Senjyo
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| Developer | Tehkan |
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| Publisher | Tehkan |
| Platforms | Arcade, MSX, Xbox |
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| Genre | Shooter |
| Modes | Single-player, multiplayer |
Senjyo (センジョー, 'Battlefield'; stylized in all capital letters as "SENJYO") is an arcade shooter game developed and released in 1983 by Tehkan (later known as Tecmo). The title, the Japanese word for "battlefield", is written in the kunrei-shiki romanization style. In the Hepburn style, it would be written as "Senjō".
The gameplay involves the player controlling a fixed turret on a tank shooting oncoming alien enemies through a cross-hair target. A certain number of enemies must be destroyed to progress to the next stage.
The game employs the use of pseudo-3D graphical effects to give the illusion of a three-dimensional landscape. However, the player's tank is fixed in a single location, whereas the enemies can move across the landscape.[1]
Release
The arcade game was released in Japan in 1983.[2] In North America, it was demonstrated at AMOA 1984.[1] The game was ported and published by Sony Corporation in 1984 for MSX computers. In 2005, Senjyo was re-released exclusively on the Xbox, as part of the Tecmo Classic Arcade collection.