BundleSega Astro City Mini VJul 28, 2022Multi-item package
Release
Dec 1992
Player score
58/100
Platform families
Not announced
Connected releases
6
Game data from IGDB
Editorial overview
What it is
"Grind Stormer" is a 1993 vertically scrolling shooter arcade video game originally developed and published by Toaplan in Japan and North America. It is considered to be the spiritual successor to Slap Fight. Based around a video game within a video game concept, players assume the role of a young secret agent assigned by the government taking control of the NA-00 space fighter craft in an attempt to defeat the titular virtual reality simulator, rescue the abducted players who lost against it and unveil its true purpose.
The premise
The game takes place in the year 2210 where 'the ultimate arcade machine' Grind Stormer/V・V has finally been released. A VR shooting game, Grind Stormer/V・V becomes so addicting that the government assigns a young man to investigate the arcade phenomenon in order to question its true purpose and to perform the impossible: to beat the game.
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Play styles
Single player
Perspective
Third person · Bird view / Isometric
Themes
Action · Science fiction
Languages
2 supported
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Arcade
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Gen 4