Shmup Junkie | The UNTOLD Story of Technosoft Shoot Em Ups @ShmupJunkie | Uploaded September 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Technosoft was more than just Thunder Force on the Mega Drive, Sega Saturn and Playstation. In this UNTOLD Story of Technosoft Shoot Em Ups, take a nostalgic trip through history and learn what made Technosoft one of the most important developers of shmups during the 80s and 90s.

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Hyakutaro Tsukumo's last name was inadvertently misspelled, this is the correct spelling

Full of untold history and revelations about Technosoft and their games you may not believe. Is it Technosoft or Tecnosoft? What other games did they make besides the Thunder Force series? What made their music and OST so amazing and who were their top composers? Do you know of their Arcade releases? What legendary STG developers made their mark before moving on to other companies like Compile, Raizing, Taito and more, making games for other systems like Gate and Lords of Thunder, along with Sapphire for the PC Engine, and Hagane for the Super Famicom. Learn how interesting and diverse Technosoft was, leading to some of the best shooters of the generation, along with many other seminal releases from employees that once worked there. Their deep relationship with Sega and their mastery of the Genesis / Mega Drive hardware. From their earliest games on the PC-88, MSX and Sharp X68000, to the 16 bit console wars and the 32bit years of the Saturn and PS1, along with arcade games they also developed. Discover a Tecnosoft you thought you knew in a whole new light, with details never publicly revealed until now. A definitive history of Technosoft, their Shoot Em Ups, and so much more!
#shootemups #thunderforce #megadrive

CHAPTERS
00:00 - The UNTOLD Story
02:17 - Early Genius
04:58 - Thunder on the Mega Drive
07:19 - Thunder Force hits the Big Time!
10:47 - Stealing Thunder
12:54 - Lightening Strikes Again!
16:46 - Master of the Genre
19:54 - Next Generation
22:50 - Dark Days of Shmups
25:01 - Technosoft's Last Stand
28:51 - Sega goes GaGa?
33:23 - Dirty Secrets
39:19 - Legends Never Die

Follow PrehistoGeek on Instagram for his awesome Technosoft collection and more: instagram.com/prehisto_geek/?hl=en
Most collection images in this video are courtesy of his PGTecnosoft page
instagram.com/pgtecnosoft/?hl=en

Gameplay Clips and Reviews featured in this video:

Blast Wind by FrankFrikiYT (also en Espanol)
youtube.com/watch?v=vFTf_xetWu8&t=258s

All Technosoft Shmups playthrough by STGCVLT (also en Espanol)
youtube.com/watch?v=NJMA6D0gubI&t=1318s

Thunder Force IV Switch Review by Mark_MSX / The Electric Underground
youtube.com/watch?v=QBO_HWBqHS8&t=382s

Some of the games shown in this video:
Sega Genesis / Mega Drive Games:
Thunder Force
Thunder Force II
Thunder Force III
Thunder Force IV
Thunder Force V
Thunder Force VI
Broken Thunder
Elemental Master
Herzog Zwei

Sega Saturn Games:
Thunder Force V (also on PS1)
Hyper Duel - Sega Saturn and Arcade
Blast Wind

NEC PC Engine Games:
Gate of Thunder - PC Engine SuperCD
Lords of Thunder - PC Engine SuperCD
Ginga Fukei Denstesu Sapphire - PC Engine Arcade Card

Other Platforms:
Plazma Line - FM7, MSX, PC-88 and others
Feedback - MSX, PC-88 and others
Hagane: The Final Conflict - Super Famicom
Gran Turismo - PS1
Star Cruiser - Sharp X68000, Mega Drive and others

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Additional Footage Sources
youtube.com/watch?v=PiHQYB2sAUk&t=215s
Thunder Force PC-88
Kurenai

youtube.com/watch?v=4NMElBfoAgg&t=63s
Plazma Line
Highretrogamelord

youtube.com/watch?v=OhZB76s2l3Y&t=2032s
Wibarm
JCServant W

youtube.com/watch?v=fxX4egzU49w&t=450s
Star Cruiser
Retro Core

youtube.com/watch?v=iiSPgxwfwxM&t=341s
Thunder Force 2
Media Pool

youtube.com/watch?v=fxoM9KTlyM8&t=647s
Thunder Force AC
Replay Burners

youtube.com/watch?v=6LHjo_pNWDc&t=1063s
Thunder Spirits
Minase

youtube.com/watch?v=RzB024cLl-4
Herzog Zwei
T 884

youtube.com/watch?v=HOemQuy2JUc&t=397s
Dune
No Strings Prd

youtube.com/watch?v=mAMNnVVB07M&t=619s
Nekketsu Oyako
Saturn Memories

youtube.com/watch?v=6D2sYnr3rIo&t=288s
Arcades in Akihabara
KidShoryuken

youtube.com/watch?v=1lrNa9G7CUM
SegaGaga Intro
Dreamcasters' Tube

youtube.com/watch?v=OAAFsIbncJA
Thunder Force VI
Haidi Retro Gaming

youtube.com/watch?v=AwPqjdpwONQ&t=393s
Broken Thunder
Sabre 470

youtube.com/watch?v=_NtMITIAnJk&t=128s
Feedback MSX
John Hassink

youtube.com/watch?v=MU2FDnKzt5I&t=959s
Herzog MSX2
The MSX Channel