Download (video game)

Down Load^[a] is a 1990 side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game published by NEC Avenue for the PC Engine.^[1] It was followed by Download 2 and also inspired an anime OVA.

Down Load
Developer(s)	Alfa System
Publisher(s)	NEC Avenue
Producer(s)	Makoto Sakio Toshio Tabeta
Artist(s)	Masaomi Kanzaki
Writer(s)	Ken Ohmori Wataru Nakajima
Composer(s)	Yasuhiko Fukuda
Platform(s)	PC Engine
Release	JP: June 22, 1990
Genre(s)	Horizontal-scrolling shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

Gameplay screenshot

Down Load is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up game.

Development and release

While most text in the game is in Japanese, it includes infamous examples of "Engrish".^[2][3]

Reception

Review scores

Publication	Score
Aktueller Software Markt	9/12[4]
Famitsu	25/40[5]
Gekkan PC Engine	78/100[6]
Joystick	82%[7]
Marukatsu PC Engine	29/40[8]
Player One	84%[9]
Tilt	16/20[10]
Amstar	16/20[11]
Power Play	67%[12]

Reception

Down Load was met with generally favorable reviews.^{[4][6][7][9][11]} The Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine ranked the game sixteenth in popularity in its November 1990 issue, and it received a score of 21.88 out of 30 in a 1993 readers' poll conducted by PC Engine Fan, ranking among PC Engine titles at the number 175 spot.^[13][14]

Notes

1. Japanese: ダウンロード, Hepburn: Daun Rōdo