Space Harrier II
| Space Harrier II | |
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| Developer(s) | Sega |
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| Designer(s) | Yu Suzuki |
| Composer(s) | Tokuhiko Uwabo Matt Furniss |
| Platform(s) | Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, MSX, iOS |
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| Genre(s) | Rail shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Space Harrier II (スペースハリアーII, Supēsu Hariā Tsū) is a 1988 third-person rail shooter video game developed and published by Sega. The sequel to the 1985 title Space Harrier, it was one of the original launch titles released for the Mega Drive in Japan and one of the six Sega Genesis launch titles in the United States the following year. It was later released on the Wii's Virtual Console in December 2006, and also on the Nintendo Classics service in April 2022. Like Altered Beast, another launch title for the Mega Drive, Space Harrier II features digitized human voice recordings during gameplay, and is also an example of some of the Mega Drive's early sound, composed by Tokuhiko Uwabo (credited as "Bo"). A graphically enhanced version included with the Sega Genesis Mini 2 was released in October 2022.