1986 · Konami · Shooter · Adventure
Star Soldier
Nintendo console exclusive
Star Soldier is a 1986 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Entertainment System and MSX. It is the first game in the Star Soldier series. The player pilots the starship "Caesar", traveling through space stations occupied by powerful supercomputers known as "Starbrains" who threaten the galactic empire. Star Soldier greatly resembles the earlier arcade game Star Force.
- Released
- 13 June 1986
- Platforms
- MSXNESNintendo 3DSWii
- Genres
- ShooterAdventureArcade
- Developers
- KonamiHudson Soft
- Publishers
- KonamiHudson Soft
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
About
Star Soldier is a series of scrolling shooters mainly developed by Hudson Soft. Konami has owned the rights to the series since their absorption of Hudson Soft in 2012.
The eponymous first game, Star Soldier, was released in 1986 for the MSX and NES, and lead to a series of sequels that continued on various gaming systems. Star Soldier itself was re-released with little change in the compilation Caravan Shooting Collection for the Super Famicom in 1995, received enhanced remakes for both the GameCube and PlayStation 2 in 2003, and a different remake for the PlayStation Portable in 2005. The Nintendo 64 got an exclusive release called Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth in 1998, while the latest installment of the series was released on the Wii as a WiiWare game in 2008. In addition, the TurboGrafx-16 games Super Star Soldier, Final Soldier, Soldier Blade and Star Parodier have been re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console and on the Japanese PC Engine's Best Collection lineup for the PSP.
›Story
A strange and evil presence is lurking in space. Crushing everything in its path, destroying spaceships full of innocent people, the brutal Starbrain is threatening the entire Galactic Empire. Starbrain, a giant computer programmed only for destruction, inhabits an enormous space station, guarded by enemy ships and robot creatures. To penetrate the station is a job for the most skillful and experienced Star Soldier - you!
You'll be piloting Caesar, the fastest fighter ship in the Galactic Fleet, with an awesome arsenal of weapons at your finger-tips. Only you can end the fearsome Starbrain's spree of destruction, and restore peace to the galaxy!
Keywords
- shoot 'em up
- virtual console
- vertical scrolling
- nintendo switch online
- wii virtual console
- nintendo 3ds virtual console
Media
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Title IDsone per regional release, with its latest update
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- Caravan Shooting CollectionHudson Best Collection Vol. 5: Shooting Collection
- Ported as
- Famicom Mini: Star Soldier
- Remade as
- Hudson Selection Vol. 2: Star Soldier
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Collections2 collections
Platform libraries
Development status
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- Cancelled games for NEC consolesFifth Generation › PC-FX
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