ZERO TEAM 2000 – 4 Players Longplay

"ZERO TEAM" is an side scrolling beat-em-up action game released by SEIBU KAIHATSU in 1993 that uses Japanese superhero-type characters. Characters are able to throw and break background objects and use them against their enemies.

Four members of the ZERO TEAM take off to save a woman kidnapped by evil ninja - the end-of-level bosses.

It was published in North America by FabTek later in the same year. The game is notorious for its encryption method on its arcade revisions (a problem that also plagued many of the original Raiden games), making emulation difficult at best. However, the Japanese Arcade version was released as part of Hamster's Arcade Archives on November 19, 2020, for Nintendo Switch, and December 8, 2020, for the PlayStation 4.

The plot is...about some terrorist organization that has kidnapped a woman, prompting a military special force to go on to rescue her. And...that's it. The player(s) must battle hordes of enemies that explode upon defeat, going across six stages and concluding upon a battle on a hidden island.

The playable characters are:

✓ Ace: The Leader of the team, his Diving Kick does the most damage.
✓ Speed: As his name says, the fastest character.
✓ Spin: The sole female member, who has the longest reach for combos.
✓ Big-O: The Big Guy and the strongest fighter.

Key moments:
00:00 ➡ Select 4 Players
00:10 ➡ Stage 1
03:28 ➡ Stage 2
08:33 ➡ Stage 3
13:11 ➡ Bonus Stage
13:53 ➡ Stage 4
21:15 ➡ Stage 5
28:46 ➡ Final Stage
37:18 ➡ Final Boss
42:25 ➡ Save the Woman
43:15 ➡ End Credit

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