Tengai, the Video Game by Psikyo

Type of the machine : Video Game
Tengai © 1996 Psikyo.

Nice horizontal shoot'em up with 5 selectable characters who have their own storyline and ending.

Main CPU : 68EC020 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YMF278B (@ 33.8688 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 59.30 Hz
Palette colors : 4096

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2 (FIRE, SPECIAL)

Released in April 1996.

The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Beyond The Heavens'.

This game is known in Japan as "Sengoku Blade - Sengoku Ace Episode II".

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 3 smileys, and 'THAT all IS all WRONG' appears.

Soundtrack releases :
Sengoku Blade / Psikyo [Pony Canyon / Scitron - PCCB-00216 - May 17, 1996]

* Extra Features : if you hold Test Button + PL1 Button 1 during boot, you get extra options in the test menu. A level skip, BG test usually etc...

* Play As Ayin : at the character selection screen, highlight the [?] and press Up(X3), Down(X3), Up(X7) and Ayin will appear.

1. Samurai Aces (1993)
2. Tengai (1996)
3. Sengoku Cannon - Sengoku Ace Episode III (2005, Sony PSP)

Composed by : Masaki Izutani

Consoles :

Sega Saturn (1996)
Sony PlayStation 2 (2004, "Psikyo Shooting Collection Vol. 2")

Game's rom.