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Last Alert

1989 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2024
Entity authoritySource title only
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Last Alert is a single-player top down shooting game developed by Sin-Nihon Laser Soft. It was released in Japan in 1989 and North America in 1990 for the TurboGrafx-CD. The story is that of a lone soldier whose unit has been wiped out who has been tasked by the CIA to take down an international criminal syndicate.

Editorial summary

“Last Alert” enters the record as 1989 video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Last, Alert and video can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Last, Alert and video.
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“Last Alert” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Last, Alert and video provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2024. The first chronological checks are 1989 and 1990.

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This entry incorporates text from “Last Alert” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.