Space Harrier

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Space Harrier is a 1985 Sega shooting game set in the Fantasy Zone, the part which is the land of dragons.

The player controls a man with blond hair, red jacket, blue pants and a jetpack doubling as a laser cannon, who fights alien creatures while zooming towards the horizon at blisteringly fast speeds over highly colorful landscapes.

The original arcade game was built on a version of the powerful "Super Scaler" hardware Sega had introduced in Hang-On and would use again in After Burner and Thunder Blade.

Two console sequels were produced in the late 1980s: Space Harrier 3-D, which used the Sega Master System's SegaScope 3D system, and Space Harrier II, one of the launch titles for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

In 2000, Sega attempted a reboot with Planet Harriers, a Panzer Dragoon-like game featuring an all-new cast; this was an Arcade Game that never made it to consoles.

Tropes used in Space Harrier include:

• Bonus Stage: Stages 5 and 12 have you leap onto a friendly dragon and score points by flying into everything in sight.
• Boss Rush: The eighteenth and final level (Absymbel) is solely a parade of six of the previous bosses, except that now they get names
• Cyclops: One-eyed woolly mammoths.
• Dragon Rider: You get to ride the good dragon Uriah during the bonus stages and the ending.
• Eenie Meenie Miny Moai: Moai are featured fairly prominently, mostly during level 2 (Geeza).
• Fungus Humongous: Giant psychedelic mushrooms in stages 3 (Amar) & 10 (Minia).
• One-Hit-Point Wonder: Hit an obstacle or projectile, and you lose a life.
• Segmented Serpent: The dragons.
• Shared Universe: With Fantasy Zone.
• Sinister Geometry: Animated icosahedra called Binzbeans.