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GunHed: Aratanaru Tatakai

GunHed: Aratanaru Tatakai is a 1990 strategy game for up to four players. It is the second game based on the 1989 sci-fi movie GunHed, the first being Blazing Lazers for the TurboGrafx-16. Aratanaru Tatakai is…

13 May 1990

GunHed: Aratanaru Tatakai is a strategy, released 13 May 1990 on Family Computer.

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What GunHed: Aratanaru Tatakai is

GunHed: Aratanaru Tatakai was released in 1990. It was published by Varie. It is available on Family Computer only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

GunHed: Aratanaru Tatakai is a 1990 strategy game for up to four players. It is the second game based on the 1989 sci-fi movie GunHed, the first being Blazing Lazers for the TurboGrafx-16. Aratanaru Tatakai is closer to the movie: the players re-activate GUNHED mech units to defeat the supercomputer Kyron-5 and its enforcer Aerobot. Each player chooses where on 8JO, the island base of Kyron-5, to deploy their GUNHED models, and then fights opponents in real-time combat while collecting robot pieces along the way to build stronger robotic armies. The game culminates with a fight against the powerful Aerobot.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Gunhed series

GunHed: Aratanaru Tatakai is the second of 2 entries we hold in the Gunhed series. It arrived 10 months after Gunhed. It is the most recent released entry in the series.

See all 2 Gunhed games in release order →

What it launched against

GunHed: Aratanaru Tatakai launched on 13 May 1990, within three weeks of Smash T.V. and Gargoyle's Quest.

Released around the same time: Smash T.V., Gargoyle's Quest.

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When did GunHed: Aratanaru Tatakai come out?
GunHed: Aratanaru Tatakai was released on 13 May 1990 for Family Computer.

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