SCION
Released Year : 1985
Published by : SONY / SEIBU DENSHI
Price : 4800 yen
Platform : MSX
Media : ROM
"You take off with battle jet called Jatati to rescue the comrade.
It is essential to destroy Cristal Heaven, which doubly covers the Earth, to reach enemy's base.
How far can you go with 3 Jatati ?
Can you rescue your comrade ?
Good Luck."
(quoted from Japanese manual)
Controls
Cursor Key
Move Jatati
Space
Counter Air Missile
Graph
Ground Bomb
At the beginning, you only have counter air missile.
After breaking front part of the flying object, you can equip ground bomb.
To reach final destination scene 100, you can use warp system.
Good example of SONY's unique sense of porting
SONY had been ported some maniac arcade titles to MSX, for example "Mr.Do vs Unicorns" and "SENJYO".
Then they choose Scion as next one, with the same unique sense.
In MSX era, porting from other platform was usual way of publishers,
and SONY is special one with this sense.
And Scion is one of the most unique choise.
(Later, they had hit title "Wiz", with the same way)
Many vertical-shooters in 1980's have a tendency to be regarded as imitation of Xevious.
But Scion may be the original of "Web-like shooter".
"Savage Bees (Exed Exes)" and "Zaviga" seems successor of it.
On designing aspect, Scion gave great contribution in shooter's history.
Title Scene 1
Between Scene 1 and 2 Scene 2 (Sky)
Scene 3 (enemy base) Fortress