Galaxy Force is a sprite-scaling rail shooter arcade game, released by Sega in 1988 and built upon the Sega Y Board. The game, which is in the tradition of Sega's successful Space Harrier game, is set in space. Two other versions of the arcade game were released as Galaxy Force II Deluxe Edition and Galaxy Force Super Deluxe Edition. The game was ported in 1989 to the Sega Master System and in 1990 to the Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, FM Towns, Sega Saturn and PlayStation 2 platforms. Galaxy Force II was also made available on the Virtual Console via Sega Genesis/Mega Drive in Japan on February 3, 2009, in Europe on May 1, 2009, and in North America on May 11, 2009.