Star Jacker (スタージャッカー) is a shoot 'em up video game released for Sega System 1 arcade hardware in 1983. Unlike most shoot 'em ups, the player initially controls three space ships, losing one each time the player dies. This means on the first life you will have three times the amount of firepower than on your last. Like Xevious there are two types of weapon - forward lasers for flying enemies and bombs for bases. Star Jacker was ported to the SG-1000 in the same year. Due to the...
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Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes (ロレッタの肖像 Sherlock Holmes) is an adventure game developed and published by Sega exclusively in Japan in 1987. At its core, Loretta no Shouzou is an SG-1000 game (making it the last official Japanese release of its kind), however its late release in 1987 meant it was packaged and advertised as a Sega Mark III game (the Mark III being backwards compatible with the SG-1000). At 128kB in size, it would be the biggest SG-1000 game, and its packaging...
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Bomb Jack (ボンジャック) is an arcade game developed by Tehkan which was later ported to the SG-1000 by Sega in 1985. The aim of the game is to collect all the bombs in the playfield while avoiding monsters. Extra points are awarded for collecting the bombs in a specific order.
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Borderline (ボーダーライン) is a VIC Dual arcade game developed in 1980 by Sega. It is a shoot-'em-up in which the player controls a red jeep who must destroy the enemy refineries. Borderline was ported to the Sega SG-1000 in 1983 by a then-new Compile without credit, and has also been released as part of the Sega Ages 2500 series in Japan. The second gameplay section was also recycled for the Atari 2600 release of Thunderground, though instead of driving a jeep the player controls a...
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Soukoban (倉庫番) is a puzzle game developed by Thinking Rabbit. Sega ported it to the SG-1000 in 1985, and in 1990, a Sega Game Gear version was also released. Neither version left Japan. Soukoban is the basis for Shove It! ...The Warehouse Game , released for the Sega Mega Drive.
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Zoom 909 (ズーム909) is an arcade game developed by Sega for VCO Object arcade hardware. It was released worldwide in 1982, however after obtaining a license for Buck Rogers, western versions of the game became known as Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom. Both Zoom 909 and Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom are largely the same game minus some minor graphical differences. Though most home ports of the game are based on Planet of Zoom, Zoom 909 was brought to the Japanese MSX in 1983 and SG-1000 in 1985.
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Shinnyuushain Tooru-Kun (コナミの新入社員とおる君) is a game for the SG-1000. It was originally an arcade game by Konami known as Mikie outside Japan.
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Orguss (オーガス) is a shoot-'em-up game developed and published by Sega for the SG-1000. In the game, the player takes control of a robot which can transform into a starship. It is based on the science fiction anime series Super Dimension Century Orguss. The player can swap between robot and starship modes freely, though both come with their own set advantages and disadvantages. In robot mode, you are able to destroy ground targets and have greater freedom across the screen at the expense...
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Tranquillizer Gun (トランキライザーガン) is a 1980 arcade game developed by Sega for VIC Dual hardware. It has the player control a hunter, who must make his way around a maze shooting animals and dragging their bodies back to his truck. The game was brought to the SG-1000 as Safari Hunting (サファリハンティング) by a then-just founded Compile with slightly updated graphics. It was also included as a minigame within Dynamite Cop .
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Exerion (エクセリオン) is a arcade shoot-'em-up released by Jaleco in 1983. It was ported to several systems including the SG-1000. Exerion is a very basic shoot-'em-up, however its main appeal at the time was its parallax backgrounds, whose positions would change depending on the coordinates of the player's ship. Unfortunately, the effects do not transfer well onto the SG-1000, as the scrolling is choppy. 1 shoots a single shot which you can shoot rapidfire. 2 shoots a double shot which...
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Ninja Princess (忍者プリンセス), known as Sega Ninja in the west, is a Sega System 1 arcade game by Sega. It is a top-down shooter/action game, in which you play as a princess disguised as a ninja who is attempting to stop the evil tyrant Gyokuro. The game was ported to the SG-1000 in 1986 exclusively for Japan, with an MSX port following shortly afterwards. It was also brought to the Sega Master System as The Ninja , however The Ninja makes several adjustments to the story and...
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Hang-On II (ハングオンII) is an SG-1000 sequel to the critically acclaimed Hang-On . Despite the name, the game is meant as a direct sequel to the Mark III version of Hang-On , and is virtually identical to that game. The only difference is downgraded graphics and the addition of music from the arcade version. Meanwhile, Super Hang-On is the direct sequel to the arcade game. It is compatible with the BH-400 bike handle controller, and would be the only SG-1000 game designed for it (though...
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Flicky (フリッキー) is a video game released for Sega System 1 arcade hardware in 1984. The game stars a little blue bird called Flicky tasked with saving smaller birds from being eaten by predators. It was designed by Youji Ishii, and (according to text at the top and bottom of the ROM) was known as Busty and Flippy during development. Following its release, Flicky was ported to the Sega SG-1000, MSX, NEC PC-8801, Sharp X1, Fujitsu FM-7, Sega Mega Drive, DoCoMo iMode mobile phones, and...
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Star Force (スターフォース) is a 1984 arcade vertical shoot-'em-up developed by Tehkan (now Tecmo), which was later brought to the SG-1000 in 1985. The SG-1000 version of the game was released on both cartridge an on Sega Card.
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Lode Runner (ロードランナー) is a puzzle/action game originally developed by Douglas E. Smith and published by Brøderbund Software in 1983. It made its way to many home computers and video games consoles of the day including the SG-1000. Like the NES port, this version only has 50 levels instead of 150 in the original Apple II version, but is much faster.
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Click here to view the manual to this game. Monaco GP (モナコＧＰ) is a 1979 arcade racing game made by Sega. The game is very simple - all the player needs to do is avoid cars and obstacles on a track. He/she can speed up and slow down and two players may play at the same time. Monaco GP was Sega's last arcade game to use discrete logic circuits rather than a digital CPU, meaning it cannot be emulated in emulators such as MAME. The player's score and time are also displayed on external...
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Pitfall II: The Lost Caverns (ピットフォールII) is the sequel to Pitfall and was released for a variety of systems during the mid-1980s including the SG-1000 in 1985. It was also ported to Sega System 1 arcade hardware by Sega. Gameplay is similar to the original game, but the levels are more maze-like. Sega's version of Pitfall II was tweaked significantly from its western counterparts released for the Atari 2600 , ColecoVision etc. The gameplay is largely the same, but there are many...
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Choplifter (チョップリフター) is a 1982 Apple II game developed by Dan Gorlin and published by Brøderbund. In the game you pilot a helicopter and must rescue people from prisoner of war camps. The success of Choplifter meant it was brought to a variety of platforms including the SG-1000 in 1985 and the Sega Master System in 1986. Sega were also responsible for an arcade port to both Sega System 1 and Sega System 2 hardware. Though Choplifter II was a Nintendo Game Boy exclusive,...
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Gulkave (ガルケーブ) is an SG-1000 shoot 'em up game developed by Compile and published by Sega in 1986. It is a horizontal shooter, in which the player controls a spaceship that must destroy the 8 fortresses of the Gulbas Empire and several various enemies. Despite the limitations of the console, there are 30 "acts", and each "act" has a different background and there are numerous powerups available, setting it apart from most other SG-1000 shooters at the time. Pony...
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Yamato (ヤマト) is an arcade game developed by Sega in 1983. It runs on hardware designed by Nichibutsu for their 1980 game Crazy Climber . It was subsequently brought to the SG-1000 later in the year. In the game the player takes control of the Yamato battleship (which was sunk off Kyuushuu during World War II), firing at enemy ships and planes while avoiding missiles and torpedoes.
Lode Runner (19xx)(Sega)(TW)(en)
Chack'n Pop (198x)(Sega - Taito)(TW)(en)
Zaxxon (ザクソン) is an arcade shoot 'em up video game released by Sega. It is named after its groundbreaking use of axonometric projection (though more specifically, it uses isometric projection) and was released for bespoke arcade hardware in 1982. Zaxxon was the first video game to use an isometric perspective, a graphical style which would see widespread use in the years which followed. Zaxxon stands as one of Sega's earliest video game successes, and is also notable for being the first...
Sega Flipper (セガフリッパー) is a pinball game released for the SG-1000 in 1983. In New Zealand it is known as Video Flipper. It was one of the first pinball video games to be released, being released one year earlier than attempts from Jaleco and Nintendo but four years after Atari's Video Pinball . Unlike Video Pinball , however, Sega Flipper makes use of color.
Circus Charlie (サーカスチャーリー Sākasu Chārī?) is an action/platform game originally released by Konami in which the player controls a clown named Charlie. The game was a hit arcade game in 1984, which also had a successful release on the MSX in 1984, the Nintendo Famicom in 1986 by Soft Pro and on the Commodore 64 in 1987.
Super Tank (198x)(Sega)(TW)(en)
GP World (ＧＰワールド) is a Laserdisc-based racing game developed and published by Sega for a custom-built arcade system in 1984. It was "ported" to the SG-1000 in 1985. GP World uses a third person perspective similar to the likes of Turbo, and sees the player race in a formula one car across various tracks. It is also notable for having a track editor. It is likely that the SH-400 controller was designed with this game in mind.
Safari Race (サファリレース) is a racing game for the SG-1000, developed and published by Sega in 1984. The player must drive through various "sections", avoiding wildlife and other cars while making sure not to run out of fuel. The game is notable for using licensed cars, potentially the first video game to do so. The player controls a Lancia Stratos HF, and according to the box art, some of the rival cars are Audi Quattros. The Lancia Stratos would receive greater video game...
Sega Flipper (1983)(Sega)(JP)(en)
Rock n' Bolt (ロックンボルト) is a puzzle game developed by Activision, released for a number of home computers and consoles including the SG-1000 in 1985. It follows Louie the constructor who must bolt down moving platforms in their correct location within a set time limit. The SG-1000 port is arguably a better choice over its Commodore 64, MSX and ColecoVision counterparts. This is because it is able to give the game a soundtrack without sacrificing the quality of the graphics....
Othello (オセロ) is an SG-1000 video game based on the board game Othello. Two versions of Othello exist for the SG-1000. The first version, released in 1983, was built into the Othello Multivision (which is where the system gets its name from). Sega would later re-release this game in cartridge form in 1985, offering significant graphical and AI improvements over Tsukuda Original's version.
Home Mahjong Rev 0 (1984)(Sega)(JP)
Doki Doki Penguin Land (19xx)(Chia-Ling Corp - Sega)(TW)(en-zh)
Super Tank (スーパータンク) is a shoot-'em-up game for the SG-1000. The player drives a tank and is tasked with shooting at and destroying enemy units and structures.
Chack'n Pop (ちゃっくんぽっぷ Chakkunpoppu?) is an arcade game released by Taito in 1983, considered to be an ancestor of Bubble Bobble due to the appearance of many similar enemies and Bubble Bobble's duplication of a Chack'n Pop level. The arcade rom set also contains unused graphics for the mechanical wind-up "Zen-Chan" that later appeared in Bubble Bobble. Although now considered obscure, home conversions of the game exist for Sega SG-1000, MSX, Famicom, NEC PC-6001 and...
Champion Pro Wrestling (チャンピオンプロレス) is an SG-1000 game. It was later ported to SG-1000-based arcade hardware and to the MSX. Other Japanese computers received Champion Prowres Special instead.
Dragon Wang (ドラゴン・ワン) is an action game for the SG-1000. You play as a man and have to kick other men through four stages. It is the prequel to Kung Fu Kid for the Sega Master System.
Hyper Sports 2 is a port of the MSX game of the same name. This port was only released in Taiwan. Sequel to button masher Hyper Sports , this edition of the series features ball-trap, archery and weight-lifting events.
Home Mahjong (ホーム麻雀) is a mahjong game for the SG-1000.
Lode Runner II is the Taiwanese release of Championship Lode Runner . Championship Lode Runner (チャンピオンシップロードランナー) is a puzzle/action game which serves as an update to Lode Runner . It is almost exactly the same game, but contains 50 of the most challenging levels devised. The SG-1000 version also introduces music and offers a slight change in graphics.
Click here to view the manual to this game. Pachinko (パチンコ) is an SG-1000 game developed and published by Sega in 1983. It is, as the name suggests, a video game version of Pachinko, a popular game in Japan. The game did not see an international release. Pachinko is an extremely rare game for the SG-1000. Soon after release, it was recalled from sale due to a game-breaking bug and very few copies remain in the hands of collectors. As of 2013, a recent auction of the game on Yahoo Japan...
Elevator Action (エレベーターアクション) is an arcade game developed by Taito which was later ported to the SG-1000 exclusively for Japan. This is one of two Elevator Action games to be released on a Sega system, the other being Elevator Action Returns .
Champion Soccer (チャンピオンサッカー) is a simplistic football game built for the SG-1000. Pony Canyon later brought it to the MSX.
Bank Panic is an arcade game developed by Sanritsu and manufactured by Sega in 1984. West Bank is a clone of the game, released on several platforms. The player assumes the part of an Old West sheriff who must protect a bank and its customers from masked robbers. The layout of the bank is implicitly a circle with twelve numbered doors and the player in the center. The player can rotate to the left or right and view three doors at a time. The doors will open to reveal a customer (who will drop a...
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Serizawa Hachidan no Tsumeshogi for the SG-1000 (芹沢八段の詰将棋), early SG-1000 problem game based on Shogi - aka Japanese chess. Time to confront to a new mystery!
Bomb Jack (198x)(Boram - Sega - Tehkan)(KR)(en)
Champion Baseball (チャンピオンベースボール) is an arcade baseball game developed by ADK. Sega distributed the game worldwide, and produced an SG-1000 port in 1983. Alpha Denshi also made a sequel, only released in arcades.
Champion Tennis (チャンピオンテニス) is a simplistic tennis game built for the SG-1000.
Champion Boxing (チャンピオンボクシング) is a simplistic boxing game built for the SG-1000. It was later re-released in arcades for SG-1000-based arcade hardware. An MSX version was released in 1985, published by Pony Canyon. There are five difficulty levels, and the aim is to knock out the opponent. 1 attacks, 2 selects an attack. Interestingly, if a player wins Pengo will make a cameo. Champion Boxing is also noteworthy for being the first game coded by Yu Suzuki in his first year...
Choplifter (198x)(Sega)(TW)(en)
C_So! (Ｃ-ＳＯ！) is a 1985 SG-1000 game developed by Compile and published by Sega. It is a port of an MSX game from the same year, which was published by Pony Canyon. The game has the player collect various items and defeat monsters by using see-saws. In order to progress, all items must be collected and all monsters must be destroyed. There is also an edit mode, allowing the player to create their own levels. The game was only released in Japan. A South Korean company Joy Soft...
C So! (198x)(Pony - Sega)(TW)(en)
N-Sub (Ｎ-サブ) is an arcade game released by Sega in 1980. It is similar to Nintendo's Heli Fire but currently nobody is sure which came first. It is also very similar to Deep Scan , except rather than control a boat firing at submarines, you're a submarine firing at boats (and other submarines). As it was a VIC Dual game, it was often bundled with another game in the arcade. N-Sub is one of the few VIC Dual games to see a home console port — and one of Compile's first projects. It was...
Soukoban (198x)(Sega - Thinking Rabbit)(TW)(en-ja)
Space Invaders (スペースインベーダー) is a 1979 milestone arcade game developed by Taito. The player controls a gun which can move left or right, and needs to destroy waves of aliens (or "invaders") before they reach the ground. Space Invaders was brought to a variety of home video game consoles and computers, including the SG-1000 in 1985. Surprisingly the SG-1000 port of the game was one of the most accurate of its time, surpassing the NES and MSX versions which were the...
Monaco GP Rev 1 (1983)(Sega)(JP)(en)
Magical Tree is an action game developed by Konami. Aaronix ported the MSX version of the game to the SG-1000 in Taiwan as Móguǐ shù (魔鬼樹) . It is unknown whether they had a license to do so. It was later released in South Korea as a card for the Sega Master System as Yosul Namu (요술나무).
Drol (ドロール) is an SG-1000 game released in 1985. Originally developed by Brøderbund for various home computers in the west, it was brought to the SG-1000 by Sega and released exclusively in Japan. You play as a robot who must rescue his children.
Hustle Chumy (ハッスルチューミー) is an SG-1000 and MSX game developed by Compile and released in 1984. In Hustle Chumy players control a mouse named Chumy who needs to collect apples (and other food) in a sewer, avoiding other critters as he goes. As Chumy eats more food, his speed decreases, but his fireballs are given a longer range. Levels have varying layouts.
Okamoto Ayako no Match Play Golf (岡本綾子のマッチプレイゴルフ - Ayako Okamoto's Match Play Golf) is a golf game for the Othello Multivision, released by Tsukuda Original. It is also compatible with the Sega SG-1000.
Omikuji by Maechiko - Homebrew cartridge to 1998.
Pachinko II (パチンコⅡ) is the sequel to Pachinko , and was released for the SG-1000 in 1984.
Champion Ice Hockey (198x)(Sega)(TW)(en)
Championship Lode Runner (チャンピオンシップロードランナー) is a puzzle/action game which serves as an update to Lode Runner . It is almost exactly the same game, but contains 50 of the most challenging levels devised. The SG-1000 version also introduces music and offers a slight change in graphics.
Choplifter v613 (1985)(Sega)(JP)(en)(beta)
Doki Doki Penguin Land (どきどきペンギンランド) is a 1985 game initially developed by Sega for the SG-1000. It is a platform-based puzzle game, where a penguin must guide an egg down the screen making sure not to break it. Doki Doki Penguin Land is often considered by Sega to be a classic, even though it has rarely been seen outside of Japan. An arcade version was developed running on hardware derived from the SG-1000, and as such is largely identical to the home version. There was...
Bomb Jack (198x)(Sega - Tehkan)(TW)(en)
The Black Onyx (ザ・ブラックオニキス) is a role-playing game developed by Bullet Proof Software. It was released, among other consoles and computers, for the SG-1000 in 1987. It was the last SG-1000 game to be released in card form, and the last to be published by Sega, but it is currently unknown as to whether it was the last SG-1000 game. MSX and PC-8801 versions had been released in 1983 and 1984, respectively, meaning this version is unusually late. The game was followed by The...
Ninja Princess (198x)(Sega)(TW)(en-ja)
N-Sub (1983)(Sega)(JP)(en)
Champion Kendou (198x)(Sega)(TW)(en-ja)
Star Force (19xx)(Chia-Ling Corp - Sega - Tenkan)(TW)(en)
N-Sub (1988)(Sega)(EU)(en)
The SG-1000 (エスジー・セン Esujī Sen?), which stands for Sega Game 1000, was a cartridge-based video game console manufactured by Sega. This system marked Sega's first entry into the home video game hardware business, and while the system was not popular, it provided the basis for the more successful Master System.
