is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by

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for the

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and the

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. The player pilots the

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"Caesar", travelling through

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s occupied by powerful supercomputers known as "Starbrains" who threaten the galactic empire. ''Star Soldier'' greatly resembles the earlier arcade game '' Star Force''. Mobile versions were released on January 26, 2001, in Japan as ''Star Soldier Special+'' in 2004, ''Star Soldier SP Arcade'' in 2005 and in 2008, they're also released for Palm OS on November 2001 in Japan and iOS on January 4, 2012 in United States. ''Star Soldier'' has spawned numerous sequels, starting with ''

Super Star Soldier is a scrolling shooter video game developed by Kaneko and originally published by Hudson Soft in 1990 for the Japanese PC Engine and in 1991 for the North American TurboGrafx-16. It is the sequel to ''Star Soldier'', and part of a vertical-scroll ...

'' on the PC Engine. It was ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2004 in

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as part of the Famicom Mini series, and to the

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's Virtual Console in the Japanese and North American regions in July 2007. An enhanced remake of the game was released on

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only in Japan in 2005. ''Star Soldier'' was re-released by Konami on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console on November 14, 2012 in Japan, August 15, 2013 in PAL Version and September 24, 2013 in North America, and the iOS Version, titled on June 20, 2013 in Japan.

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