Heaven's Gate
Is a 1996 3D fighting arcade game developed by Racdym and published by Atlus. It is both Atlus and Racdym's first attempt in the 3D fighting game market. While in development, the game was known as "Ultimate Domain", and was intended to run on the Sega Model 2 hardware.
Heaven's Gate
- Date
- 1996
- Genre
- fighting game
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Is a 1996 3D fighting arcade game developed by Racdym and published by Atlus. It is both Atlus and Racdym's first attempt in the 3D fighting game market. While in development, the game was known as "Ultimate Domain", and was intended to run on the Sega Model 2 hardware.
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Released in December 1996, The game was ported to the PlayStation by Atlus, being released on December 13, 1996, in Japan. In October 1997, JVC Music Europe published it in Europe under the title Yusha: Heaven's Gate.
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• Title — Heaven's Gate • Developer — Racdym • Publisher — Atlus • Director — Hideki Yayama Takeshi Murata • Producer — Hiroyuki Tanaka Shinichi Saitoh • Designer — Yumiko Hattori • Composer — Kenichi Tsuchiya Toshiko Tasaki Misaki Okibe • Released — December 1996 • Genre — Fighting • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Arcade, PlayStation
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Heaven's Gate is associated with Japan.
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German magazine Maniac gave it a score of 70/100. French magazine Joypad gave it 75%.
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- 1.Closing credits of the arcade version of Heaven's Gate
- 2.AM show - JAMMA. Computer and Video Games. 181. 56. December 1996.
- 3.Masumi Akagi. アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005).
- 4.YUSHA - HEAVEN'S GATE - (PAL). psxdatacenter.com.
- 5.Ehrle, Oliver. Heaven's Gate - im Klassik-Test (PS). MANIAC.de. 2019-02-15.
- 6.Zapping Japan: Heaven's Gate2. Joypad. 63. June 1997.
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