Developer - Namco    Catalogue No. - T-14014

Type - 3D Shooting

Who would have thought that the Mega CD could handle Namco's Star Blade?  Well, not Namco that's for sure or at least not in the way the arcade and other systems such as the 3DO handled it.  You see, in order for the Mega CD to push all though polygons about the enemy ships had to be made from wire frame models rather than filled out polygons.  The backgrounds of course look like the arcade but these are streamed video data from the CD pretty much in the same way that Silpheed is done.  Or at least that's what it seems like.  I don't think it would be possible for the Mega CD alone to produce so many and such clean looking polygons that make up the background areas in which you fly.  Anyway, even if the enemy ships are just wire frame models the actual playing experience is the same.

Seven stages in total of hard core blasting action controllable by either the Mega Drive mouse or standard control pad.