Rabio Lepus Special

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Rabio Lepus Special
System(s): PC Engine
Publisher: Video System
Developer: Minakuchi Engineering
Original system(s): Arcade boards
Genre: Shoot-'em-Up
Number of players: 1
Official in-game languages: 日本語
Release Date RRP Code JP 1990-10-19 ¥6,8006,800 VS-90003
Non-NEC versions Arcade

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Rabio Lepus Special (ラビオレプス スペシャル) is a horizontal shoot-'em-up developed by Minakuchi Engineering and published by Video System for the PC Engine. It is an adaption of the 1987 arcade game Rabio Lepus (known as Rabbit Punch in North America).

Story

In the year 6809, the princess of Bunnyland, Komomo Kitashirakawa, her sister Kotomi and their grandfather, King Taro Kitashirakawa, are kidnapped by an invading legion of monsters powerful in both science and witchcraft. It is up to Rabio, a robotic rabbit built for combat, to defeat the legion on a spaceship, an asteroid, and the enemy's planet, and save the royal family.

Gameplay

Items

	Missile 1 (ミサイル1)
	Increases missile stock by 1.
	Missile 3 (ミサイル3)
	Increases missile stock by 3.
	Carrot
	Refills one unit of the shield gauge.
	Double Carrot
	Fully refills the shield gauge.
	Tokkuri
	Awards bonus points.
	Ribbon (リボン)
	Powers up attacks.
	Tanuki no Tantan (たぬきのたんたん)
	Grants temporary invincibility.

Stages

	Stage 1
	Stage 2
	Stage 3
	Stage 4
	Stage 5
	Stage 6

Production credits

• Programmer: K.Youzi, W.Hiroshi, Kin.Chan, K.Murata
• Debug: Hinasan, Akisama, Toru, N.Masaru
• Designer: Shinsuke Nakamura
• Music And S.E.: Naoki Itamura
• Director: Shinsuke Nakamura
• Presented by: Video System Co.,Ltd.

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In-game credits (JP)

Magazine articles

Main article: Rabio Lepus Special/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

NEC Retro Average
Publication Score Source ACE 85 №40, p101 Computer & Video Games 79 №110, p124 Raze 64 №4, p72

	76
Based on 3 reviews

PC Engine, JP
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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 d8373de6 MD5 4b942ff45a454222dd4ec1951e75a72c SHA-1 ebd12a22e2d139a904b8aff535787abc128ad61a	393,216		Card (JP)