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NES Catalog #045-46
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Section-Z
PUBLISHER/DEVELOPER: Capcom
RELEASE DATE: July 1987 (US), Sept. 27th, 1989 (EU)
ALSO AVAILABLE ON: Arcade, Famicom Disk System
Imagine a shoot-em-up comprised not of fully formed levels, but of half-baked, incomplete vignettes. Welcome to Section-Z, an experimental Capcom-developed game with unique ideas that feel stilted in execution.
You control Captain Commando, a space fighter working to save the galaxy, do good, all that heroic jazz. He’s called into a space station to stop the L-Brain, a destroyer of worlds, presumably. Armed only with his laser and a modicum of health, he must upgrade his weapons, find shields to prevent his death, and not go insane as he swears he’s already visited this part of the station before.
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