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3.5 / 5

8 votes

Platform
Sega Genesis
Genres
Action
Player Perspective
Side view
Developer Companies
Masaya
Publishers
Masaya · Dreamworks
Release date
16 March 1990
Languages
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English

Summary

Target Earth throws you into a future where the planet is besieged by relentless robots. You pilot a giant mech that can both stride across alien surfaces and swoop through space at will. The atmosphere feels tense, like every mission could be humanity’s last stand. I find the stark contrast between ground battles and zero‑gravity dogfights especially gripping.

Levels are split into two distinct styles. Surface stages play like classic side‑scrollers: you run, jump, and blast foes across planetary or lunar terrain. Space stages drop gravity entirely, letting the mech drift freely in any direction as you weave through asteroid fields and enemy fleets.

What makes the game shine is the massive arsenal. I can load machine guns, lasers or grenades to suit every situation, swapping weapons on the fly for strategic combos. The load‑out options keep each run feeling fresh.

Storyline

Target Earth drops you into the year 2201, when humanity’s expanding tech lets people live anywhere in space. A war erupts between Earth’s colonies and a mysterious cyborg army called Chron, whose purpose is unknown at first. You take the role of Rex, an Assault Suit Wing commander, piloting a twelve‑foot‑tall armored battle machine that’s the backbone of the Earth Defense League. The conflict starts on Ganymede, then rockets through space, crashes onto Earth, and finally penetrates enemy outposts. As the story unfolds, it’s revealed that the Chron are actually the survivors of a doomed Outer Space Expeditionary Party sent a century earlier, turning a failed mission into a relentless cyber‑enemy.

Edited by Maya Carter

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