is a futuristic

role-playing video game A role-playing video game (commonly referred to as simply a role-playing game or RPG, as well as a computer role-playing game or CRPG) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immers ...

for the

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. It was released only for Japan on June 22, 1991 and had a US release as ''Star Odyssey'' planned and advertised but it was cancelled at the time. North American publisher

Super Fighter Team Super Fighter Team is a video game production and publishing company whose primary focus is on producing and publishing new video games for classic systems such as the Sega Genesis and Atari Lynx, among others. The company was founded in 2004 by sa ...

acquired the official rights to publish an English version of the game with alterations to the translation and the programming, based on an as-for-yet unreleased prototype of the US version, and released it exactly twenty years after the game's original release as ''Star Odyssey''.

Super Fighter Team

This game was officially released worldwide, in English, on June 22, 2011 under the name ''Star Odyssey''. It was produced and published by North American company

in cooperation with Starfish-SD Inc. On August 6, 2013, the game was released for Windows and Mac OS X, in the form of a compilation package of three Super Fighter Team RPGs, the other two being ''

Beggar Prince ''Beggar Prince'', originally known as ''Xin Qigai Wangzi'' ( Chinese: 新乞丐王子, Hanyu Pinyin: Xīn Qǐgài Wángzǐ, Wade-Giles: Hsin Ch'i-kai Wang-tzu, literally ''The New The Prince and the Pauper'') is a Taiwanese role-playing advent ...

'' and ''

Legend of Wukong ''Legend of Wukong'', originally known as ''Wucom Legend'' ( – 外傳 ''wàizhuàn'' is analogous to the Japanese Gaiden), is a Taiwanese role-playing adventure game for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis developed by Gamtec. It was originally released ...

''.

Reception

Weekly Famitsu formerly ''Famicom Tsūshin'', is a line of Japanese Video game journalism, video game magazines published by Kadokawa Game Linkage (previously known as Gzbrain), a subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, Kadokawa. ''Famitsu'' is published in both we ...

scored the game a 23 out of 40
Famitsu №132, 1990

References

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