NES release from Tengen. But they are actually completely different programs (besides the fact that they are of course very very similar due to both being rather faithful arcade conversions).