DISCLAIMER: Starblade is property of NAMCOBANDAI. All artwork ©GEOSWORD X 2013.

Hello, Geosword X here to present something nice for the Starblade/Galaxian 3 community.
It's a hand drawn comic I made back in January and I hope it is a good contribution to the community.
Comments (and criticisms) are welcome (I'm not the best drawer in the world ).

To start with, here is the synopsis with cast line up:

SYNOPSIS:
★United Galaxy Space Force (UGSF) FX-01 Geosword, goes on a routine (and uneventful) Patrol Session near Andromeda.
After a brief radio report, Geosword spots the Enemy Flagship Commander! Throwing caution to the wind, Geosword follows the Comander, until he
ends up in an unknown territory of Andromeda. Without communication to Home Base, how will Geosword get home; let alone SURVIVE!?

CAST OF CHARACTERS:
★FX-01 Geosword (UGSF)
★Enemy Flagship Commander (UIMS)
★UGSF Patrol Commander (UGSF)
★Enemy Fleet (UIMS)
★Other ships in Starblade fleet (UGSF)
★The stars and heavens
★Ultra Supreme Interstellar Space Station (UNKNOWN)

Geosword X proudly presents:



Patrol Commander: Geosword, come in, Geosword. This it Patrol Commander. Give me your location, over.

Geosword: This is Geosword. I am currently near Alpha 26972 heading towards NGC224. Do you want me to continue Patrol mission? Over.

Patrol Commander: Affirmative. Continue Patrol Mission until further notice. Patrol Commander out.

~~~~~~

Geosword: Patrol Commander, this is Geosword. I am now 512.3 SKM twords NGC224. Do you.....!!!!!!
!!!!! It's the Enemy Flagship commander!


Geosword: This doesn't make sense. Didn't I defeat the Enemy Flagship Commander in my last mission?
No matter! He's getting away!

"Warp point set. Commander heading towards NGC224. Geosword warp point is located. Coordinates set at N246."

"Pursue and engage Enemy Flagship Commander."

Don't touch that dial! Stay tuned for more!

http://www.tsp.ne.jp/~netanker/day/select/we3final/daywonder1231.html

Here's a small link I found with someones own account on the Wonder Eggs 3 theme park.
The site is entirely in Japanese (in which I got a headache from reading some of it... ) but it provides a few links to some images and videos (which I have not checked out).



I also found this image from the official NAMCO web site (archived) about the Wonder Eggs 3 closing.

*NEW* Score Update:

I finally did it!
1,055,400  5/7/13
Completely spearheads the Starblade Alpha score of 1,006,800!
May post video proof of if soon.

Has anyone else made up to 1,000,000 points score on their respective versions of Starblade?

It would definitely be too good to be true for such a technological marvel to appear on today's consoles. But do you consider the computers that outputted the amazing CGI background images to be weaker than today's high powered computers? If so, today's powerful computers could be able to make such graphics that could match or surpass what the computers of yesterday achieved. Yes, a lot of re-rendering would have to be done but could it be done faster with today's computers.

I honestly believe that today's consoles won't downgrade the quality of older arcade games, because the consoles that came out then, seemed underpowered over their arcade counterparts. I have Starblade on three different consoles (Sega CD, PlayStation One, PlayStation 2) and can clearly see the difference each one was made for the specific console despite being underpowered to the arcade original (although the PS2 is awfully close).

I have seen some LD games appear on PS3 (Mad Dog McCree, ect.) there may be a possibility.

SCORE UPDATE:
990400 10/5/13

Yes I hope so too. As I played the game again the other day, I wondered if they were able to throw in Tekken 1,2, and 3 arcade with Starblade on one disc, why not throw in the Galaxian 3 games? Other classic System 21 games like, Sovalou, are on the Nintendo Wii and they still even bother to put Galaxian 3 on it (and it seems capable on the Wii as it can do four players at once)! 

Hello, Geosword X here with a quick play of Starblade recorded from Tekken 5.
I was pretty excited to find a much better console version of Starblade and this version is pretty close to its arcade original.
Trying to aim for a 1,000,000 points score against my Starblade Alpha score which is included at the end of the video.

http://youtu.be/dNU0XoSryzw

BRUNO YOU HAVE DONE IT!!! Congratulations on all your hard work and effort!!! You now have a masterful piece of NAMCO history completely in working order! Now is time for a celebration! Time for GALACTIC DANCING!!

(If only the Air Raid in my local area was re converted back to Galaxian 3.... )

Also Bruno, if you ever do multiplayer with your mates, could you record the game play in HD? And, I know this seems to be a stupid question but it was in my head for the last few months , please answer the best as possible (others are welcome to answer too):

For the CGI backgrounds for both Galaxian 3 & Attack of Zolgear, do you think the backgrounds were developed from the NAMCO SYSTEM 21 hardware itself or did they use more powerful computers to produce the backgrounds?

And also (another stupid question), of all the villains and bad guys I've encountered in video games, why does Zolgear appear to have a hole in his (its) head? You go inside the hole to enter his body to reach the brain core but why is it there in the first place? All I can come up with is that it could be a breathing apparatus or used for other body functions?

Anyways, congratulations once again and I'll be checking in for future installments!