Download (video game) explained

Down Load
Developer:	Alfa System
Publisher:	NEC Avenue
Producer:	Makoto Sakio Toshio Tabeta
Artist:	Masaomi Kanzaki
Composer:	Yasuhiko Fukuda
Platforms:	PC Engine
Genre:	Horizontal-scrolling shooter
Modes:	Single-player

is a 1990 side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game published by NEC Avenue for the PC Engine.^[1] It was followed by Download 2 and also inspired an anime OVA.

Gameplay

Down Load is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up game.

Development and release

While most text in the game is in Japanese, it includes infamous examples of "Engrish."^{[2] [3]}

Reception

Down Load was met with generally favorable reviews. The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game sixteenth in popularity in its November 1990 issue, and it received a score of 21.88 out of 30 in a 1993 readers' poll conducted by PC Engine Fan, ranking among PC Engine titles at the number 175 spot.^{[4] [5]}

External links

• Down Load at GameFAQs

Notes and References

1. Matsuyama. Benī. Super Soft Hot Information: PC Engine 新作ソフト Data Base. . 97. . July 1990. 240—241.
2. Web site: This Be Bad Translation #04, Download! . Legends of Localization . 29 July 2024 . en . 14 January 2018.
3. Web site: Download . SHMUPS! . 29 July 2024.
4. Matsuyama. Benī. Super Soft Hot Information: PC Engine 今月の人気ソフト・ランキング. . 101. . November 1990. 248—249.
5. PC Engine All Catalog '93 10月号特別付録. PC Engine Fan. 6. 10. Tokuma Shoten. October 1, 1993. 82. ja.