Quartet
by "Sega of America, Inc."
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Product Summary
Platform: Sega Master SystemPublisher: "Sega of America, Inc."
Product features:
- 1 or 2 players
- Sega Master System
Video Game Reviews of Quartet
Customer Review: Awesome old school platformer
Summary: 5 Stars
Quartet is a great game. It has roots in old 80s arcades, and the port to the Master System was surprisingly good. The colors are vibrant, sprites fairly detailed, and the music was memorable. One of the unique gameplay elements about this platformer that set it apart from others is the use of a jet pack. Once you had the jet pack, you could fly anywhere on any stage, and if your character got hit, you would fall and the jet pack would remain wherever you last had it, which made it challenging to get if you were far from any platforms you could reach it with.
The boss battles are fairly easy unfortunately. It's the type of game where repetition and memorization will help greatly because the bosses all have repetitive patterns.
The third level of the game is pretty unique as far as platformers go because the level is made up of destroyable blocks, so you can sculpt your path throughout the stage, which adds some strategy for the boss (it's a tall boss, so you can sculpt your platform to be at the height of its head to make it easier to shoot him).
The arcade version had 4 playable characters: Joe (yellow), Mary (red), Lee (blue) or Edgar (green), but the Sega Master System version had Mary (who looked like a woman as opposed to the younger version in the Japanese original, Double Target), and Edgar's name was changed to Edger.
Two player is fun, and you can sort of cheat with the jet pack by having one character stand on the other one's head, but you'll end up fighting over the jet pack more often than not. That is, if you're immature like me.
On a side note, if you own the Japanese version of the PS2, this game was re-released as SDI & Quartet as part of the Sega System 16 Collection. You get the US and Japanese versions of both the SMS and Arcade games. There's also a soundtrack for SDI & Quartet with an awesome remix with live instruments of all the Quartet songs.
Wow, this review is pretty long for a game that came out in 1986.
Description of Quartet
Space Colony Number Nine is threatened by aliens. Your job, Exterminate Aliens ! Use special items to aid your quest, like a supersonic engine, a special bomb and a magic key.Kids & Family Games
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