Bee Storm - DoDonPachi II

IGS PGM cart. published 23 years ago by IGS Co., Ltd.

Listed in MAME

Info

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TECHNICAL/MACHINE PICT.

IGS PGM hardware

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 20 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 8.468 Mhz)
Sound Chips : ICS2115 (@ 8.468 Mhz)

Players: Up to 2 simultaneously.
Control per player: 8-way joystick
Buttons per player: 3
=> [A] Shoot, [B] Special weapon, [C] Rapid shooting

TRIVIA

Bee Storm was released in May 2001 in the Japanese arcades.

Developed by Cave and published by IGS under license from the developer.

It was the first shoot'em up game made on the PGM hardware.

Scitron Digital Content released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Dodonpachi II / Dodonpachi Sound Trax - SCDC-00126) on 19/09/2001.

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UPDATES

* V 100

* V 101

* V 102

TIPS AND TRICKS

Final stage : stage 7 is secret. You need to have over 400,000,000 pts (default needed points in Test Menu) at the end of the Stage 6 to be allowed to go to the final stage.

SERIES

1. DonPachi (1995)
2. DoDonPachi (1997)
3. Bee Storm - DoDonPachi II (2001)
4. DoDonPachi Dai-Ou-Jou (2002)
5. DoDonPachi Dai-Fukkatsu (2008)
6. DoDonPachi Saidaioujou (2012)
7. DoDonPachi Maximum (2012) [Apple App Store]

STAFF

Director : Why
Producer : Vee
Programmer : Laisam, Hawk Chen
Game Designer : Yan [Bastard]
Art Designer : Pipy, Kai, C.S.Y, Debby, Job
Music & Sound : Eddie Yao, Julian Chin, Parsonslin

SOURCES

Game's ROM.
Game's picture.
Game's screenshots.
Official website (Chinese): http://www.igs.com.tw/chinese/product/bee/index.htm
Official website (Japanese): http://www.igs.com.tw/chinese/product/bee/japan/index.htm
Official website (English): http://www.igs.com.tw/chinese/product/bee/usa/index.htm