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Gaiares
Sign in to saveis a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Telenet Japan and published by Renovation for the Sega Genesis in 1990. It was one of the first 8Mb cartridge games on the Genesis. Its title combined Gaia (Mother Earth) and the suffix "less" (Res), as the Earth has been lost to pollution in the far future according to the game's plot (thus making mankind "Earthless").
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Gaiares is a horizontal-scrolling shoot em' up released for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis in 1990. The game bears a striking mechanic similarity to that of the R-Type series, alongside those of other well-known Shoot Em' Ups such as Gradius and Thunder Force, all of which it was trying to compete against.
- Released
- 1990
- Genres
- Shooter
- Platforms
- Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Telenet Japan
- Publisher
- Tec Toy
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video game
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Developer
- Telenet Japan
- Platform
- Sega Genesis
- Game mode
- single-player video game
- Distribution format
- ROM cartridge
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- publication date
- 1990-12-26
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is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Telenet Japan and published by Renovation for the Sega Genesis in 1990. It was one of the first 8Mb cartridge games on the Genesis. Its title combined Gaia (Mother Earth) and the suffix "less" (Res), as the Earth has been lost to pollution in the far future according to the game's plot (thus making mankind "Earthless").
==Plot== In the year 3008 Earth has become a toxic dump ravaged by careless humans, leaving an uninhabitable, polluted wasteland. The powerful alien space pirates Gulfer, led by the evil Queen ZZ Badnusty, plan to harvest the pollution to create weapons of mass destruction. The United Star Cluster of Leezaluth sent a warning to Earth about their plans, stating that if they could not stop them, Leezaluth would be forced to supernova Earth's sun to avoid war with Gulfer; but if humans succeeded, Leezaluth would use their technology to restore Earth to its former beauty.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gaiares” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.