Yōjūden
| Yōjūden | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Irem |
| Publisher(s) | Irem |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release |
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| Genre(s) | Shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Yōjūden is a 1986 shooter video game developed and published by Irem for arcades. Originally released only in Japan, it consists of a mix of top-down shooter and vertically scrolling shooter gameplay. It was released outside Japan for the first time by Hamster Corporation as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in 2018, under the name Heroic Episode, with support for vertical screen gameplay on the Nintendo Switch.