Darius Alpha

TurboGrafx-16 · 1990

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About this game

Darius Alpha is a promotional version of Darius Plus released in 1990 for the PC Engine.

It was a mail-order exclusive, obtainable by sending in a pair of coupons found in the manuals of Super Darius and Darius Plus.

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There were only 800 copies of the card produced, making it one of the rarest, and the absolute most expensive, PC Engine HuCard ever made.

This version is only a Boss Rush, where the player faces against all Plus bosses one after another.

Like Plus, Alpha features SuperGrafx support, which greatly reduces sprite flickering.

Pressing Select on the title screen starts the game with a 4-minute time limit.

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About TurboGrafx-16

Known as the PC Engine in Japan, the TurboGrafx-16 (1989) punched well above its small form factor but never found a large audience in North America, leading to one of the smallest console libraries of its generation in the West. That limited Western release makes complete, boxed TurboGrafx-16 games some of the scarcer finds in retro console collecting today.

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