Quartet
Quartet is a run and gun video game released by Sega for arcades in 1986. Quartet allows one to four players to guide a set of characters through a base taken over by an army of robots. Players control either Joe (yellow), Mary (red), Lee (blue), or Edgar (green) across 32 side-scrolling levels.
Also recorded as QUARTET
Quartet
- Date
- 1986
- Genre
- action game · platformer
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Quartet is a run and gun video game released by Sega for arcades in 1986. Quartet allows one to four players to guide a set of characters through a base taken over by an army of robots. Players control either Joe (yellow), Mary (red), Lee (blue), or Edgar (green) across 32 side-scrolling levels.
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The object of the game is to advance through the level, fighting opponents which come out of portals in the walls, and eventually defeat a boss that carries the door key used to open the "exit door". The game was released as a dedicated four-player cabinet similar to Atari Games' Gauntlet. A 2-players version, titled Quartet 2, was released by Sun Electronics, as a conversion kit. The game was ported to the Master System, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum.
Key facts
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• Title — Quartet • Developer — Sega • Publisher — Sega • Designer — Rieko Kodama • Composer — Katsuhiro Hayashi • Platforms — Arcade, Master System, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Genre — Run and gun • Arcade System — Sega System 16
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Quartet is associated with Japan.
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In Japan, Game Machine listed Quartet on their May 1, 1986 issue as being the second most-successful upright/cockpit arcade unit of the month. In the United States, the game topped the Play Meter arcade earnings chart in August 1986.
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