Starship Hector

Starship Hector, originally released as Hector'87 (ヘクター'87),[2] is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Hudson Soft for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Similar to Xevious, the player's starship has two modes of fire: one to tackle flying enemies and one for ground-based ones.

Starship Hector
North American cover art
Developer(s)Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)Hudson Soft
Composer(s)Takeaki Kunimoto
Platform(s)Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Starship Hector is a follow-up to Hudson Soft's earlier shooter Star Soldier, itself inspired by Tecmo's Star Force, an arcade game that Hudson had ported to the Famicom in 1985.

The main background music of Starship Hector was reused as background music in Super Star Soldier. The theme also appears in the Wii title Kororinpa, which itself has many themes from older Hudson Soft games. The game was also ported in 1995 to the Super Famicom with Star Force and Star Soldier as part of a trilogy compilation titled the Caravan Shooting Collection released exclusively in Japan.

References
  1. MobyGames
  2. Japanese title at SuperFamicom.org
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