Ludography
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1988 · Namco · Horizontally scrolling shooter · Shooter

Ordyne

Timed NEC exclusive

Ordyne is a horizontal shooter arcade, officially described as a "comical action shooter". Controlling the genius scientist Yuichiro Tomari and his assistant Sunday Chin, the players will attempt to rescue Tomari's fiancée from the evil Dr. Kubota.

Released
1988
Platforms
ArcadeNintendo SwitchTurboGrafx-16Wii
Genres
Horizontally scrolling shooterShooter
Developers
Namco
Publishers
Namco
Perspective
Side view
Themes
Comedy
Country
Japan
Age ratings
ESRB ECERO A
Languages
English
Composers
Shinji Hosoe

About

Ordyne is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed and published by Namco. It was released as an arcade video game in September 1988, only in Japan. A conversion to the TurboGrafx-16 was released in 1989 and internationally in March 1990 by NEC.

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

Players take control of the genius scientist Yuichiro Tomari and his Chinese assistant Sunday Chin as they attempt to rescue Tomari's fiancée, Kana Aibara from the evil Dr. Kubota and his army of robotic minions. The enemies all follow preset patterns, and killing a group of smaller ones or a larger one leaves crystals behind that can be collected and exchanged for special weapons, extra lives, and even more crystals at a shop or by defeating a robot. This game has a total of seven levels, and a boss is fought at the end of each one. One hit will kill Yūichirō and Sunday, unless either of them has a power-up cameo appearance of Pac-Man which can tank one hit for the characters.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Ordyne as the second most successful table arcade unit of October 1988.

Legacy

The game was included in Namco Museum Volume 4 for the Sony PlayStation. The TurboGrafx-16 version was released on the Wii's Virtual Console in 2007. Hamster Corporation released the arcade version outside Japan for the first time as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in October 2022.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Arcade1 September 1988Japan
TurboGrafx-168 September 1989Japan · North America 31 December 1990
Wii7 May 2007North America · Japan 21 August 2007

Editions and related releases

Included in
Namco Museum Vol. 4
Ported as
Arcade Archives: Ordyne

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