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4Vertical Force (ćć¼ćć£ć«ć«ćć©ć¼ć¹, BÄtikaru FÅsu) is a shoot 'em up video game developed by and published by Hudson Soft for the Virtual Boy. It was released in Japan on August 12, 1995, and in North American on December 1, 1995.
The player controls a starship, the Ragnarok, that must destroy a malfunctioning supercomputer on a human colony planet before it wipes out all of mankind. Gameplay is similar to Hudson's Star Soldier series, featuring power-up items that increase the player's abilities and parallax scrolling. The player can move their ship farther into the background to avoid enemies and obstacles in the way.
The development team originally planned to make the game a third-person rail shooter in the vein of Space Harrier, however the thought of many similar games being released for the console later on caused it to become a vertical-scrolling shooter.
It was presented at the 1995 Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, under the working title Shoot'Em Up!. The game was directed by Hitoshi Okuno, and composed by both ShÅji Tomii and Minoru EndÅ.
The game's soundtrack was composed by Shoji Tomii, and Minoru Endo.