Fantasy Zone

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Fantasy Zone
Japanese flyer
Developer(s)	Sega
Publisher(s)	JP: Sega
Designer(s)	Yoji Ishii
Programmer(s)	Shuichi Katagi
Artist(s)	Masaki Kondo
Composer(s)	Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Series	Fantasy Zone
Platform(s)	Arcade, Master System, Nintendo Entertainment System, MSX, PC Engine, Game Gear, X68000, Saturn, Mobile phone, Nintendo Switch, Sega Genesis Mini 2
Release	JP: March 28, 1986[1]
Genre(s)	Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player
Arcade system	Sega System 16A

Fantasy Zone^[a] is a 1986 arcade video game by Sega, and the first game in the Fantasy Zone series. It was later ported to a wide variety of consoles, including the Master System. The player controls a sentient spaceship named Opa-Opa who fights an enemy invasion in the titular group of planets. The game contains a number of features atypical of the traditional scrolling shooter. The main character, Opa-Opa, is sometimes referred to as Sega's first mascot character.^[2]

The game design and main character have many similarities to the earlier TwinBee, and both are credited with establishing the cute 'em up subgenre.^[3] It also popularized the concept of a boss rush, a stage where the player faces multiple previous bosses again in succession.^[4] Numerous sequels were made over the years.

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