| 27-03-2012 10:23 AM | |
| TotalAnarchy |
Personally the first time I read about Area 88 was in this article http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-...how/2011-11-06, so not that long ago.  I would say it's fairly possible, since the OVA which was released in 1985-86 in Japan was published in the USA in 1992. That's one year before the release of the game. The manga itself was published some years before that.Considering the theme, the title and the anime-ish cutscenes it's 99% inspired by the manga/OVA. There's also an official game based on the franchise. It's called UN Squadron in the West. 
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| 27-03-2012 09:48 AM | |
| KusanagiShiro |
 I've done a little research based on my own experiences with this game. I do believe Epic MegaGames and Renaissance drew inspiration from the anime/manga series "Area 88" when they created it. To me this is evident both in the similarities of its name ("Zone" is a synonym for "Area", and 66 and 88 are both multiples of 11), and the artistic design of its main character (the eyes do appear to be slightly manga-esque. From the little I've seen of the character's hair, it could be blond, like that of Area 88 protagonist Shin Kazama; the hairstyle is even similar). If any of you have seen Area 88, please tell me if you agree. This introductory post brought to you by:  Eep! *runs from a  *
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| 02-10-2007 01:02 PM | |
| The Fifth Horseman | You can increase the sampling rates set in DOSBox.conf (to 44100 rather than 22050 - altough the quality gain won't be large) and change the soundcard emulation to Sound Blaster Pro 2. Remember to modify the game's config appropriately as well. |
| 01-10-2007 11:15 PM | |
| DarKarvin |
Thanks! I think I got this with teh gravis ultrasound card, and the menu music was really really good. but, any way to get it to sound better in dosbox? |
| 18-04-2007 02:30 AM | |
| faeornran | Hey, this is a fun game! I had the demo a few years back and always considered buying the full version. Mmm, thanks! |
| 17-04-2007 11:56 AM | |
| Dark-Star | IIRC there was an updated version of the game which was less picky on the memory managers you had running. I remember running Z66 with XMS memory just fine.... |
| 23-03-2007 07:06 AM | |
| The Fifth Horseman |
Play the game and find out yourself. 
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| 23-03-2007 05:27 AM | |
| zppz | How does the story end? I only played the shareware levels... |
| 14-02-2007 10:43 PM | |
| Inkubus | I get an error message that it cannot run with XMS driver. I downloaded the current version on this website. Can anybody help? Thansk |
| 04-08-2006 05:50 PM | |
| Guest |
I know i tried that already. same thing happens "this program cannot be run with an xms driver" I think ill have to try a boot disk cause that worked when i played a while back |
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