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Instruction booklet · January 1992

Earth Defense Force

Shooter1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

An evil organization, named AGYMA, threatens the 200 years of peace the galaxy has enjoyed. It was released for the SNES and also as a view-limited downloadable game for the Satellaview that was broadcast in at least 3 runs between August 31, 1997 and February 28, 1998.

Specifications

Released: January 1992
Developer: Jaleco
Publisher: Jaleco
Players: 1
Genre: Shooter
Rating: Pre-ESRB
Themes: Action · Science fiction
View: Bird view / Isometric

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players: 50/100 (11 ratings)
ACE: 850/1000
Famitsu: 5/5, 6/5
GX: 3.5/5
Nintendo Life: 6/10
Total!: 61%
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment: 7/10
Control: 48%
Electric Brain: 78%
Game Boy: 2/5, 2/5
Hippon Super!: 8/10
Super Action: 71%
The Super Famicom: B+
Super Pro: 43/100

BE KIND, REWINDJanuary 1992

#1 song

Black or WhiteMichael Jackson #1 album

DangerousMichael Jackson Admit one · #1 movie

Hook$11,472,860 weekend

Vol. 2 · No. 20Omaha, Nebraska · Late edition25¢

The Omaha World-Pixel

Week of January 3, 1992

Jan. 5

Seventeen-year-old Kelly Dae Wilson disappears in Gilmer, Texas. Her case became one of the biggest unsolved missing-persons cases in Texas.

💵 A Super NES was $199.99 at launch · about $473 today

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