Aleste

Aleste
Developer(s)Compile
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Masamitsu Niitani
Designer(s)
  • Koji Teramoto
  • Kazunari Komehika
Programmer(s)
  • Takayuki Hirono (MSX)
  • Kenji Shintani MS)
Artist(s)
  • Koji Teramoto
  • Hiromichi Sueyoshi (MS)
Composer(s)
  • Masamoto Miyamoto
  • Takeshi Santo
Platform(s)
Release
February 29, 1988
  • Master System
    • JP: February 29, 1988
    • NA: December 1988[1]
    • EU: December 1988
  • MSX2
    • JP: July 23, 1988
  • Java Midlet
    • EU: July 8, 2004
  • Wii Virtual Console
    • JP: May 27, 2008
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Aleste (アレスタ) is a vertically scrolling shooter developed by Compile, originally published by Sega in 1988 for the Master System and then by CP Communications for the MSX2. The Master System version was released outside Japan as Power Strike. The game spawned the Aleste and Power Strike franchises.

  1. ^ "Availability Update" (PDF). Computer Entertainer. January 1989. p. 12.
  2. ^ "Square Enrix and Macrospace Team Up to launch mobile versions of Aleste, Actraiser and Drakengard in Europe". Midlet-review.com. 8 July 2004. Archived from the original on 16 November 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-28.