OutZone - Revision history

Komidore64: remove unnecessary horizontal rules and remove a link to a redirect page

2026-07-19T18:48:18Z

remove unnecessary horizontal rules and remove a link to a redirect page

Dreamroad at 23:07, 20 November 2025

2025-11-20T23:07:19Z

Dreamroad: Corrected staff list

2025-10-18T05:04:04Z

Corrected staff list

Frostyryker at 16:48, 2 May 2024

2024-05-02T16:48:02Z

Trap15: Video index link

2023-11-20T08:34:36Z

Video index link

NullNotBub: /* Ports */ Various patches fixed most of the sound issues.

2023-04-04T06:11:49Z

Ports: Various patches fixed most of the sound issues.

NMS: /* Trivia */

2023-03-06T21:25:46Z

Trivia

NullNotBub: Added info about the recent port in 2023, hitbox information, and some grammar fixes.

2023-02-17T23:55:11Z

Added info about the recent port in 2023, hitbox information, and some grammar fixes.

Frostyryker at 21:55, 13 February 2023

2023-02-13T21:55:18Z

CHA-STG: /* Strategy */

2022-02-18T21:49:29Z

Strategy

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 [[File:Outzonelogo.jpg|400px|center]]
 {{GameInfobox
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 == OutZone ==
 OutZone (アウトゾーン) is a vertical freely scrolling shmup developed by Toaplan in 1990. It was published by Tecmo in Japan, Romstar in North America, and Toaplan in Europe.
 OutZone never received any home console ports. M2's ShotTriggers division announced in April 2020 that they were developing a new port of OutZone for modern consoles. A PC port on [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022920/Out_Zone/ Steam] was released in February 2023.
 == Gameplay Overview ==
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 === Controls ===
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+* '''A (Press, both main weapons):''' Fires a shot.
-* '''A (Press, both main weapons):''' Fires a shot.
+* '''A (Press, Super Ball):''' Launches a ball forward.
 * '''A (Hold, 8 way main weapon and Super Burner):''' Auto fires at a fast rate.
 * '''A (Hold, fixed main weapon):''' Auto fires but the shots do not repeat very fast.
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 === Weapons ===
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+You have access to two normal weapons and two special weapons. You can switch between the normal weapons by picking up the C items. The two main weapons can be upgraded by picking up two "P" items.
 * The 8-directional laser fires in whatever direction you're moving, and creates a sweep of bullets as you change direction.
 * The 3-way wide shot always shoots forward.
 The two special weapons are used when collecting their corresponding SP item, randomly dropped by enemies.
 * The Super Burner is similar to the 8-directional laser but with shorter range and increased power
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 === Items ===
 {| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
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 |[[File:Outzonebombitem.PNG|100px]]||'''Bomb:''' Adds 1 to your bomb stock.
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 |[[File:Outzoneshelid.PNG|100px]]||'''Pale Pink - Shield:''' Gives the player a Shield that allows them to take one bullet without dying. The player will still die if they ram into an enemy or against some attacks such as lasers.
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 |[[File:Outzonespeedup.PNG|100px]]||'''Blue - Speed up:''' Increases the player's speed.
 |-
 |[[File:Outzoneenergyextend.PNG|100px]]||'''Green - Energy Extend:''' Increases the player's energy bar, allowing them to survive for a longer period of time without energy pickups. Also completely fills up your energy bar.
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 ===Hit Box===
 The player's [[Help:Glossary#Hitbox|hit box]] covers the chest and legs, making the head and gun of the character unaffected.
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 When dying by a bullet or enemy collision, a large explosion will occur where the player died that covers the entire sprite. This is meaningless when playing solo.
 === Rank ===
 Rank is tied to survival and maxes out in loop 3.
 === Loops ===
 The game will loop indefinitely.
 === Scoring ===
 Points are awarded by shooting enemies, destroying item boxes, and blowing up destructible environments like wall columns.
 Power Ups and Bombs: Collecting power ups and bombs yields 100 pts each. After you have collected 10 bombs, additional bomb pickups yield 5,000 points each.
 End Stage Bonus: 5000 points are awarded for each bomb left over at the end of the stage.
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 <div style='text-align: center;'>
 ''See [[OutZone/Strategy]] for '''stage maps''', '''enemy and boss descriptions''', '''walkthroughs''', and '''advanced play strategies'''.''
 </div>
 == Story ==
 In an advanced space era, humanity encountered, traded and formed alliances with many alien races to ensure security. Humanity had been subject to past invasions from hostile outside forces but the alliances Earth forged granted victories in the past. However in the year 2095, Earth had been subjected a to new invasion launched by the alien military force of planet Owagira, with overwhelmingly powerful and sophisticated weaponry than anything Earth's alliance could counter. With the threat of annihilation looming over, Earth's United Nations receive a message from an alien elder within their alliances about the existence of an ultra-elite mercenary unit named "Out Zone" at a remote region of the Milky Way galaxy. Known as "Space Entrepreneurs" and renowned for their fighting skills by other alien alliances, Out Zone takes sides with no one and are willing to fight any wars for the proper price. Under desperation and as a last-ditch effort to counterattack Owagira's military force, the UN requests Out Zone's service, guaranting Earth's entire budget as payment. With negotiations complete, two very powerful cyborg mercenaries belonging to Out Zone volunteer for the mission to fight for Earth. Having ties to Earth and realizing that their homeworld is in great peril, the two warriors rise up to save it from doom and destroy the Owagira Forces.
 == Development History ==
 Uemura recounted its development process and history in a 2017 interview, stating that it was difficult for him as he could not apply his experience from vertical-scrolling shooters with flying ships, as players controlled the game on-foot and could not design its progress.<ref name="pixelatedaudio">https://web.archive.org/web/20191023230947/https://pixelatedaudio.com/out-zone/</ref> He stated that the project was fundamentally different due to the lack of forced scrolling, which did not required skills from vertical shoot 'em ups and players could move or stop freely.<ref name="pixelatedaudio">https://web.archive.org/web/20191023230947/https://pixelatedaudio.com/out-zone/</ref><ref name="shmuplations uemura">http://shmuplations.com/toaplan-uemura1/</ref> Uemura stated that the intro was written during creation of the demonstration sequence, as the game's world was already established.<ref name="shmuplations toaplan">http://shmuplations.com/toaplan-chronicle/</ref> The team integrated puzzle elements not found in ship-based shooters, which took time to plan out and Uemura stated that the schedule for sound production was constantly being reduced, barely implementing the music during development.<ref name="pixelatedaudio">https://web.archive.org/web/20191023230947/https://pixelatedaudio.com/out-zone/</ref> When composing the music for the last stage, Uemura wanted to convey the sense of a "decisive battle".<ref name="pixelatedaudio">https://web.archive.org/web/20191023230947/https://pixelatedaudio.com/out-zone/</ref> Uemura has since regarded the project as "the most difficult product he worked on".<ref name="pixelatedaudio">https://web.archive.org/web/20191023230947/https://pixelatedaudio.com/out-zone/</ref>
 == Version Differences ==
 * JP version contains additional text during the attract mode and after you beat the stage 7 boss.
 ==Ports==
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 *Practice mode
 *Online leaderboards, only accessible when not using assists.
 == Trivia ==
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 * Pipiru, Toaplan's mascot, appears in Stage 1 if you shoot a specific area
 * Planes from [[Hishouzame]] help you if you shoot some bushes in Stage 2 in a specific order. Their behavior is similar to the helper planes in [[Daisenpuu]].
-* The [[Zero Wing]] ship can give you a point bonus if you reach specific areas fulfilling a certain condition (see [[(OutZone)/Strategy#Advanced_Strategy|the Advanced Strategy page.]])
+* The [[Zero Wing]] ship can give you a point bonus if you reach specific areas fulfilling a certain condition (see [[OutZone/Strategy#Advanced_Strategy|the Advanced Strategy page.]])
 * The ship from [[Tatsujin]] will help you if you have exactly 7 bombs upon destroy the door at the beginning of Stage 4. It follows you, automatically fires its signature 3-way shot at a slow rate and blocks bullets. The ship is destroyed after taking 20 hits and it's shot goes through some walls. The ship leaves when reaching the Stage 4 boss if it hasn't been destroyed at this point.
 == Gallery ==
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 ''See [[(Template Page)/Gallery]] for our collection of images and scans for the game.''
 </div>
 == References & Contributors ==

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 |music = Tatsuya Uemura
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-|program = Tatsuya Uemura
+|program = Tatsuya Uemura <br> Etsuhiro Wada
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 |art = Naoki Ogiwara <br> Miho Hayashi

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 |music = Tatsuya Uemura
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-|program = Naoki Ogiwara
+|program = Tatsuya Uemura
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-|art = Person C
+|art = Naoki Ogiwara <br> Miho Hayashi
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 |releasedate = August 1990

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 |imagescalepx = 180px
-|developer = Toaplan
+|developer = [[Toaplan]]
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 |music = Tatsuya Uemura
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 |art = Person C
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-|releasedate = Late 1990
+|releasedate = August 1990
 |previousgame = [[Same! Same! Same!]]
 |nextgame = [[Vimana]]
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 OutZone (アウトゾーン) is a vertical freely scrolling shmup developed by Toaplan in 1990. It was published by Tecmo in Japan, Romstar in North America, and Toaplan in Europe.
 OutZone never received any home console ports. M2's ShotTriggers division announced in April 2020 that they were developing a new port of OutZone for modern consoles. A PC port on [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2022920/Out_Zone/ Steam] was released in February 2023.
 == Gameplay Overview ==
-OutZone is a  vertical freely scrolling shmup with 8-way movement, a shot button and a bomb button.
+OutZone is a two-button game with 7 stages.
 === Controls ===

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 }}
 __TOC__
 == OutZone ==
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 </div>
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 == References & Contributors ==
+<small>* This template page was assembled by [[User:CHA-STG|CHA-STG]] and [[User:Plasmo|Plasmo]].</small>
 [[Category:Vertical orientation]]
 [[category:Puzzle_mechanic]]