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Fast Striker 1.5

Dreamcast "bullet hell" shooter goes gold.

For Immediate Release

Hannover – December 8th,2010

NG:DEV.TEAM, Germany based game developer announces that Fast Striker 1.5 for Sega Dreamcast™ is gone gold. Both Fast Striker 1.5 Regular Edition and Fast Striker 1.5 Limited Edition will be released on 2010-12-21.

About FAST STRIKER 1.5

FAST STRIKER (URL: http://www.faststriker.com) is a 2D bullet hell arcade shooting game with emphasis on scoring originally developed for NEO·GEO™. The game lets the player choose between 4 game modes with different scoring systems and difficulty. NOVICE Mode for beginners, ORIGINAL Mode for classic Shoot' em Up players, MANIAC Mode for experienced players and OMAKE Mode for experts. It features six stages of excellent 2D arcade game play with over 40 unique enemy types, super smooth 3D scrolling backgrounds, huge CGI bosses. Fast Striker is considered the most advance NEO·GEO™ game ever. It features with 1560 MEGS the biggest megabit count ever since the beginning of NEO·GEO™ games and has 4 times more bullets and enemies on screen than every NEO·GEO™ game before.

Since October 2010, Fast Striker is available in several Japanese Game Centers in Tokyo/Japan such like the famous Try Tower Arcade in Akihabara.

Fast Striker 1.5 Limited Edition features an additionally soundtrack CD with original and arranged music tracks. The soundtrack includes 4 exclusive tracks.

The Dreamcast version Fast Striker 1.5 includes a new game mode called OMAKE

Videos:

New OMAKE mode:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovLLLuItLS8&fmt=35

Normal game modes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr96liMQIis&fmt=35

Key Features

Game:

• 6 carefully designed stages

• 4 game modes: Novice/Original/Maniac/Omake (sorted by difficulty)

• Maniac/Omake mode offers an elaborate scoring system with enough depth to provide hundreds of hours playtime

• Up to 180 enemy bullets simultaneously on screen

• 40+ fully animated CGI enemies

• 6+ huge fully animated boss enemies

• 3D scrolling CGI backgrounds

• Constant 60 fps

• Dynamic difficulty rank system which kicks in for experienced players

• Internet ranking via code http://ranking.ngdevteam.com/

• The original soundtrack offers 17 tracks with 25 minutes of melodic ambient tunes and psychedelic trance beats to suite the on screen action.

• The arranged soundtrack of the Limited Edition offers 21 tracks with 52 minutes.

Accessories (Dreamcast™) :

• VMU

• VGA

• Original pad

• Arcade stick

Content of Orignal Soundtrack / Arrange Soundtrack

Original

01 Main Title 3:04

02 City Blues 3:48

03 City Guard 1:16

04 Shakedown 3:08

05 Geigaz 2:19

06 Tracklights 3:34

07 Rugan 2:15

08 Space Zone 3:48

09 Magnandu 2:05

10 Mesma 2:42

11 Ruckzuck 1:50

12 Hypno 3:05

13 Guardian 2:22

14 Mesmerizer 2:24

15 Hypnotizer 1:54

16 Game Over 0:46

17 Credits 3:55

Bonus / Arrange

18 Hard Boss 1:10

19 Space Melody 2:44

20 Happy Striker 3:11

21 3rd Eyesight 2:40

Playtime: 54:06 minutes

About NG:DEV.TEAM

NG:DEV.TEAM (URL: http://www.ngdevteam.com) is founded by the brothers Timm Hellwig and René Hellwig We are a 2D game developer who is specialized in arcade style games. Since 2010 our games are installed in Japanese Arcade Centers.

We are developing commercial video games on various arcade platforms like NEO·GEO™ since 2001 and JAMMA since 2010.

Contact NG:DEV.TEAM press relation: info (at) ngdevteam.com. A full press-kit is available here: http://www.ngdevteam.com/download/faststriker_presskitWEB.zip

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Trademark: NEO·GEO™ is a registered trademark of SNK PLAYMORE Corporation. Our NEO·GEO™ software is not officially licensed, designed, manufactured, distributed or endorsed by SNK/Playmore corp. of Japan. Dreamcast™ is a registered trademark of SEGA Corporation. Our Dreamcast™ software is not officially licensed, designed, manufactured, distributed or endorsed by SEGA Corporation. All other used brand names and trademarks mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.

Copyrights: FAST STRIKER copyright © NG:DEV.TEAM 

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