3D WorldRunner [5 Screw]
3D WorldRunner [5 Screw]
3D WorldRunner [5 Screw]
3D WorldRunner [5 Screw]
3D WorldRunner [5 Screw]
3D WorldRunner [5 Screw]

3D WorldRunner [5 Screw]

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Item Description

Before Final Fantasy rescued Square, three of its future architects made a game about a space cowboy sprinting toward the horizon. 3-D WorldRunner was designed by Hironobu Sakaguchi and programming wizard Nasir Gebelli, with music by Nobuo Uematsu, and it exists largely because Square wanted to show off Gebelli's pseudo-3D scrolling. It first appeared in Japan on the Famicom Disk System as Tobidase Daisakusen, then reached North America on cartridge from Acclaim in 1987.

Jack never stops running. You can speed him up, slow him down and slide left and right, but the checkerboard landscapes keep rushing toward you as you leap bottomless canyons, bound over enemies and fire missiles at anything in the way. Columns hide power-ups such as laser missiles and temporary invincibility, every quadrant runs against a time limit, and each of the eight worlds ends with a Serpentbeast, a serpentine boss you fight with full freedom of movement. It's often compared to Sega's Space Harrier, but WorldRunner's bouncy jumping and surreal, candy-colored worlds give it a personality of its own. Press Select and the picture switches to an anaglyph 3-D mode built for red-and-blue glasses, the first of three Square games with that option.

Uematsu's soundtrack is a highlight, bright and propulsive in a way that hints at the composer he'd become. A darker sequel, JJ, stayed in Japan, but as a snapshot of the Final Fantasy team just before their breakthrough it holds a special spot in Square history. The 5 screw cartridge named in the title refers to the early NES cartridge shells held together with five screws rather than the later three, a production detail NES collectors like to track.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1987
Publisher
Acclaim Entertainment
Developer
Square
Players
Single player
About the game

The battle of a lifetime comes alive in 3-D! The wildest of the space cowboys is out looking for adventure. Now he's got it and he needs your help. A strange world terrorized by Grax, the Alien Serpentbeast, has asked you, Worldrunner, for help. Knowing you can outrun, outjump and outblast anyone or anything, you race into battle. But this is no ordinary fight. These battles will carry you to eight strange planets filled with bottomless pits, shooting stars, and poisonous aliens, all sworn to defend their Serpent King. And each new world is ruled by an Alien Serpentbeast more terrifying and more powerful than anything you've ever seen before. Are you ready, Worldrunner? They're waiting for you!

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