Quartet (video game)
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Quartet is an arcade game that was released by Sega in the mid-1980s. Quartet allows one to four players to guide a set of characters through a base taken over by an army of robots. Players control either Joe (yellow), Mary (red), Lee (blue) or Edgar (green) across a number of sideways-scrolling levels. The object of the game is to advance through the level, fighting oponents that come out of portals in the walls, and eventually defeat a boss that carries the door key used to open the "exit door" for the level.
Players can find various power-ups during play, such as a jet pack that allowed characters to stay airborne, springs to jump higher, speed boots, and point bonuses. Each character has a separate characteristic weapon type, which can be upgraded by picking up a colored bouncing orb that bounced across the screen occasionally. Picking up the orb when it is a player's color gives a weapon power up, while picking up the orb when it is another player's color gives a point bonus (but deprives the other player the chance to upgrade).
Available in arcades in the same timeframe as Gauntlet (arcade game), Quartet provided another fun option for more than two players.
The game was ported to the Sega Master System, however, only Mary and Edgar were playable. Because of this limitation, in Japan it was called Double Target.
