General Analysis
Sorcer Striker was created in 1993 by Raizing (now known as Eighting) it is a vertically scrolling shooter arcade game , it was released in Japan and Europe by Able Corporation. It also was Raizing's debut video game.
Where To advance through the levels, the player chooses between a jet fighter and a helicopter, shoots foes from above and below, gathers power-ups, and takes out bosses.
The conflict between mankind and the Master Force, an interplanetary organization, is the central theme of the narrative. A prototype starfighter called the Fighting Ray is sent into action in the hopes of finally defeating the Master Force after the fictional planet Marinarc, the base of operations of the resistance, is destroyed by the Master Force.
In this game the objective of the game is to collect all four pieces of a magic mirror, which, when collected, grants the player's single wish. There are seven vertically scrolling stages in the game. The first four of them are concentrated on gathering mirror pieces, while the latter three are concentrated on reaching the temple. There are two tiers of difficulty. In this method, the story restarts at the beginning with a harder level of difficulty when you finish it.
CPU
The arcade had a Central Processor Motorola 68000 running at 12MHz and Coprocessor Zilog Z80 at 4MHz.
Motorola 68000
Zilog Z80
GPU
Hardware used in the arcade machine is the TOAPLAN VERSION 2
CPU: MC68000P10, TMP68HC000N-16
Sound CPU/MCU: HD647180X0FS6 (Hitachi Z180 Compatible CPU with internal 16k ROM), Z84C0006PEC (Z80), NEC V25
Sound Chips:
YM3812 + YM3014B (DAC)
YM2151 + YM3014B
YM2151 + YM3014B + M6295
YM2151 + YM3012 (DAC) + M6295 + M6295
YMZ280B-F + YAC516-E (DAC)
Graphics Custom 208pin QFP: GP9001 L7A0498 TOA PLAN
As it was stated earlier Sorcer Strikers was launched in 1993, later it was ported to other platforms.
At first it was ported to the X68000 or X68k on the 16th of December of 1994, a computer that was only available in japan by Electronic Arts Victor
AN X68K
it would later be ported to FM Towns, another computer from japan, and also be published by Electronic Arts Victor
FM TOWN computer
And its latest port was In 2017 Sorcer Strikers where it was added to Playstation 4 where an easier mode was implemented to the game.
