Thunder Force IV

Technosoft / July 24, 1992 / Rated Everyone

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Released

1992

Publisher

SEGA

Time to beat

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Thunder Force IV (サンダーフォースIV), known in North America as Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar, is a 1992 side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Technosoft for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis as the fourth installment of the Thunder Force series. The game was released in Japan on July 24, 1992, in North America in September 1992, and in Europe in December 1992.

Thunder Force IV, known in North America as Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar, is a 1992 shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Technosoft for the Mega Drive/Genesis. It is the fourth installment in Technosoft's Thunder Force series, and the third and final one created for the Mega Drive. It was developed by the team at Technosoft that ported Devil's Crush to the Mega Drive rather than the team that developed the previous Thunder Force games. Like its predecessors, it is a horizontally scrolling shooter, but it also features extensive vertical scrolling with large playing fields.

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