Space Harrier

Space Harrier is a fast-paced rail shooter game played in a third-person perspective behind the protagonist, set in a surreal world composed of brightly colored landscapes adorned with checkerboard -style grounds and stationary objects such as trees or stone pillars. At the start of gameplay, players are greeted with a voice sample speaking "Welcome to the Fantasy Zone. Get ready!", in addition to "You're doing great!" with the successful completion of a stage. The title player character , simply named Harrier, <ref name=\"racketboy\">{{cite web|url=http://www.racketboy.com/together-retro/together-retro-game-club-space-harrier|title=Together Retro Game Club: Space Harrier|author=Racketboy (Nick Reichert)|work=racketboy.com|date=December 1, 2014|access-date=October 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010212222/http://www.racketboy.com/together-retro/together-retro-game-club-space-harrier|archive-date=October 10, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> he is named \"Harri\" in several [[United Kingdom]] home releases of the game.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dcshooters.co.uk/sega/saturn/spaceharrier/spaceharrier.php|title=Space Harrier|work=dcshooters.co.uk|access-date=September 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724104359/http://www.dcshooters.co.uk/sega/saturn/spaceharrier/spaceharrier.php|archive-date=July 24, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=\"register\"/>"},"2":{"wt":"group=\"note\""}},"i":0}}]}'> navigates a continuous series of eighteen distinct stages while utilizing an underarm jet-propelled laser cannon that enables Harrier to simultaneously fly and shoot. The objective is simply to destroy all enemies—who range from prehistoric animals and Chinese dragons to flying robots, airborne geometric objects and alien pods—all while remaining in constant motion in order to dodge projectiles and immovable ground obstacles. Fifteen of the game's eighteen stages contain a boss at the end that must be killed in order to progress to the next level; the final stage is a rush of seven past bosses encountered up to that point that appear individually and are identified by name at the bottom of the screen. The two other levels are bonus stages that contain no enemies and where Harrier mounts an invincible catlike dragon named Uriah, and on both the packaging and manual for ''Space Harrier 3-D''.<ref name=\"SH3D\">{{cite web|url=https://segaretro.org/images/0/05/Spaceharrier3d_sms_us_manual.pdf#page=1|title=''Space Harrier 3-D'' instruction manual|work=Sega Retro|date=September 15, 2016|access-date=September 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916042737/https://segaretro.org/images/0/05/Spaceharrier3d_sms_us_manual.pdf#page=1|archive-date=September 16, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://segaretro.org/File:SpaceHarrier3D_US_cover.jpg|title=''Space Harrier 3-D'' packaging|work=Sega Retro|date=4 July 2013|access-date=September 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916040708/https://segaretro.org/File:SpaceHarrier3D_US_cover.jpg|archive-date=September 16, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Both spellings appear in the latter game: \"Dark Uriah\" serves as the final boss, but \"Euria\" is seen in the game's ending text."},"2":{"wt":"group=\"note\""}},"i":0}}]}'> whom the player maneuvers to smash through landscape obstacles and collect bonus points. After all lives are lost, players have the option of continuing gameplay with the insertion of an extra coin. As Space Harrier has no storyline, after the completion of all stages, only "The End" is displayed before the game returns to the title screen and attract mode , regardless of how many of the player's extra lives remain.