
Release
Nov 1995
Player score
80/100
Platform families
1
Editorial overview
What it is
DonPachi is a 1995 vertical manic shoot-'em-up originally in arcades and was the first game from the developer Cave. Settings are mainly woodland and enemies are military vehicles and robots, culminating in the final boss, a huge robotic bee. One of three weapon configurations is chosen at start and then leveled up through dropped power-ups. DonPachi was ported to the Sega Saturn and Sony Playstation in 1996.
Play styles
Single player · Multiplayer
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Action · Science fiction
More like this
CAVE Interactive · Atlus
Connected releases
Core game only
Game data from IGDB
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Arcade

PlayStation 3
Gen 7

Sega Saturn
Gen 5

PlayStation
Gen 5

PlayStation Portable
Gen 7