Panorama Cotton
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive | ||||||||||
| Publisher: Sunsoft | ||||||||||
| Developer: Success | ||||||||||
| Genre: Shooting[1][2] | ||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||
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Panorama Cotton (パノラマコットン) is a 1994 shoot-'em-up for the Sega Mega Drive developed by Success and published by Sunsoft exclusively in Japan.
Contents
Story
Willows are special types of candies in a world of witches and fairies. Fairy Queen Velvet starts saying things that don't make sense, and the fairy Silk realizes it is because of monsters who are burning Willows (a burnt one was found near the castle garden). The witch Cotton, who loves eating Willows, conveniently shows up, learns of this, and vows revenge.
Gameplay
Unlike most other Cotton games, Panorama looks and plays like Space Harrier, where Cotton is following a fixed path and can only move around the screen using the D-pad. 
changes speed, 
fires, and 
uses a special Magic attack.
History
It is the third game in the Cotton series of so-called "cute-'em-ups" for their unique visual style, and diverts from the gameplay of other Cotton titles. The release packaging included a promotional tea cup, which is now quite rare. Its method of gameplay would be reprised for the Dreamcast Rainbow Cotton.
This is the only Japanese Sunsoft Mega Drive game that didn't come with the "left-opening" box style used with other Sunsoft-published games.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Panorama Cotton/Magazine articles.
Photo gallery
Complete set
Physical scans
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Technical information
ROM dump status
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2.5MB | Cartridge (JP) | |||||||||||
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4MB | 1993-11-27 | EPROM cartridge | Overdump | Page |
References
- ↑ File:PanoramaCotton JP cover.jpg
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://sega.jp/history/hard/megadrive/software_l.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-07-02 23:21)
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 230
- ↑ Beep! MegaDrive, "September 1994" (JP; 1994-08-08), page 16
- ↑ Famitsu, "1994-08-19,26" (JP; 1994-08-05), page 39
- ↑ Sega Saturn Magazine, "September 1995" (JP; 1995-08-08), page 85
- ↑ Última Generación, "Junio 1995" (ES; 1995-0x-xx), page 84
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Main page | Magazine articles | Reception | Region coding | Technical information | |
| Cotton games for Sega systems | |
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Cotton (1991) | Cotton 2 (1997) | Cotton Boomerang (1998) |
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Panorama Cotton (1994) |
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Cotton 2 (1997) | Cotton Boomerang (1998) |
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Rainbow Cotton (2000) |