Gaiares

Gaiares

Released1990
Gaiares is a horizontal-scrolling shoot em' up released for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis in 1990. The game bears a striking mechanic similarity to that of the R-Type series, alongside those of other well-known Shoot Em' Ups such as Gradius and Thunder Force, all of which it was trying to compete against.
79Wit Score

Details

DeveloperTelenet Japan
PublisherTec Toy
ReleasedDecember 26, 1990
StatusReleased
GenresShooter
ThemesActionScience fiction
PlatformsSEG Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
ModesSingle player

Wit-Index Intelligence

Community Score
Worth Playing79/100

About This Game

Centuries into the future, Earth lies in ruins—a barren, poisoned world where humanity clings to survival amid radioactive wastelands and toxic decay. When the marauding space pirates led by the ruthless Queen ZZ Badnusty threaten to harvest the planet's pollution and weaponize it for conquest, the distant Star Cluster of Leezaluth issues an ultimatum: Earth's defenders have one chance to thwart the invasion, or the cluster will detonate the sun itself to prevent catastrophe. Young pilot Dan Dare is selected to pilot an experimental fighter equipped with the TOZ System, an advanced weapon designed by Leezaluth and managed by their emissary Alexis, in a desperate bid to save humanity from extinction and earn the chance for planetary restoration.