All your base are belong to us!

Zero Wing is an horizontal shooter game where the player is in control of a ZIG, an escape pod released after its main ship was attacked and destroyed by the evil cyborg CATS, bent on taking over the world.

Set in 2101, the game follows the signing of a peace treaty between the United Nations and CATS, an alien cyborg. However, CATS breaks the covenant and takes control of the Japanese space colonies. The protagonist leads a ZIG spacecraft, which had managed to escape from the mother ship destroyed by CATS, with the aim to defeat enemy forces, avenge the mothership and its crew and liberate the Earth.

Like most games in the genre, there are three color-coded weapons: red (scatter), green (homing) and blue (lasers). Each weapon has three levels of power, and to obtain those, similar upgrades must be collected sequentially. However, what makes the game unique is the ability to use a traction beam to trap an enemy and then throw him against his peers, destroying them.

The European PAL version of the genesis port is known for being the origin of the grammatically incorrect phrase in the English translation, All your base are belong to us, which has since become an internet meme.

Source.

Platform

Sega Genesis/MegaDrive

Developer(s)

Toaplan

Publishers(s)

Sega, Toaplan

Genres(s)

Shooter

JP Release Date

May 31, 1991

EU Release Date

January 1, 1991

MVGL User Score

7.1 by 10 user(s)

MVGL Difficulty

3.0000

Composer(s)

Tatsuya Uemura, Toshiaki Tomisawa, Masahiro Yuge

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10 User(s)

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