Dragon Saber is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game

Arcade game

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 that was released by Namco

Namco

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 in 1990. It is the sequel to Dragon Spirit

Dragon Spirit

Dragon Spirit is a 1987 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game released by Namco and Atari Games . It runs on Namco System 1 hardware, and was later ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System, Amstrad CPC, Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, DOS, Atari ST, Sharp X68000, TurboGrafx-16 and ZX Spectrum...

, released three years earlier.

Story

The human beings have repeated their own foolish history, because of their own desires. And everything around then has amounted to come to nothing. Advanced alchemy has caused environmental disruption. The world has been filled with evil creatures. And the human beings have threatened with extinction. Meanwhile, the sun god, Amaterasu appeared from the sky to human, and told. "The brave young man Huey and Siria. I grant you this sacred saber." "Show your good spirit!"

Gameplay

As in the original Dragon Spirit, the player controls a dragon who shoots at air-based enemies and bombs ground-based enemies, except this time two players can play simultaneously - player one controls Huey (the blue dragon) while player two controls Siria (the red dragon).

Ports

There were two arcade ports of this game in Japan. One was released on the Namco Museum Encore for PlayStation in 1997 while the other is the Virtual Console Arcade release in 2009.