Baraduke

Baraduke was released in July 1985 in Japan. The game did well, but not much more.

In the game's logo, all consonants are uppercase and all vowels are lowercase.

Namco had the reputation of making cute games but Takahashi, the game planner, was tired of making cute games. So the developers tried to make the most disgusting graphics possible. The game was inspired by movies such as Alien and Nausicaa (both for the heroine seen in the ending but also for one of the bosses, inspired by Ohmu). One of the monsters is inspired by Pac-Man (roughly speaking, it was a “bad version of Pac-Man”).

The names Kissy and Takky (for Takahashi and Kishimoto), used for players 1 and 2, were not meant to remain in the game. The developers used them during the development and thought that they should replace them with “1P” and “2P”, as it was customary at Namco. But when Kishimoto’s superior saw the game with the names Takky and Kissy, he didn’t ask to remove them.

Kissy is the original Japanese space heroine pre-dating Metroid by a year. She's also the mother of Susmo Hori (a.k.a. Mr. Driller) and ex-wife of Taizoo Hori, the original Dig Dug!

Export releases:
The game is known outside Japan as Alien Sector.

Soundtrack releases:
Namco Video Game Graffiti [CD] [VDR-1165] - Victor (March 21, 1986)
Namco Video Game Graffiti [Tape] [VCH-10334] - Victor (March 21, 1986)
Namco Video Game Graffiti [Vinyl] [SJX-30291] - Victor (March 21, 1986)
Namco Game Music Volume 2 [CD] [28XA-171] - Alfa Records (August 25, 1987)
Namco Game Music Volume 2 [Tape] [ALC-22914] - Alfa Records (August 25, 1987)
Namco Game Music Volume 2 [Vinyl] [ALR-22914] - Alfa Records (August 25, 1987)
Namco Game Music Volume 2 [CD] [SCDC-00234] - Scitron Digital Content Inc. (April 23, 2003)