''Starship Hector'', originally released as ,Japanese title
at SuperFamicom.org is an alternating vertically & horizontally scrolling shooter developed and published by

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for the

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. Similar to ''

Xevious is a vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Namco for arcades in 1982. It was released in Japan and Europe by Namco and in North America by Atari, Inc. Controlling the Solvalou starship, the player attacks Xevious for ...

'', the player's starship has two modes of fire: one to tackle flying enemies and one for ground-based ones. ''Starship Hector'' is a follow-up to Hudson Soft's earlier shooter ''

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'', itself inspired by

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's ''

Star Force also released in arcades outside of Japan as ''Mega Force'', is a vertical-scrolling shooter computer game released in 1984 by Tehkan. Gameplay In the game, the player pilots a starship called the ''Final Star'', while shooting various enemie ...

'', an arcade game that Hudson had ported to the

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in 1985. The background music of ''Starship Hector'' was reused as background music in ''

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 ...

''. The theme also appears in the

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title '' Kororinpa'', which itself has many themes from older Hudson Soft games. The game was ported in 1995 to the

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, along with ''Star Force'' and ''Star Soldier'', in the ''Caravan Shooting Collection'' released exclusively in Japan.

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