Thunder Storm & Road Blaster (サンダーストーム＆ロードブラスター) is a Sega Saturn compilation containing two Data East LaserDisc arcade games, Thunder Storm LX-3 and Road Blaster, each on a separate disc. Both titles are full-motion video games that were previously released on the Mega-CD.
Games included
Gameplay
Thunder Storm LX-3
The game is a rail shooter played over a full-motion video backdrop. The player's helicopter flies itself through numerous missions, with the player controlling a targeting cursor with the D-Pad. Belligerents are highlighted in yellow rectangles. The helicopter can fire its twin Vulcan guns with 
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. Both weapons have unlimited ammunition and can be fired simultaneously. The Vulcan guns shoot faster and can be fired continuously by holding the button down, but they overheat rapidly when used. The player is also cued, via an arrow in the cockpit and a voice cue, to hold the D-Pad in a direction to steer the helicopter. If the player fails to shoot down an enemy or move the helicopter in time, a short animated sequence depicts the Cobra helicopter being destroyed and the player loses a life.
There are four selectable difficulty levels (Easy, Normal, Hard, and Excellent), with higher difficulty levels demanding quicker response times. On Excellent difficulty, enemies are not highlighted by rectangles and arrows do not appear in the cockpit to indicate the direction that the player must move in. The player can also set the starting lives (3, 5, or 7) in the options prior to starting the game. The game awards an extra life at 20,000 points.
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Mission 2
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Mission 3
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Mission 4
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Mission 5
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Mission 6
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Mission 7
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Mission 8
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Mission 9
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Mission 10
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Road Blaster
The player controls a car that drives through each stage automatically. At certain points, an arrow appears on the screen to prompt the player to turn the car by holding 
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in order to avoid a hazard. Icons in the dashboard occasionally instruct the player to brake the car with or activate its turbocharger with . The car must sometimes ram another vehicle in front of it by moving a crosshair across the screen with or , which targets the vehicle, while engaging the turbo. If the player fails to perform an action when cued, the car crashes and the player loses a life. Each action is also accompanied by an auditory cue.
There are four selectable difficulty levels (Easy, Normal, Hard, and Excellent), with higher difficulty levels demanding quicker response times. On Excellent difficulty, arrows do not appear to indicate the direction that the player must turn and icons do not appear to indicate that the player must accelerate or brake (though the sound cues remain). The player can also set the starting lives (3, 5, or 7) in the options prior to starting the game. The game awards an extra life at 20,000 points.
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Revenge 1
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Revenge 2
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Revenge 3
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Revenge 4
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Revenge 5
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Revenge 6
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Revenge 7
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Revenge 8
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Revenge 9
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Production credits
Thunder Storm LX-3
- Created by: Sabu, Yoshi, Rie
- Programmers: Tsuyo, Shin, Tomo
- Sound Programmer: Masa
- Engineers: Taka, Jun
Picture Staff
- Producer: Miki Hirao
- Director: Hideki Takayama
- Animator: Hajime Kamegaki
- Designer: Toshiyuki Yamamoto
- Cinematographer: Masao Shimizu
- Ink & Painter Director: Tsutomu Tsukada
- Sound Patterns: Yasuyuki Konno
- Composer: Hidenori Tao
- Film Produces by: Toei Animation Co., Ltd.
- Presented by: Data East Corporation
Source: In-game credits[4]
Road Blaster
- Director and Producer: Yoshi Kishimoto
- Programmers: Shintaro Kuma
- Sound Programmers: Hironobu Mohre, Masa Yoshihara
- Engineers: Takatoshi Kato, Junichi Nabe
Picture Staff
- Producer: Shuichi Sato, Tadao Okubo
- Co-Producer: Kenkichi Matsushita
- Director: Hideki Takayama
- Clef key Animator: Yoshinobu Inano
- Back ground Design: Yoshiyuki Yamamoto
- Animators: Baik Nam Yeul, Shinichi Imaguma
- Animmators: Shigeo Matoba, Kim Dae Jung, Kaoru Shinbo
- Xerox and Paint: Yoshihiro Maeda, Yoshiaki Okada
- Cammera: Toshiharu Takei
- Editor: Shinichi Fukumitsu
- Music Director: Michael K. Nakamura
- Sound Effects Editor: Kenichi Mori
- Film Produced by: Toei Animation Co., Ltd.
- Presented by: Data East Corporation
Source: In-game credits[5]
Magazine articles
- Main article: Thunder Storm & Road Blaster/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: Thunder Storm & Road Blaster/Technical information.
ROM dump status
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461,772,864
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465,263,232
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CD-ROM (JP)
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T-20701G (Disc 2) V1.000
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References
- ↑ File:TSaRB Saturn JP Box Back.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/fb/segahard/ss/soft_licensee1.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-03-20 23:04)
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "November 1995" (JP; 1995-10-07), page 33
- ↑ File:Thunder Storm Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ File:Road Blaster Saturn credits.pdf
- ↑ Famitsu, "1995-10-27" (JP; 1995-10-13), page 1
- ↑ Saturn Fan, "1995 12-22" (JP; 1995-12-08), page 78
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "November 1995" (JP; 1995-10-07), page 193
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "Readers rating final data" (JP; 2000-03), page 14
or its missiles with 
. Both weapons have unlimited ammunition and can be fired simultaneously. The Vulcan guns shoot faster and can be fired continuously by holding the button down, but they overheat rapidly when used. The player is also cued, via an arrow in the cockpit and a voice cue, to hold the D-Pad in a direction to steer the helicopter. If the player fails to shoot down an enemy or move the helicopter in time, a short animated sequence depicts the Cobra helicopter being destroyed and the player loses a life.
or 
in order to avoid a hazard. Icons in the dashboard occasionally instruct the player to brake the car with 
