Air Buster - Trouble Specialty, the Video Game by Kaneko Co., Ltd. [Tokyo, Japan]

Type of the machine : Video Game
Air Buster - Trouble Specialty © 1990 Kaneko.

A horizontally scrolling shoot'em up game.

Main CPU : (3x) Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 3 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 3 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 768

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

Released in January 1990.
Licensed to Namco.

The second level of Air Buster was clearly the inspiration for the 3rd level of 'Turrican 2'.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Air Buster - PCCB-00025) on 21/04/1990.

Software : S. Igarashi (To-y), H. Takeuchi (Tiny-Tomo)
Graphics : K. Matsuoka, N. Obana, T. Konakawa
Hardware : H. Mikami, H. Nagayoshi
Music composed by : Tatsuya Watanabe
Sound operate : S. Aizu
Test game : F. Komori, K. Niihara, T. Okamoto
Total coordinate : S. Igarashi (To-y)
General producer : Hiroshi Kaneko

Consoles :

Nec PC Engine (1990, "Aero Blasters")
Sega Mega Drive1991, "Aero Blasters")

Game's rom.
Machine's picture.