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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is an arcade VerticalScrollingShooter developed and published by Creator/EightingRaizing in 1996 for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later being ported in 1997 to both the Sega Saturn and the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/ManabuNamiki.

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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is an arcade VerticalScrollingShooter developed and published by Creator/EightingRaizing in 1996 for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn Platform/SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later being ported in 1997 to both the Sega Saturn and the UsefulNotes/PlayStation.Platform/PlayStation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/ManabuNamiki.
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* ActorAllusion: The MissionControl in the PS port was voiced by Creator/MikiNagasawa, who notably voiced BridgeBunny Maya Ibuki in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
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* AnimalWrongsGroup: The violence in the game is blamed on these kinds of groups to hide the truth.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Bafu Interstellar Development Inc. builds a whole military force and attacks other companies in order to achieve a monopoly.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Bafu Interstellar Development Inc. builds a whole military force and attacks other companies in order to achieve a monopoly. Notably, it's referred to as a "gongsi", implying a Chinese origin.

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In the year 2050, space mining operations are becoming competitive as the Eight Luck Interstellar Development Inc. starts muscling in on other companies in an aggressive manner. The Jin-Sei Corporation teams up with Japan to counteract Eight Luck. It is now up to a few pilots and their advanced space ships to save the day.

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In the year 2050, space mining operations are becoming competitive as the Eight Luck Bafu Interstellar Development Inc. starts muscling in on other companies in an aggressive manner. The Jin-Sei Corporation teams up with Japan to counteract Eight Luck.Bafu. It is now up to a few pilots and their advanced space ships to save the day.



* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Eight Luck Interstellar Development Inc. builds a whole military force and attacks other companies in order to achieve a monopoly.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Eight Luck Bafu Interstellar Development Inc. builds a whole military force and attacks other companies in order to achieve a monopoly.



* MegaCorp: At a minimum, the Jin-Sei Corporation and Eight Luck Interstellar Development are this.

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* MegaCorp: At a minimum, the Jin-Sei Corporation and Eight Luck Bafu Interstellar Development are this.this.
* OneNationUnderCopyright: According to lore, Bafu is headquartered in a small Asian country called Corporate Nation Enigma, which they essentially own.
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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by Creator/EightingRaizing in 1996 for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/ManabuNamiki.

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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a an arcade VerticalScrollingShooter developed and published by Creator/EightingRaizing in 1996 for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later being ported in 1997 to both the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn proper Sega Saturn and the Playstation.UsefulNotes/PlayStation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/ManabuNamiki.
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* MacrossMissileMassacre: The boss of Stage 1 does this after you destroy its laser cannons.
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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/ManabuNamiki.

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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing Creator/EightingRaizing in 1996 for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/ManabuNamiki.
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* AsteroidsMonster: One stage involves flying through the asteroid belt, complete with asteroids that get blown up into smaller but still-quite-deadly pieces.

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* AsteroidsMonster: One stage involves flying through the asteroid belt, complete with asteroids that get blown up into smaller but still-quite-deadly pieces. Of note is that your normal shot is too weak to harm them, but your lock-on will blow them up.
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* AsteroidThicket: The fourth stage is set in the asteroid belt with lots of [[AsteroidsMonster asteroids]] floating around. Thankfully [[FridgeBrilliance these don't count towards the enemy forces' destruction rate if they escape]].
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* FireBreathingWeapon: Third boss is a huge tank with two gigantic flamethrowers that can fire a single stream or even a SpreadShot of them.
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* TookALevelInBadass: The final boss of the game is ''the very first boss of the game''... [[OhCrap now with the player's own Lock-On abilities]].

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* TookALevelInBadass: The final boss of the game is ''the the ''final form of the very first boss of the game''... game'' minus the missile launchers... but [[OhCrap now with the player's own Lock-On abilities]].
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* TookALevelInBadass: The final boss of the game is ''the very first boss of the game''... [[OhCrap now with the player's own Lock-On abilities]].
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* NoExportForYou: For the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn and PlayStation ports, even though the Arcade version runs on hardware that is very closely related to the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn.
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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/ManabuNamiki.

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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/ManabuNamiki.



* NoExportForYou: For the SegaSaturn and PlayStation ports, even though the Arcade version runs on hardware that is very closely related to the SegaSaturn.

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* NoExportForYou: For the SegaSaturn UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn and PlayStation ports, even though the Arcade version runs on hardware that is very closely related to the SegaSaturn.UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn.
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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/ManabuNamiki.

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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by HitoshiSakimoto Creator/HitoshiSakimoto and Creator/ManabuNamiki.
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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by HitoshiSakimoto and ManabuNamiki.

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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by HitoshiSakimoto and ManabuNamiki.
Creator/ManabuNamiki.
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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the RaySeries, except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by HitoshiSakimoto and ManabuNamiki.

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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the RaySeries, ''VideoGame/RAYSeries'', except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by HitoshiSakimoto and ManabuNamiki.
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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a vertical-scrolling ShootEmUp published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the RaySeries, except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by HitoshiSakimoto and ManabuNamiki.

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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a vertical-scrolling ShootEmUp VerticalScrollingShooter published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the RaySeries, except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by HitoshiSakimoto and ManabuNamiki.

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''Soukyugurentai'' (a.k.a. ''Terra Diver'') is a vertical-scrolling ShootEmUp published by EightingRaizing in 1996 for the SegaSaturn ST-V hardware, later ported to the SegaSaturn proper and the Playstation. Its gameplay is distinguished by having lock-on weapons similar to the RaySeries, except able to lock on to 3-D wireframe areas. Its music was composed by HitoshiSakimoto and ManabuNamiki.

In the year 2050, space mining operations are becoming competitive as the Eight Luck Interstellar Development Inc. starts muscling in on other companies in an aggressive manner. The Jin-Sei Corporation teams up with Japan to counteract Eight Luck. It is now up to a few pilots and their advanced space ships to save the day.
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!!''Soukyugurentai'' contains examples of the following:
* AnimalWrongsGroup: The violence in the game is blamed on these kinds of groups to hide the truth.
* AsteroidsMonster: One stage involves flying through the asteroid belt, complete with asteroids that get blown up into smaller but still-quite-deadly pieces.
* BattleshipRaid: The final stage, the High Altitude Relay and Attack plane 'Bakuzan'
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Eight Luck Interstellar Development Inc. builds a whole military force and attacks other companies in order to achieve a monopoly.
* DynamicDifficulty: It is based on the number of power-up items collected and the percentage of enemies destroyed.
* EvilCounterpart: The final boss has a lock-on weapon just like the player.
* FighterLaunchingSequence: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shTMXSlZue4&t=01m27s The launch sequence before the first level takes 9.92 seconds to complete.]] The next two levels after that has the player ship launching from an AirborneAircraftCarrier.
* HomingProjectile: All of the homing weapons of the playable characters, and many missiles used by the enemies.
* HumongousMecha: The boss of stage 4, the General Purpose Strategy Aggressive space craft 'Akitaka'
* KillSat: The boss of stage 2, the Anti-Space Anti-Ground satellite Shin-Sen
* MegaCorp: At a minimum, the Jin-Sei Corporation and Eight Luck Interstellar Development are this.
* NoExportForYou: For the SegaSaturn and PlayStation ports, even though the Arcade version runs on hardware that is very closely related to the SegaSaturn.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: Each of the pilots has undergone strengthening procedures so that they can survive high-speed dogfighting in deep space.
* {{Roboteching}}: The playable characters fire a lot of bending beams.
* TankGoodness: There are many enemy tanks, but one that stands out as the boss of stage 3 is the Grapple Strategy Attack tank 'Don-Ryu'
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