Galaxy Ranger

The game play is similar to Buck Rogers Planet Of Zoom. Move your fighter craft around the screen to avoid enemy fire, colliding with the enemy fighters, mines, and other objects. Basically shoot anything that moves.

The game is divided into different waves. At the end of a wave there is a command ship which must be destroyed. Some waves required the player to maneuver their fighter through a trench while trying to destroy enemy fighters. With each successive wave the enemy fighters became more aggressive and accurate with their shots.

The first 60 seconds of game play are penalty free, meaning that your fighter can be repeatedly destroyed without the game ending. After 60 seconds, if the player is destroyed, the game is over unless an extra ship was earned.

The enemy fighters are all laser disc generated along with the backgrounds, except for the mines. Enemy fighters shots are computer generated and come from the fighters as they move around the screen. Results in a greater interactivity of the laser disc video and makes game play less linear.

Some of the video came from a 1979 Toei SciFi space film - Message From Space. The rest was made specially for the game.

The game is also known as Star Blazer.

This game can be converted to Astron Belt by swapping the game ROMs from a game that uses the Hitachi LD player. The laser disc was a double sided disc with a Sega disc label. The Sega part number, on the disc label and jacket, was 2005025H. Monitors used in the game were Wells Gardner, Electrohome and Nanao. The Nanao monitors were only used in the Japanese made sitdown and upright games. The games uses the same pinouts as the other Sega laser disc games such as Star Blazer and Astron Belt.