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Instruction booklet · November 1992

GunForce

ShooterPlatform1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

GunForce: Battle Fire Engulfed Terror Island or simply titled as GunForce, is a side-scrolling action shooting game produced by Irem for the arcades in 1991. The game was later ported by Bits Studios and published by Irem to the Super Famicom exclusively in Japan in 1992. Outside of Japan, it later received a sequel titled GunForce II, originally known in Japan as Geo Storm.

Specifications

Released
November 1992
Developer
Bits Studios
Publisher
Irem
Players
1
Genre
Shooter · Platform
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
GunForce
Themes
Action · Science fiction
View
Side view

What the magazines said

EGM · not on record yet

Players
65/100 (8 ratings)
Nintendo Power
3.075/5
GameRankings
60.25%
Famitsu
18/40
Consoles +
71%
Famimaga
17.89/30
Joypad
79%
Joystick
67%
N-Force
70%
Play Time
67%
The Super Famicom
60/100
Super Play
59%
Super Pro
48%
Video Games
39%
BE KIND, REWINDNovember 1992
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💵 A Super NES was $199.99 at launch · about $473 today

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