Dragon Spirit (Arcade)

Dragon Spirit
Developer: Namco Publishers: Namco (JP), Atari Games (NA) Platform: Arcade (Namco System 1) Released in JP: June 20, 1987 Released in US: August 1987 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has revisional differences.

To do: There are two unused songs - a stereo test and another that ended up being used as a ranking theme in Dragon Saber and possibly unused sound effects. There are more revisional differences, including a slower character speed and an introductory sequence in the first stage for the early revisions.

Dragon Spirit is a vertical shooter game about a dragon in a quantum state of beheadedness.

Developer Credits

At address 0x1C00A in the audio CPU is a handful of credits:

Original	Translation
1987 NAMCO ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DRAGON SPIRIT SOUND DATA. MUSIC COMPOSED & ARRANGEMENT BY SHINJI HOSOE. (KAIHATSU 1BU) MAIN PROGRAM:KYOTA TANAKA GRAPHCS:AAKAWA & MATSUOKA & ISHIKAWA. YOROSHIKU NE !!!	1987 NAMCO ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DRAGON SPIRIT SOUND DATA. MUSIC COMPOSED & ARRANGEMENT BY SHINJI HOSOE. (DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT #1) MAIN PROGRAM:KYOTA TANAKA GRAPHCS:AAKAWA & MATSUOKA & ISHIKAWA. HOPE YOU ENJOY OUR WORK !!!

(Translation: GlitterBerri)

(Dragon Source: Original TCRF research)

Version Differences

Newer versions of Dragon Spirit include an area select feature at the start of the game.