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# RETROCADE and MAME history data # Brian Deuel, Last updated May 2, 1999 # Greyscales for Retrocade's HISTORY.PAK done by Douglas Silfen # Copyright 1998-99 Alliance Corporation/Retrocade Group and MAME team # The latest history file can always be found at http://davesclassics.warzone.com/hosted/coinop # Visit the above for links to other arcade game history/information sites. # Thanx for extracting the UVL database, Kim! $info=History Database $icon=history.pcx $bio =Alliance Corporation =Game History Database =Revision 2 This database, maintained by Brian Deuel, contains information and trivia about the games supported by the Retrocade and MAME emulators. =If you have corrections or =further annotations to the =database, send e-mail to: =classicgames@hotmail.com $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #720 $info=720,720b $icon=720 $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #1941 $info=1941,1941j $icon=1941 $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1990 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio 1941 team: S.Thing, Yokota Yokozo, terukun, Kuribow (object) Sadakichi, Marilyn, Yuki, Kintarou, Harusan (scroll) Akiman (character support) Rekite (character coordinator) Yokota Yokozo (character effect) Hifumi (music) Makkow, Babel-2, Dome (program) (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #1942 $info=1942,1942a,1942b $icon=1942 $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Yoshiki Okamoto 1942 was the first game Okamoto designed at Capcom. He went on to do Gunsmoke, Sonson and many others. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Amidar (Scramble HW) $info=amidars,amidar,amidaru,amigo $icon=amidars $data Mfg. _Konami - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed by Konami Japan $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Anteater $info=anteater $icon=anteater $data Mfg. _Tago - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Chris Oberth $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #APB $info=apb,apb2 $icon=apb $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Dave Theurer APB was Dave's last game at Atari Games. He went on to work on the DeBabelizer for Macromedia with other Atari alumni. Other Dave Theurer games include Missile Command, Tempest, and I,Robot. (Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Arch-Rivals $info=arch-riv $icon=arch-riv $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1989 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Arch Rivals contained a feature to customize the team names and colors in this game. (Brian Peek of RCDEV) Arch Rivals used the same 49-way "pseudo-analog" joystick Sinistar used. (Mike Cuddy of MAMEDEV/ RCDEV) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Arkanoid $info=arkabeta,arkatayt $icon=arkabeta $data Mfg. _Tayto _bootleg - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Arkanoid team: Game Designed by Akira F. Programmed by Y.Sasabe Director Of Hardware & Co-Programmer: T.Sanada Assistant programmer: Toru T. Graphic Designer: Onijust.H. Sound Composer: H.Ogura Sound Effects: T.Kimijima Pattern Designer: A.Iwai (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Armor Attack $info=armora $icon=armora $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1981 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Tim Skelly One of two games Skelly did for Cinematronics that had *required* overlay backgrounds. Warrior was the other one. Skelly designed six vector games and programmed five of them while at Cinematronics. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Armored Car $info=armorcar,armorca2 $icon=armorcar $data Mfg. _Stern - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Gunar Licitis and Chris Oberth $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Asteroids $info=asteroid,asteroi1,asteroi2 $icon=asteroi2 $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1979 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed by Lyle Rains Programmed by Ed Logg Originally called Cosmos, the original design was a copy of Space Wars, except with asteroids littering the playfield as an asthetic effect. (Brian Deuel) Asteroids was the first game to have a top ten high score field. (Peter Hirschberg of RCDEV) Due to a "watchdog reset" built into the program you can only get so many lives before it will restart your game. There was a modified version of Asteroids that was given the nick-name "Turtleroids", it was part of a long series of practical jokes against the vice- president of marketing for Atari that was sick of a game concept called Turtle Races. One day Ed switched the PROMs of the golden edition of Asteroids in the lobby of Atari so that the little and big UFOs were replaced by turtles, thus providing them with a constant reminder. Another practical joke involving Asteroids was a slight modification in the prototype of the game, because Owen Rubin (initials ORR on most Atari high score tables) kept filling up the high score tables when the programmers were not around. So, they modified the program to replace Owen's initials with Ed's own to keep him away. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Asteroids Deluxe $info=astdelux $icon=astdelux $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1980 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Original design by Ed Logg & Lyle Rains-Programmed by Dave Shepperd This game was created out of modified Asteroids code. At the same time this game was being produced, Space Duel was in the works, but was shelved as Asteroids Deluxe was green-lighted for production. This game did poorly, and Atari later released Space Duel to moderate success. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Avalanche $info=avalnche $icon=avalnche $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1978 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Dennis Koble (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Barrier $info=barrier $icon=barrier $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1979 - Format _Vector _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed By Rob Patton The second programmer hired by Tim Skelly, Rob was only 17 when he joined Cinematronics. This game is very reminiscent of the old Mattel handheld football games from the late 70's. The gameplay is not as deep, though :) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Battlelane Volume 5 $info=battlane,battlan2,battlan3 $icon=battlane $data Mfg. _Technos _(Taito) - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio While popular history seems to think that Data East designed the game (because the pinout matches Data East pinouts) the internals of the two 6809 processors appear to be a little more complicated then that. The game was released through Romstar as a Tecmo game licensed from Taito. This was a common practice with games that apparently were deemed to be "second tier" and were not considered to be released in the United States as "hit" games by their original manufacturers. That was a shame since it is a fun and addictive game. (Kim Greenblatt) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Battlezone $info=bzone,bzone2 $icon=bzone $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1980 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed by Morgan Hoff and Ed Rotberg-Programmed by Ed Rotberg and Jed Margolin Battlezone was the first environmental 3D landscape game. The game used a system of bit-slice processors called a "mathbox" to do 3D calculations for the display. This kind of "squeezing the most out of minimal hardware" mindset was what led Atari to create the innovative games it did in the 1980's. Atari has sold approximately 75,000 units. Battlezone was so innovative for its time, the US Army commissioned Atari to create a version of the game for infantry vehicle training. Ed Rotberg was assigned the project, but was very opposed to it. Major Dave Robinson and General Donn Starry of the U.S. Army were responsible for bringing Atari the idea of making a military version to be used in training. It is questionable whether the US Army versions were ever produced, but it is rumored that Videotopia (the traveling video games exhibit) has one in their possession. The volcano erupting in the background was created by Owen Rubin (Major Havoc). Rubin pestered Rotberg to add the volcano, but he was too busy to write the code, and told Rubin that if he wanted the erupting volcano, he'd have to write the code. The next morning, Rotberg walked in to a volcano erupting onscreen and the code listing on his desk. The radar and warning messages were "colorized" by red cellophane placed atop the screen. (William Steward, Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Berzerk $info=berzerk,berzerk1 $icon=berzerk $data Mfg. _Stern _Electronics - Year _1980 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Alan McNeil The title of this game comes from the series of books called The Berzerker Stories by Fred Saberhagen. Berzerk was originally designed for the 6809E CPU, until it was discovered that the processor didn't work properly. The board was then redone to run on a Z80. The speech was done using LPC coding, which cost $1,000 per word to compress at that time. The game also originally had a monochrome monitor; when Defender was released in color, the company re-considered their display approach and re-designed the display using a color overlay board. Evil Otto was named for Dave Otto, who worked for Dave Nutting's Arcade Engineering group as R & D director at the time Alan McNeil did. Each Berzerk unit was "autographed" by the designer. (Brian Deuel) Mr. Peter Bukowski was the first person to die playing a video game, when he died of a heart attack playing Berzerk at the "Friar Tuck Game Room" in Calumet City, Illinois. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Black Tiger $info=blktiger,bktigerb,blkdrgon,blkdrgnb $icon=blktiger $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Black Tiger team: Programmer: Imo (Akapa) Character design: Kuramoyan, Satochin, Kawamoyan, Miyaji, Fukumoyan, Nono, Rattchan Sound & Music: Tamayo Kawamoto Hardware: Crazy Kubozoo The game features several hidden bonuses. Some of them are the classic Capcom bonuses (the four pointed star, the POW, the little cow); some are cameos from other Capcom games (the barrel from Higemaru, the robot hero from Side Arms, the dragonfly and the bamboo shoot from Son Son). (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Black Widow $info=bwidow $icon=bwidow $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1982 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Bruce Merritt This game was a conversion kit for Gravitar, when that game flopped badly. Although it was a fun game, Black Widow didn't do much better. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Blaster $info=blaster $icon=blaster $data Mfg. _Williams - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar Due to the expense of the pseudo-3D generating hard- ware, Blaster was released in very limited numbers. (Brian Deuel) Originally known as "Master Blaster", but they changed the name to avoid confusion with a pinball simulator called "Bill Budges Raster Blaster" for the Apple computer. The 3-D effects of this game were all hand rendered which required thousands of hours of design work. There were only 3 sit- down versions of this game made. The game was shortened from 30 stages to 20. There were Duramold cabinets made but they had to stop using them because they shrunk. One such reported instance was that the monitor ejected out and flew across the arcade and impailed itself on a Donkey Kong Jr. machine. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Blasteroids $info=blstroid $icon=blstroid $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1988 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed By Ed Rotberg and crew. The asteroids used were digitized lava rocks, some of which were painted white. Industrial Light and Magic was commissioned to build models of the five player ships, which were then photographed in various positions and digitized. The game was originally to have areas in which a certain ship form was required to get through them, but the game's production was pushed forward, and it didn't get the tuning originally planned. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Bomb Jack $info=bombjack $icon=bombjack $data Mfg. _Tehkan - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Boot Hill $info=boothill $icon=boothill $data Mfg. _Midway - Year _1977 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Dave Nutting and crew The sequel to Gunfight, which was designed on TTL-based hardware by Taito, which was adapted to 8080 hardware by Nutting, to be the first coin-op to run on microprocessor-based hardware. (Brian Deuel) #This is the oldest game #emulated by Retrocade. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Bosconian $info=bosco,bosco2,bosconm $icon=bosco $data Mfg. _Midway _(Namco Lic.) - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Bosconian was famous for being the first game to have a continue feature. When the game was released, Midway gave out strategy booklets to the game from a display attached to the machine. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Boxing Bugs $info=boxingb $icon=boxingb $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1982 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Jack Ritter One of the last vector games Cinematronics made; very few numbers were produced, and Cinematronics' days were numbered. They would make a brief comeback with Dragon's Lair, but shortly afterwards disappear into oblivion. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Bubbles $info=bubbles,bubblesr $icon=bubbles $data Mfg. _Williams _Electronics - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by Python Angelo and John Kotlarik Programmed by Tim Murphy "What I was trying to do with Bubbles was come up with a non-violent, clean game," (no pun intended) says John Kotlarik. One of three games that came in a duramold cabinet Others being Blaster and Sinistar) (Curtis Hart) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Burgertime $info=btime,btimed,btimed2,cookrace $icon=btime $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio The original Data East version hardware had a cassette module so games could be converted easily and quickly. Unfortunately, the cassettes were prone to breakage, and the systems were quickly junked. When Bally Midway licensed the game from DECO, they replaced the hardware with a dedicated hardware system. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Cannonball (not emulated yet) $info=? $icon=? $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _???? - Format _Raster _???? $bio Designed and programmed by Owen Rubin "Cannonball was written on a Model 33 teletype machine connected to a Motorola MicBug 6800 processor, both which were connected to simple videogame hardware. I hand-assembled the entire program... saving the program on punched paper tape. I recall my first review of the game. My boss said "Can we see listings?" "Listings, what listings?" I replied. He was astonished to learn that I had not used the PDP-11 systems and the two computer operators which sat in the other building who would type in all your code, assemble, and link the program and return you a listing and a paper tape. And so started my videogame career." (Owen Rubin, in a Siggraph article he wrote) The following is from a con- versation between MAMEDEV's Mike Balfour and Owen Rubin: "Game play: a cannon would appear on the left side of the screen. The screen was turned on edge if I recall so the long direction was up). A wall would appear on the right side of the screen with a hold placed on one of three positions (in an early version 3 holes would appear at the same time). A man would run out and stand next to the cannon. The control panel had two controls (both switches). The first control was a handle that when pulled back, would close a switch that would make a small powder keg appear above the cannon and would add powder to the cannon. There was no visual indication of the amount of powder, you had to time this. You could add and stop as long as you liked. When you let go of the handle the man would jump into the cannon. If you pulled it again, he would jump out. When you thought you had enough powder, you hit the fire button. The man would fly towards the wall and one of 4 things could happen. If too little powder, he would fly very short, hit the ground, and while holding his back, would limp off the screen. If close, but not correct the man would hit the wall and SPLAT (a sound I made out of white noise by recording the sound of wet paper towels hitting the floor in a shower, and recreating this in white noise). The flattened man (the picture was a flat man with legs sticking out) would slide down the screen to the bottom of the wall, and limp off. Too much powder and the man would fly over the wall and after a short pause, you would hear a large crash. The correct amount of powder and the man flew through the hold, the crowd would cheer, and the man would come running back to the cannon with his arms raised in an Evil Kenevil way. On this miss case, the man would walk to the cannon. Three to 5 misses (maybe 6) and the game was over. We had an 8 track tape machine in the cabinet and when the game started, a relay would start the tape and circus music would play. The entire game was 2K including self test. Some of the management did not like the idea of splatting the guy, but I left it in anyway. I did Sky Diver right after this game, and since they didn't like the splat, I originally had the person sky diving over water and he would splash into the water if he missed or did not open in time. Then the SAME management came to me and said "can we have the guy splat into the ground?" Sure, I already had the sound. So if you have seen Sky Diver... the guy actually splats into the ground head first with his feet kicking in the air. Same SPLAT. And this game got produced too! :-)" Thanks to Mike Balfour of MAMEDEV for the information. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Cadillacs and Dinosaurs $info=dino $icon=dino $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1993 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Cadillacs and Dinosaurs team: Kurisan, Jun, Matano, Ss, Shisui, Kinmon, The Who (object gfx) Nissui, Konomi, Ohnicchan, Bentobucho (scroll gfx) Yuki Saiko, Cky Gi-u, T. Uragoro Some-P (program) Piro2 Oyaji, Syun, Kiyo (music) Toshi Bull, Nobu (sound) Characters based on a comic by Mark Shultz. (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Captain Commando $info=captcomm,captcomu,captcomj $icon=captcomm $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1991 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Captain Commando team: Kurisan, Ouji, Eripyon, Mattian, Q, Mayo, Ykaru M. (character design) Koi, Powerful, Konomi, Sui, Buppo, Go (scroll gfx) Egawa, Yokoyama, Ueno, Yoshizumi (program) T. Yomage (sound) Syun (sound-sub) (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Centipede $info=centiped,centipdb,centipdb2 $icon=centiped $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1980 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg The first coin-op game designed by a woman. A grasshopper was in the original design, but was later removed from the game. Like Pacman, this game has special appeal to women. (Eric Gorka) According to this usenet posting, Dona Bailey didn't have as much to do with Centipede as first thought: "Actually, Ed Logg had alot more to do with Centipede than Dona Bailey. In an anonymous Atari designers words: "Dona Bailey couldn't program her way out of paper bag..." Remember the famous 8-6-4 GM cadillac engine from 1980-81 that used to catch fire?? Guess who designed this, and used to work at GM before they got 'fired', and ended up working at Atari? I feel it was smart marketing by Ray Kassar and Frank Ballouz to advertise the game as being designed by a woman, but I'd only give her a very slight amount of partial credit for the concept only and no code in Centipede.... FWIW, Millipede was designed almost entirely by Ed...." ("MK DUD", via USENET) Centipede was the 1st UL (Underwriter's Laboratories) approved game. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Cheyenne $info=cheyenne $icon=cheyenne $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, and Ken Nicholson $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Chiller $info=chiller $icon=chiller $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, and Ken Nicholson $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Clay Pigeon $info=claypign $icon=claypign $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, and Ken Nicholson $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Cloak and Dagger $info=cloak $icon=cloak $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Russell "Rusty" Dawe Originally called Agent-X, this game was renamed to co- incide with the release of the 1984 movie of the same name. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Cloud 9 (Prototype) $info=cloud9 $icon=cloud9 $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Paul M. Resch Cloud 9 was originally supposed to be written by Dona Bailey (the coder for Centipede), but she left and Paul inherited it. The original game concept had a plug in the bottom of the screen that the character had to pull to let the water out. This game unfortunately only received one weekend of play testing at one location before being cancelled. (Al Kossow) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Combat $info=combat $icon=combat $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, and Ken Nicholson $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Crackshot $info=cracksht $icon=cracksht $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, and Ken Nicholson $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Crater Raider $info=crater $icon=crater $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Crossbow $info=crossbow $icon=crossbow $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, and Ken Nicholson The first of Exidy's classic shooters. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Crush Roller $info=maketrax,crush,crush2,mbrush $icon=crush $data Mfg. _Kural Esco - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Make Trax has a protection chip, Crush Roller doesn't. The code between the two is nearly identical, except that everywhere the protection code is located, code has been replaced with a couple of bytes to return the correct value and several NOP bytes. Since it seems unlikely that the original programmers just decided to leave slack bytes for bootleggers that wanted to protect the game, I would have to say this is reversed. (Mike Balfour of MAMEDEV) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Crystal Castles $info=ccastles,ccastle2 $icon=ccastles $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Scott Fuller and Franz Lanzinger Originally called Toperoids, this game was originally a 3D Asteroids variant, in which asteroids and other objects fell from the sky, endangering the player. The enemies coming down from the top of the screen was an artifact from the original concept. (Videotopia) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Defender $info=defender,defendg,defcmnd,defence $icon=defender $data Mfg. _Williams _Electronics - Year _1980 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Eugene Jarvis, Larry DeMar, Sam Dicker, and Paul Dussault The macho man's game!! Defender was noted for its sound and visual effects, and extremely hard gameplay. That didn't stop players from racking up millions of points on the game. Literally minutes from the opening of the AMOA Jarvis and his team were burning new ROMs for the display game due to the fact they plugged the first burn into the board backwards and fried them! Due to the intimidating controls, no one played the game and were even rumors saying Pac Man and Defender would bomb and Rally-X would be the next hit. Not only did Defender have the most buttons to use during gameplay (It had 5 buttons, plus a joystick) but it was also the first game to have events occur outside of the players main screen. A bug in the scoring occurs at 990,000 points which allows players to rake up enough ships to take a much needed bathroom break, because everything you shoot after this point earns you an extra ship. Easter Egg: To see the designers credits, do the following while in game play... joystick down, reverse, 1 player start, thrust, reverse, 2 player start, fire, joystick down, 1 player start, thrust, and fire. (Curtis Hart, Brian Deuel, William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Demolition Derby $info=destderb $icon=destderb $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Arcade Engineering Demolition Derby came in a two-player upright cabinet and a four-player flat table that players stood around. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Demon $info=demon $icon=demon $data Mfg. _Rock-Ola - Year _1982 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Demon was created on Cinema- tronics' vector hardware by Rock-Ola. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Dig Dug $info=digdug,digdugnm,dzigzag $icon=digdug $data Mfg. _Atari _(Namco) - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed by Namco Japan Dig Dug was the NOT the first game that Atari licensed from Namco Ltd, as is common belief. That honor goes to F-1, the "3D" racing game that projected a race track on a screen using a rolling film.(Brian Deuel) The first video game advertised in movie theaters as a 142 second movie trailer satire. It was put together by Young and Rubicam over a 5 day shoot and featured that talents of Jim Spencer from the Poltergiest FX crew. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Discs Of Tron $info=dotron,dotrone $icon=dotron $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by John Pasierb, Bill Adams, George Gomez, Atish Ghosh, and Earl Vickers Discs of Tron was originally designed to be a part of the original Tron coin-op, but was cut out at the end, and set aside for refinement and release as a stand-alone coin-op in its own right. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Domino Man $info=domino $icon=domino $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by Marvin Glass Programmed by Richard and Elaine Ditton Graphics by Scott Morrison The main character in the game (as well as the bartender in Tapper and one of the lumberjacks in Timber) is based on a Marvin Glass employee named Mike Ferris who had the same mustache and bald head and wore a red t-shirt all the time. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Donkey Kong $info=dkong,dkongjp $icon=dkong $data Mfg. _Nintendo - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Shigeru Miyamoto and crew First multi-playfield game. Was a quick replacement for an excess stock of cabinets for a poor game called Radarscope. Mario WAS given his name in the original Donkey Kong game.(Some believe he wasn't named Mario until DK Jr). In Donkey Kong, Mario's career was a carpenter. (Curtis Hart) The Japanese and European version of Donkey Kong have the board in the logical order 1-2-3-4, while in the US version they changed it to 1-4-1-3-4-1-2-3-4. In the older versions of the game you can stay at the top of a ladder, and a barrel will never come down the ladder to hit you. They later changed it so that a barrel comes down most of the time. (Nicola Salmoria of MAMEDEV) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Donkey Kong Jr. $info=dkongjr,dkngjrjp,dkjrjp,dkjrbl $icon=dkongjr $data Mfg. _Nintendo - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Shigeru Miyamoto and crew The sequel to Donkey Kong, and the second in the never- ending Mario cannon. This game, although better than its predecessor, never got higher than number 3 on the Replay chart. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Earth Defense Force (EDF) $info=edf $icon=edf $data Mfg. _Jaleco - Year _1991 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio EDF team: S A S, Azvear-s (program) Wan Da You, Ca-Sai, Nekomasa (main graphic) Crayon Gear, Shimizu (sub-graphics) Tawada (music) (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Eliminator $info=elim2,elim2a,elim4 $icon=elim2 $data Mfg. _Sega _Gremlin - Year _1981 - Format _Color Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Clague and Mike hendricks $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Empire Strikes Back $info=empire $icon=empire $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1985 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed by Mike Hally (Gravitar) Programmed by Greg Rivera and Norm Avellar ESB was a conversion kit for the original Star Wars machine, but was released in limited numbers and did poorly compared to the original. (Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Fantasy $info=fantasy $icon=fantasy $data Mfg. _Rock-Ola _(SNK) - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Fantasy was licensed for pro- duction in the US by Rock-Ola. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Fax $info=fax $icon=fax $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Vic Tolomei, Larry Hutcherson, and Mike Craven $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Final Fight $info=ffight,ffightu,ffightj $icon=ffight $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1989 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Final Fight team: Kanekon, Shin, Tomiyan, Yokoyan (program) S.y., Tissue, Prince (character design) Mikman, Okachan, Fukumary, Nissui (backgrounds design) Youki Chan's papa (music) (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Flicky $info=flicky,flicky2 $icon=flicky $data Mfg. _Sega - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Programmed by Hideki Ishikawa and Shuichi Katagi Designed by Yoji Ishii Character Design Yoshiki Kawasaki The game changed name two times during its development: First Busty (!), then Flipp and finally Flicky. (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Food Fight $info=foodf $icon=foodf $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Food Fight was designed for Atari by General Computing as part of a lawsuit settlement for an illegal speedup kit for Missile Command, in which they affixed their copyright. This was one of two games; Quantum was the other. (Brian Deuel) Inspired by the food fight scene in National Lampoon's Animal House. (Curtis Hart) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Football $info=atarifb,atarifb1,atarifb4 $icon=atarifb $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1978 - Format _B/W _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and partially programmed by Steve Bristow Finished by Ed Logg, Lyle Rains, and Dave Stubbens This game was first created in 1974 and originally called X's and O's. It was shelved when Bristow started on Tank, then resurrected three years later. First game to utilize a trackball controller. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Frenzy $info=frenzy $icon=frenzy $data Mfg. _Stern _Electronics - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Alan McNeil Frenzy is the sequel to Berzerk. Added features include the ability to shoot your own exits, and the ability to kill Evil Otto. Finally!! $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Frogger $info=frogger,froggers,frogsega,frogger2 $icon=frogger $data Mfg. _Sega _(Konami) - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by Konami Japan Frogger was licensed for production in the US by Sega. $end #---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Galaga $info=galaga,galagamw,galgads,gallag,galagab2 $key=galaga $data Mfg. _Midway _(Namco) - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Midway licensed this game from Namco, Ltd., for manufacture in the US. Galaga is the sequel to Galax- ian, which was the first RGB color game. Although Galaga was a superior game, it didn't sell the large numbers that it's predecessor did. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Galaxian $info=galaxian,galmidw,superg,galaxb,galapx,galap1,galap4,galturbo $icon=galaxian $data Mfg. _Namco - Year _1979 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Galaxian was the first RGB color coin-op game. Midway licensed the game for manu- facture in the US. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Gauntlet $info=gauntlet,gauntir1,gauntir2,gaunt2p $icon=gauntlet $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by Ed Logg Programmed by Ed Logg and Bob Flanagan Gauntlet was based on a computer game known as Dandy for the Apple II. (Ed Logg of Atari Games) The creators of Dandy sued Atari for plagarizing their design. Ed Logg still owns the patent on the gameplay. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Gauntlet II $info=gaunt2 $icon=gaunt2 $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by Ed Logg Programmed by Ed Logg and Bob Flanagan This sequel's new twists include new levels, enemies, secrets, and elements such as a "tag" mode; in which the player who is "it" gets attacked by the monsters in multi-player mode. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Gemini Wing $info=gemini $icon=gemini $data Mfg. _Tecmo - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Gemini Wing Credits (from the ending sequence): Screenplay: S. Sakurazaki Background Design K. Niwakamaru Logo & Base Design Noise Holic Monster Design Willy Ichiro, Strong Shima, Soccer Kozou Music S.E. Yuhki Test Play Sugar Beet Fay Programed by Clark Gent Presented by Tecmo (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Ghosts and Goblins $info=gng,gngt,gngcross,gngjap $icon=gng $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Toshio Arima (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Gravitar $info=gravitar,gravitr2 $icon=gravitar $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1982 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Mike Hally A collossal failure, the designer of Gravitar would go on to greater heights while helping design Star Wars. Hally's recent programming credits include Gauntlet- Legends.(Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Guerilla War $info=gwar $icon=gwar $data Mfg. _SNK - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio The Japanese version of this game is called Guevara. It's based on the the revolutionary war of Cuba against the Padista Empire that ocured in the 1950s. The first player takes on the role of Che Guevara and the second player controls Fidel Castro. The storyline was changed for the US version of the game. (Santeri Saarimaa) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Gyruss $info=gyrussce,gyruss,venus $icon=gyrussce $data Mfg. _Centuri - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Programmed by Toshio Arima Designed by Yoshiki Okamoto Character by Hideki Ooyama Sound by Mashahiro Inoue After designing Time Pilot, Okamoto did Gyruss, that, although a hit, came out at a time when the arcade craze was dying down. There- fore, it didn't sell the numbers it so rightly deserved. Okamoto asked for a raise, or he would quit. The next day, when he showed up for work, he was informed he was fired. Okamoto is now executive producer at Capcom, where he has designed Sonson, Gunsmoke, 1942, 1943, Sidearms, and was project leader for Final Fight and Street Fighter II. Gyruss is most often remembered for its fine music- al score that plays throughout the game. (Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor") The sound portion of the game uses 5 GI-AY8910 sound chips to generate the music and sound effects. Thanks to Till Oldemeyer for the link, and Andrea Babich for the extra game credit info. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Higemaru $info=higemaru $icon=higemaru $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by (from the high score table): T. Fujiwara T. Arima T. Hara Y. Maki A. Mori T. Kawamoto K. Kamimori H. Fujinaka Y. Okamoto R. Miyamoto (Nicola Salmoria of MAMEDEV) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Hit N Miss $info=hitnmiss $icon=hitnmiss $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, and Ken Nicholson #end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #I,Robot $info=irobot $icon=irobot $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Dave Theurer I, Robot was originally Ice Castles, and was three boards rather than two. Atari had this stupid policy that bonuses for engineers were based on profits from sales of machines, *without* taking into account the amount of engineering resources (man years) spent developing it. I.e., just the sales revenue minus the manufacturing cost. Therefore engineers were motivated to spend ridiculous amounts of time reducing the manufacturing cost. They decided that the only way to reduce the cost of the game was to replace a lot of TTL logic with an ASIC. Unfortun- itely they assigned very inexperienced people to do the ASIC design. The resulting chip had very low yield; I don't think *any* of them worked over the normal voltage and temperature ranges that commercial semiconductors are normally rated for. However, by this time the game was so late that they weren't allowed to fix the ASIC. Aside from the time it would take to redo the chip, fixing it would also require putting it in a larger package with more power and ground pins, and so the board would have to be redone as well. So for each production unit they just tried chips until they found one that seemed to work, then shipped the unit. They threw away a lot of chips. The game had a limited production quantity of 1,000 units with half being exported to Japan. (Eric Smith, Dan Boris of MAMEDEV) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom $info=indytemp $icon=indytemp $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Peter Lipson, Mike Hally, and Rob Rowe Sound by Earl Vickers Music by Hal Canon and Dennis Harper Art and animation by Susan G. McBride, Alan Murphy,and Will Noble Based on the movie. (Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Journey $info=journey $icon=journey $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year 1983 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Elaine and Richard Ditton Graphics by Scott Morrison Used digitized faces of the band members, photographed with a camera designed by Ralph Baer, father of the home video game console. The machine contained a tape loop of the song "Separate Ways (World's Apart)" in the concert scene at the end of each level. (Brian Deuel) Rushed through the 1982 christmas holidays by the Marvin Glass team because Bally/Midway wanted the game to coincide with the release of the band's Frontiers album. They took all the images of the band backstage at a Salt Lake City concert. There was talk of using the game as part of the road show, but that fell though. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Joust $info=joust,joustwr,joustr $icon=joust $data Mfg. _Williams - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by John Newcommer Programmed by Bill "Pfutz" Pfutzenreuter Game art by Jan Hendricks Early machines had a bug that allowed players to rack up millions of points by standing on the middle plat- form and killing pteradactyls endlessly, or until they got tired and gave up. Another bug that became a "cut -throat" feature was the ability to belly-flop and squeeze between tight gaps in staggard platforms. Joust: The Movie? Yes, John has a pet project of making a movie using the state-of-the- art technology that exists today. A game flyer by Williams perfectly sets the mood for this game: "His majesty King Williams will recieve his many subjects at his magnificent Joust tournament in ye Land of Molten Magma and Stoned Clouds. Whereat all able and brave knights shalt ride their bird and shalt fight with lance ye evil enemies." (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Joust 2 $info=joust2 $icon=joust2 $data Mfg. _Williams - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed by John Newcomer Programmed by Joe Hellesen, Kristina Donofrio, and Warren Davis Sounds by Chris Granner Graphics by John Newcomer and Jack Haeger Cabinet Graphics by Tim Elliott Mr. John Newcomer adds new characters and backgrounds with 35 screens to 1982Æs JOUST to release JOUST 2 as a coin- operated arcade title. Blamed largely due to the game industry slump, Williams never successfully inspired a lot of interest in it and less than 1,000 total units ever shipped. (Don Thomas, I.C. When) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Jungle King $info=junglek,jhunt $icon=junglek $data Mfg. _Taito - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio The original game was called Jungle King and featured a character who looked like the well known and very much copyrighted Tarzan. The character even sounded like Tarzan when he bellowed out the famous Tarzan scream after finishing the boulder stage (and at the beginning of the game). So, for legal reasons, the name was changed to Jungle Hunt and the character was changed to resemble a classic jungle explorer complete with the standard issue safari hat and shorts. The bellowed scream at the end of the boulder stage was also entirely removed. (John Bergstrom) There was also another version of this game released, called Pirate Pete. (Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Kangaroo $info=kangaroo,kangarob $icon=kangaroo $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Kickman $info=kick,kicka $icon=kick $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year -1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by John Pasierb and crew Originally a monochrome game called Catch 40, Kickman was shelved for three years until it was taken down and refined. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Klax $info=klax $icon=klax $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1989 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Kozmik Krooz'r $info=kroozr $icon=kroozr $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1982 - $format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by Marvin Glass and Bill Adams Programmed by Bill Adams and crew Originally known as "Mother- ship" it was supposed to use a mirror to reflect the image of a ship onto the playfield. Bill's new design of the game introduced the cute green alien that Bally/ Midway executives hoped would be the next fad like Pac-Man was for Namco (note: the alien's next appearance was in Wacko). (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Krull $info=krull $icon=krull $data Mfg. _Gottlieb - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Matt Householder and Chris Krubel Audio by David Thiel (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Legendary Wings $info=lwings,lwings2.lwingsjp $icon=lwings $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Tip: Do yourself a favor and avoid being sucked into the open mouths in the middle of the levels. They waste time and lives. From an arcade gaming design standpoint, it was a nifty idea to get you to keep spending quarters to get through the time wasting levels until you would fight the end of the level boss. (Kim Greenblatt) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Liberator $info=liberatr $icon=liberatr $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Dennis Harper $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Lost Tomb $info=losttomb,losttmbh $icon=losttomb $data Mfg. _Stern - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Dan Lee $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Lunar Lander $info=llander,llander1 $icon=llander $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1979 - Format _B/W _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed by someone, somewhere on a PDP-11 Programmed by Rich Moore Atari's first vector game. After a short run of Lunar Lander machines were manufacturered, production was shifted over to Asteroids, and the first few hundred Asteroids machines were housed in Lunar Lander cabinets. (Brian Deuel) Atari donated a gold edition version of the coin-operated video game to the Discovery Center of Science & Technology in Syracuse, New York. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Lunar Rescue $info=lrescue,grescue,desterth $icon=lrescue $data Mfg. _Taito - Year _1979 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #MACH 3 $info=mach3 $icon=mach3 $data Mfg. _Mylstar - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Laserdisc _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Chris Brewer and Fred Darmstadt. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Mad Planets $info=mplanets $icon=mplanets $data Mfg. _Gottlieb - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Kan Yabumoto Audio by David Thiel (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Major Havoc $info=mhavoc,mhavoc2,mhavocrv $icon=mhavoc $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1984 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Owen Rubin and Mark Cerny (Marble Madness) Gameplay innovation at its finest. A game that would have done greater numbers had anyone cared in 1984. Only 500-600 dedicated machines were manufactured. (Brian Deuel) Mark Cerny came in the middle of the design, adding one of the space waves (the flying fish) and the last 4 base ship mazes. He also added some objects to the mazes (such as the gun and floating boots) and helped clean up old items that never got shipped. (Owen Rubin, programmer) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Marble Madness $info=marble,marble2,marblea $icon=marble $data Mfg. _Atari Games - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed/graphics by Mark Cerny Programmed by Bob Flanagan Sound by Hal Canon and Brad Fuller In 1984, Marble Madness was the first game for the new Atari System 1 and Atari Games demonstrated the technical superiority of this new piece of hardware with this outstanding game. -It was the first game with such impressive Pseudo-3D-Graphics. -It was the first game with true stereo sound. -It was the first game with a kind of film music, the music really supports the pictures and keeps the player in suspense. -It seems to be the first game that hardly had any repetitive elements during the levels and that had a real "end", the player could win against the machine. There often are rumors on the internet about Marble Madness 2 (Marble Man), a game that was never released, but that was tested in several arcades around 1991. There were new levels and the marble had some "Extra weapons". The marble was personified in death and win sequences ("Marble Man" had a cape and a face) and at least some of the prototypes had joysticks instead of trackballs. Nobody ever seems to have published a screenshot of this game, although there are some pics of the cabinet on some arcade sites. (Bernhard Kirsch) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Mario Bros. $info=mario,masao $icon=mario $data Mfg. _Nintendo - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Shigeru Miyamoto and crew The third game in the Mario series, this was also the first cooperative play game in the Mario canon. Many elements of this game would find it's way into the next Mario sequel, Super Mario Bros. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Mercs $info=mercs,mercsu,mercsj $icon=mercs $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1991 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Mercs team: S.Okano, A.Kume, Kijima (chief designer) H.Nishio, T.Hayashi (character design) M.Gotoh (sound) Y.Katayama (sound programmer) M. Akahori, T.Ohta, Y.Matsui (program) (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Max RPM $info=maxrpm $icon=maxrpm $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Max RPM is known best for it's split-screen play, but not much else :) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Mikie $info=mikie,mikiej,mikiehs $icon=mikie $data Mfg. _Konami - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Minefield $info=minefld $icon=minefld $data Mfg. _Stern - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Chris Oberth $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Missile Command $info=missile,missile2,suprmatk $icon=missile $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1980 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Dave Theurer (Tempest) Originally called Armeggedon, Missile Command was designed at a time that the United States and Russia were locked in a fierce "cold war". The idea began when Lyle Rains received a clipping of a magazine story about sat- ellites. He passed this article on to Dave Theurer who then designed the game. Dave says work on the game became so intense, he had nightmares of impending nuclear holocaust on a regular basis. Missile Command has 2 bugs. At 810,000 you are awarded an almost unlimited amount of cities (I computed it to be 240 at one time). After 255 screens, a screen is displayed with 0x points. The actual points awarded on this screen are 256 times the normal points. After completing this screen (and racking up a lot of points!), another screen is displayed with 0x points, but this time, the level ends as soon as it starts with just bonus points awarded, no screen is actually played. For each of the 30 missiles left and 6 cities left, 256 times normal points are awarded. The screen following this one starts the game over at 1x points, a slow first screen, but with the score maintained. The score rolls over after 999,995 points. (Eric Anschuetz) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Moon Cresta $info=mooncrst,mooncrgx,mooncrsg,mooncrsb,fantasia,eagle,moonqsr $icon=mooncrst $data Mfg. _Nihon _Bussan - Year _1980 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Many clones were made of this game. Among them: Eagle, Moon Quasar, and Fantasia. This game did quite well when it was released, but signaled the end of the space game rush. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Mortal Kombat $info=mk,mk2 $icon=mk $data Mfg. _Midway - Year _1992 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio In the first releases of the game, toggle switches were added at the backs of the ded- icated boxes that did nothing. They were added to appease concerned operators or par- ental groups that there was a "blood" mode and a "less bloody" mode. (Kim Greenblatt) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Mr. Do $info=mrdo,mrdot,mrdofix,mrlo,mrdu,mrdoy,yankeedo $icon=mrdo $data Mfg. _Universal - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Inspired by Dig Dug. The first of a series of four Mr. Do games, this one was the biggest success. None of Universal's games did near as well as Mr Do, and Universal dis- appeared in the video game crash of 1983-84. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Mr. Do Run Run $info=dorunrun,dorunru2,dorunruc,spiero $icon=dorunrun $data Mfg. _Universal - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Super Piero is the Japanese version of this game. The maze graphics are slightly different. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Mr. Viking $info=mrviking $icon=mrviking $data Mfg. _Sega - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Programmed by A.Kawahara & K.Iwanaga (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Ms. Pacman $info=mspacman $icon=mspacman $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio When Midway needed a sequel to the greatest selling video game of all time, Namco was not yet ready to deliver it yet, as Super Pacman was still in development. There- fore, Midway opted to design the sequel in-house, and Ms. Pacman was born. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Ms. Pacman Plus $info=mspacatk $icon=mspacatk $data Mfg. _Two-Bit _Score - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio This is a hack of Ms. Pacman done by Two-Bit Score, who also did Popeye Pacman. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Naughty Boy $info=naughtyb $icon=naughtyb $data Mfg. _Japan Leisure _(Cinematronics) - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio The longer you hold the fire button, the further the rock goes. (Sal Bugliarisi) The bootlegs of this game made it into the arcades before the official release did. (unknown) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Nibbler $info=nibbler,nibblera $icon=nibbler $data Mfg. _Rock-Ola - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Lonnie Ropp and crew First game to support a billion point score. (Curtis Hart) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Night Driver $info=nitedrvr $icon=nitedrvr $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1976 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Dave Shepperd $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Omega Race $info=omegrace $icon=omegrace $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1981 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Ron Halliburton and crew Midway's only vector game. Omega Race was designed as a direct competitor to Atari's Asteroids. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Pacman $info=pacman,pacmanjp,pacmanm,npacmod,pacmod,hangley,puckman,pacheart,pacmanbl $icon=pacman $data Mfg. _Midway _(Namco) - Year _1980 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed by Toru Iwantani Programmed by Hideyuki Mokajima and crew Pacman was conceived at lunchtime...literally. The designer was very hungry, and ordered a whole pizza for himself. He took one slice, and Pacman was born. The name Pacman is derived from the Japanese slang word "paku-paku", which means "to eat". The game was called "Puckman" in Japan, but due to American's predilection with changing words to vulgarities by scratching part of the word off (Puck to..well, you know), it was changed to Pacman. To give the game some tension, some clever AI was programmed into the game. The ghosts would group up, attack the player, then disperse. Each ghost had its own AI. Blinky chases Pacman, Pinky is pos- itioned a few dots in front of Pacman's mouth. The others move randomly. The game took 1 1/2 years to complete, and had five people on its team. Pacman is the greatest selling arcade game of all time, and is arguably the most well-known video char- acter. It had its own cartoon, lunch box, board game, and hundreds of other products. Pacman was also the first game to have a "character", and changed the face video games for- ever. Pacman was the first video game to be as equally popular to women as it was with men. (Jeff Mercer, Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Paperboy $info=paperboy $icon=paperboy $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by John Salwitz and Dave Ralston Game art by Doug Snyder Sound by Hal Canon Animation by Will Noble On Monday, June 30, 1986; Mr. Mark Caesar and Mr. Robin Hallingstad file a suit against Atari Games Corp. for $1 million plus profits alleging that the company stole the idea for a video game that was marketed by the name of PAPERBOY. The boys had submitted to Atari a detailed proposal for a similar game in July 1983. (Don Thomas, I.C. When) An early ROM version of this game had a bug which allowed the player to ride the bike further than the obstacle course, causing the machine to crash. (Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Pengo $info=pengo,pengo2,pengo2u,penta $icon=pengo $data Mfg. _Sega - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Nobuo Kodera, Tsutomu Iwane, Akira Nakakuma, and Shinji Egi (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Peter Packrat $info=peterpak $icon=peterpak $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Peter Thompson Art and animation by Debbie Hayes Sound by Mike Fuller $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Phoenix $info=phoenix,phoenixt,phoenix3,phoenixc $icon=phoenix $data Mfg. _Amstar - Year _1980 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Easter Egg: (IRECSA - G.G.I. Corp version only) On the first level, with the birds in a doughnut shape, shoot the first two birds from the left-hand side, be as quick as you can. Then move your ship as far to the left as you can and wait for about 10-15 seconds. Three birds will fly around then go back to the formation, which should then all move. Three more birds will fly around with one going off the left hand side of the screen, come under and hit your ship. A beeping noise is heard and you should have over 100,000 points and 5 lives. If it doesn't work first time, keep trying. (Forgot who sent this in. Email me!) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Pioneer Balloon $info=pballoon $icon=pballoon $data Mfg. _SNK - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Piranha $info=piranha $icon=piranha $data Mfg. _GL - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Piranha is a hack of Pacman that was released in the arcades as a conversion kit. No lawsuit was ever filed against GL for the conversion. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Pleiads $info=pleiads,pleiadce $icon=pleiads $data Mfg. _Tehkan - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Pleiads' marquee on the actual machine has the spelling 'Pleiades' instead of the on- screen spelling. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Pocket Gal $info=pcktgal,pcktgalb,pcktgal2,spool3,spool3i $icon=pcktgal $data Mfg. _Data East - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Pocket Gal team: Minagawa, Shinichi (program) Kinta58000 (design) Masa, Fusimi, Astaroth, Mixman (graphics) Hitomi, Tatsuya, Maro, Azusa (sound) (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Power Drive $info=powerdrv $icon=powerdrv $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by John Kubik Programmed by Jeff Nauman and crew $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Psychic 5 $info=psychic5 $icon=psychic5 $data Mfg. _Jaleco - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Hardware planned by "Lovely" Yohsuke Software created by "Ultra Man" Naoki [Ultra Man is a famous hero of japanese TV movies] "Lonely" Kazuhiro Character designed by "Italiano" Taeko "Donchi" Naoko Music composed by Cheabow A little game which had not a huge success, but nevertheless was a "cult game" for many players thanks to the brilliant gameplay, hard-to-find secret bonuses and anime-like plot. The inspiration for the five ESPers design comes from several japanese cartoons of the '70s where the physical aspect of main characters was strongly stereotyped to suit their psychological profile/fighting ability. (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Pulsar $info=pulsar $icon=pulsar $data Mfg. _Sega _Gremlin - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Clague and Mike Hendricks $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Q*Bert $info=qbert,qbertjp $icon=qbert $data Mfg. _Gottlieb - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed by Jeff Lee Programmed by Warren Davis Artwork by Terry Doerzaph Audio by David Thiel Inspired by artwork by M.C. Escher who was an artist that Jeff admired. Ron Waxman came up with the idea of Q*Bert changing the color of the cubes. Q*Bert's name originated by the combination of cube and Hubert, but the "Cube-Bert" was changed to "Q-Bert" to make it more unique. The concept game was called "Snots and Boogers" and then "@!#?@!" (which many of the programmers and Gottlieb VPs said would be impossible to get anyone to say) before the final version was called just "Q*Bert". Slick and Sam were a play on the phrase "spick and span" with Sam being named after co-worker Sam Russo. Rick Tighe came up with the idea of adding the pinball hardware which generated the very mechanical KA-CHUNK when Q*Bert falls off the pyramid.(William Steward) #end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Q*Bert's Qubes $info=qbertqub $icon=qbertqub $data Mfg. _Mylstar - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Neil Burnstein Audio by David Thiel Artwork by Terry Doerzaph This game was the first to have used both Mylstar and Gottlieb (Gottlieb was renamed Mylstar not too soon after the game was released, Warren Davis also joked that Mylstar is Rat Slime spelled backwards) on two different versions of the marquee. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Qix $info=qix,qixa,qix2 $icon=qix $data Mfg. _Taito _America - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Randy and Sandy Pfeiffer One of the few American Taito designs, Qix initially did big numbers, but quickly died when players discovered the machine was "unbeatable." Having a googleplex of possible combinations, there was no singular pattern to the game, and players lost interest. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Quantum $info=quantum,quantum1 $icon=quantum $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1982 - Format _Vector _Vertical $bio Quantum was designed by General Computer Corp. for Atari as part of a lawsuit settlement for a Missile Command speedup kit to which they affixed their copyright. Quantum was one of the games, Food Fight was the other. (Brian Deuel) Quantum was a conversion kit for Space Duel and Gravitar. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Qwak (Prototype) $info=qwakprot $icon=qwakprot $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Mark Cerny This is the prototype of the released version. Originally designed to have a touch-screen interface. (Mike Balfour of MAMEDEV) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Rampage $info=rampage $icon=rampage $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Horz. $bio Designed and programmed by Arcade Engineering $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Rastan $info=rastan,rastsaga $icon=rastan $data Mfg. _Taito - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio From the end credits: Game Design: Nenko Nishimura Game Program: Yoshinori Kobayashi, Hideaki Tomioka, Touru Takahashi, Hideo Kazama Char. Design: Nenko Nishimura Art Design: Nenko Nishimura, Taira Sanuki, Seiji Kawakami, Genzou Kuriki Hardware Engineer: Noboru Takeshita Hardware Design: Masahiro Yamaguchi Music Composer And Sound Effects: Naoto Yagishita, Masahiko Takaki Art Advisor: Junji Yarita Special Thanks to manager Mr. Sanbe (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Reactor $info=reactor $icon=reactor $data Mfg. _Gottlieb - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and Programmed by Tim Skelly Audio by David Thiel First called Ram-It, then Expander, Reactor was Skelly's first game design upon going inde- pendant. He designed a number of games for Gottlieb (none of which were released) before taking an ex- tended break in which he watched horror movies, drank margaritas, and wrote a screenplay! (Brian Deuel, William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Red Baron $info=redbaron $icon=redbaron $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1980 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Red Baron was a conversion kit for Battlezone. The game did poorly in the arcades. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Regulus $info=regulus $icon=regulus $data Mfg. _Sega - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Programmed by Hideki Ishikawa and Shuichi Katagi Designed by Yoji Ishii Character Design Yoshiki Kawasaki This team also worked on Flicky. (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Rescue $info=rescue $icon=rescue $data Mfg. _Stern - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Chris Oberth $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Return To Vax $info=mhavocrv $icon=mhavoc $data Mfg. _Atari _hack Year _1984,97 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Modifications of original by Jess Askey Return To Vax is a hack of Major Havoc. Changes include new levels and easier gameplay. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Ripoff $info=ripoff $icon=ripoff $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1979 - Format _B/W _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Tim Skelly One of the greatest co- operative two player games ever created. Skelly's name appears on Reactor, another one of his designs. Tim was one of the first independent game designers. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Road Blasters $info=roadblst $icon=roadblst $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Roadrunner $info=roadrunn $icon=roadrunn $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Norm Avellar, Greg Rivera, Mike Hally, and Sam Comstock Art and animation by Susan G. McBride Audio by Hal Canon Based on the Warner Bros. cartoon. (Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Robotron $info=robotron,robotryo $icon=robotron $data Mfg. _Williams _Vidkidz - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar (Vidkidz) The design of Robotron was influenced by Berzerk and the Commodore PET game Chase. It's original concept name was "Robot Wars: 1984." The prototype of the game was built on a Defender platform with a Stargate board and two Atari 2600 joysticks attached to a pail. Jarvis came up with the control design after breaking his hand in an auto- mobile accident. Williams is sued by Walt Disney Productions for copyright and patent infringement regarding Williams use of "tron" in Robotron. Williams wins the suit and Walt Disney releases Tron on time. Easter Egg: To see the designers credits, do the following while in game play ... move right and fire up and hit the player 1 start key, then move up and fire down and hit the player 2 start key, and finally move down and fire up (while holding the fire up you see the message). (Brian Deuel, William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Root Beer Tapper $info=rbtapper $icon=rbtapper $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Steve Meyer. Graphics by Scott Morrison Sound by Elaine Ditton The main character in the game (as well as the guy in Domino Man and one of the lumberjacks in Timber) is based on a Marvin Glass employee named Mike Ferris who had the same mustache and bald head and wore a red t-shirt all the time. This version of Tapper originated because Aladdin's Castle arcades needed a more family oriented version. (William Steward) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Sarge $info=sarge $icon=sarge $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Arcade Engineering Hidden deep inside the graphics roms is a risque' version of the woman shown at the beginning of the game. An easter egg, perhaps? $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Satan's Hollow $info=shollow,shollow2 $icon=shollow $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Arcade Engineering, who designed a slew of games for Midway before being bought out by them in 1985. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Scramble $info=scramble,scrambls,scramblb $icon=scramble $data Mfg. _Stern _(Konami) - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Licensed from Konami by Stern Called the poor man's Defender, this was one of the first multi-level space shooters, if not the first. $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Shinobi $info=shinobi $icon=shinobi $data Mfg. _Sega - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Section Z $info=sectionz $icon=sectionz $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Programmed by Toshio Arima (Andrea Babich) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Showdown $info=showdown $icon=showdown $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1988 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, and Ken Nicholson $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Sinistar $info=sinistar,sinista2 $icon=sinistar $data Mfg. _Williams - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Noah Falstein, RJ Mical, John Newcommer, Jack Haegar, and Sam Dicker Sinistar started out life as Juggernaut, then Dark Star. (Curtis Hart) There was an office joke that when the Sinistar said "Run Coward", it sounded like "Ron Howard", which is where is recieved its nickname: "Opie-Star" Easter Egg: The designers credits are hidden within the game but can only be seen after entering 3 credits and doing a series of movements and key presses, which the programmers have now forgotten. Easter Egg 2: There is a bug in the game that allows an enemy shot still on screen to kill you while you are spinning in Sinistar's mouth, thus killing you twice. However, this bug can be used to your advantage because if you have no extra lives left before you get double killed your lives count goes to -1 (which in computer speak is a really big number, so this "cheat" allows you to get a major power-up). (William Steward) The game's original program was changed to make it more difficult, due to management decisions that it was too easy. According to the de- signers, this was totally against their wishes, as it spoiled a perfect balance of gameplay and the game's smooth animation sequences. RJ Mical has the original program burned into a set of roms in his possession, so maybe someday....? Some Sinistar machines came in a Duramold cabinet. Only three other games came in this cabinet, and are highly sought out colectors items. There is another romset of this game available. See Sinistar (Prototype) for details. (Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Sinistar (Prototype), aka Sinistar Rare $info=oldsin,sinista1 $icon=sinistar $data Mfg. _Williams - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio This romset is allegedly from a early release machine that was displayed at the 1982 AMOA show in Las Vegas. Two Sinistar programmers, RJ Mical and Noah Falstein, believe this to be so, but it's not confirmed. Here's some gameplay info and differences courtesy of Sinistar page and Doug Stoffa, from whose machine these images were dumped: 1.Sinistar scream cuts off during quick re-triggers, rather than one long scream. 2.More crystals per planetoid. 3.Sinistar death sometimes occurs offscreen. 4.Warp to next level in random direction,not just upper right. 5.Some parameters in operator adjust screen not present, such as set attract mode message. 6.You don't spin out when eaten by the Sinistar. You just explode when you get too close. 7.Once Sinistar is defeated, you do not get locked into your location on the screen. You can move as if he were still alive.The warping direction is not random as initially thought, but is in the direction your ship is facing when the battle computer engages warp engines. 8.The set has some other weird behavior which I will call screen wrapping. It involves enemies passing through the window of gameplay and then re-appearing immediately. 9. The FIRE button advances the letter entry for high scores rather than the joystick's move-right. 10.Instead of having the word "SINISTAR" appear in red in the center of the screen in the standard font this set has a big red word SINISTAR in the shape of the word on the marquee appear before all the standard font SINISTARs pop up. It drips blood in a few places. Special thanks to Peter Freeman and Doug Stoffa. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Slap Fight $info=slapfigh,slapbtjp $icon=slapfigh $data Mfg. _Taito - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Easter Egg: Dont shoot at the beginning of the game. Try to stay alive for as long as possible without firing a single shot. The game should give you a huge bonus, depending on how far you can stay alive without firing. In addition to this you get teleported to another level, and get some nice weapons. (Frode Gjerde) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Snow Brothers $info=snowbros,snowbroa $icon=snowbros $data Mfg. _Toaplan _(Romstar) - Year _1990 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio This game was licensed by Toaplan for manufacture by Romstar. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Solar Fox $info=solarfox $icon=solarfox $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Arcade Engineering Contained a "skip-a-rack" feature, where if the player beats the timer, he could.... Skip-a-rack!!! $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Solar Quest $info=solarq $icon-solarq $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1981 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Scott Boden (Star Castle) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Space Duel $info=spacduel $icon=spacduel $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1980 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and partially programmed by Owen Rubin Finished by Rick Maurer The original sequel to Asteroids, it was shelved when Asteroids Deluxe was green-lighted for production. When Asteroids Deluxe tanked, this game was taken off the shelf and released to moderate success.(Brian Deuel) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Space Dungeon $info=sdungeon $icon=sdungeon $data Mfg. _Taito _America - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Rex Battenberg Space Dungeon is one of the few American- designed Taito games. ("KGB") $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Space Invaders $info=invaders,earthinv,spaceatt,sinvemag,cosmicmo,alieninv,si_tv,si_cv,si_sv $icon=invaders $data Mfg. _Midway _(Taito) - Year _1978 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Toshihiro Nishikado Licensed by Midway for production in the US The game that started the whole damn craze!! SI caused a yen shortage in Japan. Many regular produce and goods stores in Japan removed their products and converted into SI parlors overnight, complete with giant speakers broadcasting the "thump-thump-thump" of the marching invaders. A classic in every sense of the word. Space Invaders was the first arcade game to work it's way out of seedy arcades and into pizza parlors and ice cream shops. (Curtis Hart) The SI phenomenon stuns conservative adults who are certain the games sour the minds of their youngsters. Residents of Mesquite, Texas push the issue all the way to the Supreme Court in their efforts to ban the illicit machines from their Bible-belt community. (William Steward) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Space Invaders PII $info=invadpt2,invdelux $icon=invadpt2 $data Mfg. _Taito - Year _1979 - Format _B/W _Overlay _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Toshihiro Nishikado The true sequel to the original. Midway licensed a different version for US consumption (SI Deluxe). Changes in gameplay include invaders that march forward, invaders that split to form two when shot, another bonus ship that flies by above the invaders, intermissions between racks, and the famous "rainbow bonus." $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Space Wars $info=spacewar $icon=spacewar $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1977 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Original design (Spacewar!) by Steve Russell on a PDP-1 mainframe in 1962 Hardware design and game program for Cinematronics by Larry Rosenthal Space Wars was the first vector game. Many buttons, a gigantic cabinet. The game was originally brought to Midway, but Rosenthal balked at their ridiculous royalty offer. He sold the game and hardware to Cinematronics, and signed a contract for 50% of the royalties; unheard of in those days. Rosenthal later left Cinematronics, taking all technical documents with him, and leaving poor Tim Skelly to scrounge for information. Luckily, he found a tech who had helped Rosenthal when he was pressed for time and obtained the opcodes and technical info needed. Cinematronics sued Rosenthal, but they settled, with Larry's company, Vectorbeam, being bought by Cinematronics. Looks like ol' Larry made out like a bandit!! $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Spectar $info=spectar $icon=spectar $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1980 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Spectar is the sequel to Targ. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Speed Coin (prototype) $info=spdcoin $icon=spdcoin $data Mfg. _Stern - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed by Thomas Baron Programmed by Keith Enge $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Speed Freak $info=speedfrk $icon=speedfrk $data Mfg. _Vectorbeam - Year _1978 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio From KLOV (http://www.tc. umn.edu/~johns594/arcade/ klov/): This driving game is very intense. Your perspective is somewhat overhead and behind the hood of the car. A very fast game. In fourth gear you are moving extremely fast and control is difficult, making for exciting and hectic manuevers. The oncoming traffic is always the same car composed of 3-dimensional "wireframe" vector graphics -- very impressive and ahead of their time -- similar to the enemy tanks in Battlezone. The stationary objects are not as impressive and usually crudely rendered. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Speed Rumbler $info=srumbler,srumblr2 $icon=srumbler $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Programmer: Yukio Arai and Kyoko Tomita Character Design by Chieko Ryugo, Kimio, Couichi Yotsui Music by Tamayo Kawamoto and Harumi Ihara Hardware by Shinji Kuchino and Katuhiko Kamimori (Andrea Babich) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Splat $info=splat $icon=splat $data Mfg. _Williams - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bios Designed and programmed by John Newcommer (Joust) and Sam Dicker Inspired by the food fight scene of Animal House. John came up with the idea of removeable heads to extend the life of the characters, plus thought it was a unique twist to the game. (William Steward) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Sprint $info=sprint1,sprint2 $icon=sprint1 $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1978 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Dennis Koble (William Steward) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Spy Hunter $info=spyhunt $icon=spyhunt $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Bill Adams and crew The car was based on one of the designer's own Nissan 280z.The game was to have a helicopter stage but the designers ran out of resources. They also wanted the James Bond theme to play, but settled for the Peter Gunn theme instead. (Curtis Hart) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Star Castle $info=starcas $icon=starcas $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1981 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed by Tim Skelly Programmed by Scott Boden The star constellation in the background was actually the outline of a centerfold from a 1980 issue of OUI magazine. When management found out after shipping about 5000 units, they flipped out and almost stopped production. They eventually came to their senses and nothing was changed. (Cameron MacMillan) The Atari 2600 game "Yar's Revenge" originated from a rough version of Star Castle for that system which never made it to production. (William Steward) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Star Fire $info=starfire $icon=starfire $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1979 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio If you enter SKO it will put "HI SUSAN" on the screen for a second or two before showing the high-score table. My part- time arcade help that did this was Susan K. Owen.Was she ever surprised! I asked Exidy and Susan was the programmers girlfriend. As far as I know, they did get married. (Forwarded to Gareth Long of MAMEDEV by anonymous) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Star Hawk $info=starhawk $icon=starhawk $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1979 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Tim Skelly Skelly wrote the entire Star Hawk program in opcodes while the develop- ment tools were being written for the board. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Star Wars $info=starwars $icon=starwars $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1983 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Mike Hally, Earl Vickers and Rick Moncrief The basic game engine for Star Wars was converted from a 2-year old space game project called Warp-Speed, which was designed to develop 3-D image capabilities. The controls were adapted from the controls used for Army Battlezone. (Curtis Hart) As Luke's Tie-Fighter zooms toward the Death Star, players can barely make out the words, "May The Force Be With You" on the Death Star's face. Star Wars was the first Atari game to have speech. All of the phrases were taken directly from the movie. If the player hits Darth Vader's Tie Fighter 30 times, the player is awarded 255 extra shields. (Jeff Burks) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Stargate $info=stargate $icon=stargate $data Mfg. _Williams - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar Stargate was the first game designed by Vidkidz, the design firm founded by Jarvis and DeMar when they decided to go independent. Williams became desperate for a game after the designers left, so they took Vidkidz under contract. Stargate took four months to complete. All Vidkidz games were designed on a dual 8" floppy, 1 Mhz 6809 Motorola Exorcisor system that cost $30,000(!) in those days. (Brian Deuel) The name was changed to Defender II right after the game had stopped being manufactured, because Williams wanted to make sure they could own the trademark on the title. (Curtis Hart) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Street Fighter 2 $info=sf2,sf2a,sf2b,sf2e,sf2j $icon=sf2 $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1991 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Street Fighter 2 team: Character Designer: S.Y., Ikusan.Z, Sho, Erichan, Pigmon, Katuragi, Mak!!, Manbou, Ballboy, Kurisan, Q Kyoku, Mikiman, Tanuki, Yamachan, S'Taing, Nissui, Buppo, Ziggy, Zummy, Nakamura and Okazaki Programmer: Shin, Marina, Macchan, Ecchro!! Sound: Shimo-P., Oyaji-Oyaji To see the programmer's credits in SF2 you have to finish the game on one coin. If you can complete SF2 without losing a round, you'll also be able to see a tiny picture of every programmer. (Andrea Babich) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Subs $info=subs $icon=subs $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1977 - Format _Raster _Horizontal _Two monitors $bio Subs was the first multi- monitor game. Players stood on opposite sites of each other and used radar to find the others hidden sub, and blow it away. (Mike Balfour of MAMEDEV) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Sundance $info=sundance $icon=sundance $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1979 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Tim Skelly Sundance had grids in space years before Tempest. Skelly felt the game lacked the anxiety element needed in a good game, and begged Cinematronics not to release it. He was right :) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Super Cobra $info=scobra,scobras,scobrab $icon=scobra $data Mfg. _Stern _(Konami) - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Licensed from Konami by Stern for manufacture in the US Super Cobra is the sequel to Scramble. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Super Space Invaders $info=ssi $icon=ssi $data Mfg. _Taito - Year _1990 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio The third update to Space Invaders (the second was Return of the Invaders). $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Super Sprint and Championship Sprint $info=ssprint,csprint $icon=ssprint $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Robert Weatherby and Kelly Turner Art and animation by Will Noble, Kris Moser, and Sam Comstock Audio by Hal Canon The sequel to Sprint II, these games carry on the same simple gameplay while adding a few new elements, such as the ability to pick up wrenches for adding modi- fications to the player's car, and challenging new tracks. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Superman $info=superman $icon=superman $data Mfg. _Taito - Year _1988 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Superman team: Hidehiro Fujiwara (game design) Tohru Sugawara, Hideaki Tomioka, Hideki Hashimoto, Mari Iwano, Tadakazu Aono (program) Nenko Nishimura (character design) Yoshihiro Wakita, Junji Yarita, Taira Sanuki, Shinobu Iwabuchi, Akira Saito, Minori Ishino, Takako Kozima, Toshiyuki Nishimura (art design) Noboru Yasukawa (hardware) Masahiko Takaki, Kazuyuki Ohnui, Splatter A., Takami Asano (music sfx) Natsuki Hirosawa (graphic design) (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tailgunner $info=tailg $icon=tailg $data Mfg. _Cinematronics _(Exidy) - Year _1980 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed by Tim Skelly Programmed by Scott Boden Exidy licensed Tailgunner for production of cockpit units with the name Tail Gunner II. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tapper $info=tapper,sutapper $icon=tapper $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1983 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Steve Meyer Graphics by Scott Morrison Sound by Elaine Ditton There were three versions of Tapper released: Root Beer, Budweiser, and Sun- tary (UK). The main character in the game (as well as the guy in Domino Man and one of the lumberjacks in Timber) is based on a Marvin Glass employee named Mike Ferris who had the same mustache and bald head and wore a red t-shirt all the time. This game was play tested in a Chicago-area Rush Street bar called the Snuggery with much positive feedback. Digitized beltches were going to be used in the game, but they never made it into the final version. The early prototype of the machine that Morrison threw together used a Gorf joystick, an Atari joystick, 4 phone buttons, and a few other gizmos. Easter Egg: To see the designers credits, hold down both tappers and both joysticks then hit the 1P and 2P buttons while the logo is filling up with beer in the attract mode. (William Steward) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Targ $info=targ $icon=targ $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1980 - Format _Format _Horizontal $bio Many more successful games borrowed elements from Targ, but the game didn't do too well in the arcades. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tazz-Mania $info=tazmania,tazmani2 $icon=tazmania $data Mfg. _Stern - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Chris Oberth and Gunar Licitis $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles $info=tmnt,tmntj,tmht2p,tmnt2pj $icon=tmnt $data Mfg. _Konami - Year _1989 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio TMNT team: G. Suzuki (program) Mariyanma 25 (characters) K. Hattori (graphic) Y. Asano (visual) K. Yamashita (animation) S. Tasaka, Imo Hideto (sound) M. Izumi, Miki Chang (music) S. Matsumoto (hardware) (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tehkan World Cup $info=tehkanwc $icon=tehkanwc $data Mfg. _Tehkan - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Program: MICHISHITO ISHIZUKA Planning: SHINICHIROH TOMIE Music: TSUKASA MASUKO Character: RIE YATOMI Cabinet Design: KOHJI OKADA Illustration: HIDEYUKI YOKOYAMA (Roberto Fresca of MAMEDEV) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tempest $info=tempest,tempest1,tempest2 $icon=tempest $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1980 - Format _Vector _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by Dave Theurer The first game to use Color- Quadrascan and Skill-Step, both features unique to Atari vector games. Tempest was originally a 3-D Space Invaders clone, but was changed when the other engineers didn't come back to play the game. This was kind of a test for an Atari game;if the engineers kept coming back to play a new game, it was considered a hit.The first prototype of the game had the shape wireframe spinning and the gunner remaining stationary, but that caused motion sickness after a period of time so it was changed around. The design for Tempest came to Theurer in a dream; of a hole in the ground with monsters crawling out of it and him trying to stop them. Tempest sold 20,000 units to distributors before it was even released. (William Steward) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tempest Tubes $info=temptube $icon=tempest $data Mfg. _Atari _(hack) - Year _1980 - Format _Vector _Vertical $bio This is a hack of the original Tempest that changes the original playfields into bizarre new platforms. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Terra Cresta $info=terracre,terracra $icon=terracre $data Mfg. _Nichibutsu - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Easter Egg: It is possible to get an extra 1000 points bonus when shooting skeletons which appear after killing dinosaurs. If you have the proper back-firing weapon, fire at the skeleton and a sprite should appear flying to the top. Shoot it to get the bonus. Remember, you cant get this bonus with forward-firing weapon, you must hit the skeleton with a back-firing weapon. (Frode Gjerde) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tetris (Atari) $info=atetris,atetrisa,atetrisb,atetcktl,atetckt2 $icon=atetris $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1988 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Concept and design by Alexey Pazhitnov and Vadim Gerasimov Programmed by Norm Avellar, Kelly Turner, and Ed Logg Graphics by Kris Moser Audio by Brad Fuller Tetris is one of the most licensed videogames ever. Sega owns the arcade rights overseas, while Nintendo owns the console rights. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #The End $info=theend $icon=theend $data Mfg. _Stern - Year _1980 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Three Wonders (Wonder 3) $info=3wonders,3wonderj $icon=3wonders $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1991 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Udatoshi (game designer) Komachan (program) Kurisan (character design) Kuramoyan (b.g. designer) T'Yomage (sound composer) Three kind of games in one cabinet! Credits appear only at the end of the third game, Don't Pull! (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tiger Heli $info=tigerh,tigerhb1,tigerhb2 $icon=tigerh $data Mfg. _Taito - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Easter Egg: There is a 10,000 points bonus in the start of the game. Count your shots until arriving at the first railroad. If counting 48 shots, a little car should enter the screen on the right side. Destroy it with the 49th shot to get the bonus. There are similar cars throughout the game, but making them appear is a mystery. (Frode Gjerde) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Timber $info=timber $icon=timber $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bios Designed and programmed by Steve Meyer (Tapper, Wacko) Graphics by Scott Morrison The main character in the game (as well as the bartender in Tapper and the guy in Domino Man) is based on a Marvin Glass employee named Mike Ferris who had the same mustache and bald head and wore a red t-shirt all the time. The original idea was to do a kind of two-player, simultaneous, competitive game. A beaver was originally programmed into the game to add some extra competition in cutting down trees but was removed.(William Steward) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Time Pilot $info=timeplt,timepltc,spaceplt $icon=timeplt $data Mfg. _Konami - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Programmed by Toshio Arima Designed by Yoshiki Okamoto Character by Hideki Ooyama Sound by Mashahiro Inoue Yoshiki was told to design a driving game. When he learned of the game's concept, he balked at making it, and started on Time Pilot. As development continued, Okamoto showed his boss design docs for the driving game, all the while working on Time Pilot. Although his boss told him to do the driving game instead, he tried to take the credit for Time Pilot. Okamoto decided not to disgrace his boss and let the episode go!! Thanks to Till Oldemeyer for the link, and Andrea Babich for the extra game credits info. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Toobin $info=toobin $icon=toobin $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1988 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed by Milt Loper Programmed by Dennis Harper Toobin' had a unique cabinet, (as did many Atari games :) in which there was a motorized waterfall attached to the top of the marquee. When this neat gadget failed, it made a horrible grinding noise that could be heard behind closed oak doors!! Very much an Atari Games concept. Makes you wonder what kinds of drugs these guys were on!! $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Top Secret $info=topsecex $icon=topsecex $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1986 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, and Ken Nicholson $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tower of Druaga $info=todruaga,trdruagb $icon=todruaga $data Mfg. _Namco - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed by (from the end credits): Game designer Evezoo End Programmer Satoshi Knight Sound composer Zunko Odawa Hardware Single Shigeru Graphics design You.Shino (Nicola Salmoria of MAMEDEV) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tron $info=tron,tron2 $icon=tron $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed and programmed by John Pasierb, Bill Adams, George Gomez, Atish Ghosh, and Earl Vickers Walt Disney Productions charges Williams Electronics for copyright and patent infringement regarding Williams use of "tron" in Robotron. Williams wins the suit and Disney goes on to hire Bally/Midway to create video games based on their movie. (William Steward) Tron was originally slated to be a color vector game. It was designed using an early script of the movie. Basically, the team took various challenges Flynn had to go through and made them into four separate games-within-a-game. Three of the four scenes were either changed or removed from the final cut of the movie, but it still made one hell of an awesome game. (Brian Deuel) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Tutankham $info=tutankst,tutankhm $icon=tutankst $data Mfg. _Stern _(Konami) - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Programmed by H.Tanigaki Fabio Rossi, in his 'Dizionario Dei Videogame', claims that the game was originally to be called 'Tutankhamon'. However, when programmers decided to change the monitor position from horizontal to vertical, they had to cut the -ON suffix from "Tutankhamon" to make the title fit the screen width. Rossi reports this anecdote to stress the lack of marketing strategies in the early years of VGs, when a game's name could be determined by simple technical considerations. (Andrea Babich) Stern Electronics licensed this game for distribution in the US. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Two Tigers $info=twotiger $icon=twotiger $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Ron Halliburton (Omega Race) and Tim Gilbert of Arcade Engineering Two Tigers originally had a spinner control for the crosshairs, but was changed to joystick when players complained. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #US vs THEM $info=usvsthem $icon=usvsthem $data Mfg. _Mylstar - Year _???? - Format _Raster _Laserdisc _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Warren Davis Filmed footage by Warren Davis and Dennis Nordman Audio by Dave Zabriskie (William Steward) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Vanguard $info=vanguard,vangrdce $icon=vanguard $data Mfg. _SNK - Year _1981 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Centuri licensed this game for distribution in the US. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Vindicators $info=vindictr $icon=vindictr $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1988 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Kelly Turner, Norm Avellar, and Rusty Dawe Art and animation by Kris Moser and Susan G. McBride Audio by Brad Fuller and Hal Canon $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Venture $info=venture,venture2,venture4 $icon=venture $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Howell Ivey and crew Howell Ivey was responsible for most of Ramtek and Exidy's early games, such as Death Race, Robot Bowl, Circus, and Clean Sweep. He later designed the hardware for Exidy's line of excellent shooters. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Vulgus $info=vulgus,vulgusj $icon=vulgus $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1984 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio Designed by (from the high score table of the Japanese version): T. Toyohara M. Kimura Y. Morita A. Fukada S. Okada This was the first game produced by Capcom. It features, as enemies, the four pointed stars which would be used as bonuses in a lot of the following games. The US version's high score table allowed three initials to be entered. The Japanese version allowed ten letters to be entered. (Nicola Salmoria) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Wacko $info=wacko $icon=wacko $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Steve Meyer Graphics by Scott Morrison The game originally had a wizard shooting at cute animals but Bally/Midway execs thought it was too cute and needed an edge. Monsters were designed by Scott and put in instead, plus Bally/Midway also called him at the last minute to replace the wizard with the little green alien from Kozmik Krooz'r. The slanted cabinet was an idea by Marvin Glass which required the trak-balls to be installed upside down to work properly. (Wiliam Steward) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #War of the Worlds $info=wotw $icon=wotw $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1982 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Tim Skelly and Rob Patton War of the Worlds was one of the last vector games Cinema- tronics created. The game was never released due to it test- ing badly at the 1982 AMOA show. The game could have been a winner, had it gotten the tuning it needed, but the programmers just didn't have the hardware possible to do it justice. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Warlords $info=warlord $icon=warlord $data Mfg. _Atari - Year _1980 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Warrior $info=warrior $icon=warrior $data Mfg. _Cinematronics - Year _1980 - Format _Vector _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Tim Skelly Quite possibly the first fighting game ever. The game had an overlay that had the stairs and the pits that were obstacles in the game. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Warriors of Fate $info=wof,wofj $icon=wof $data Mfg. _Capcom - Year _1992 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Warriors of Fate team: Domesan, Xor, Tsu-Zy, 34-Sakontz (program) Fukumoyan, Kyo-Chan, Tenman, Tama Chan, Tanuki, Ballboy, Mizumo, Yuusuke, Nonsuchi, Youjiro, Saotome, Kurata-N, Ume (character) Akiman (onnanoko design) T-Yomage, Bull, Oyabun, Inu (sound) (Andrea Doimo, Universal Videogame List) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Whodunit $info=whodunit $icon=whodunit $data Mfg. _Exidy - Year _1988 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, and Ken Nicholson $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Xenophobe $info=xenophob $icon=xenophob $data Mfg. _Bally _Midway - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed and programmed by Howard Shere Xenophobe was a highly original game with a highly original concept. It was the first split-screen game. It was also a victim of a production scheduling snafu. Due to it's produc- tion being pushed ahead, a lot of the game's tuning was axed. There are many objects in the game that the player can pick up, but have no use. (Neil Bradley of MAMEDEV/ RCDEV) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Xevious $info=xevious,xeviousa,sxeviuos,xevios $icon=xevious $data Mfg. _Namco _(Atari License) - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Vertical $bio At the beginning of the game go to the bottom right of the screen and keep the BOMB button pressed. In the original the message is: Namco original program by Evezoo but in the bootleg, it is: Dead copy making copy under Namco program And in Super Xevious it is: Special thanks for you by game designer Evezoo (Nicola Salmoria of MAMEDEV) Xevious was among the first games to use pre-rendered graphics. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Xybots $info=xybots $icon=xybots $data Mfg. _Atari _Games - Year _1987 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by Ed Logg Programmed by Ed Logg and Bob Flanagan I interviewed Ed and asked him about Xybots: Xybots was another game that seemed inspired by computer games. Any sticky technical problems designing the "3d" interface? Actually there were several sticky issues. We had no 3D hardware. We had no bit map hardware (ala Robotron) either This game was done on a hardware that had 8x8 stamps for the background. The monsters and shots were done with motion objects which had been around since 1977. So the trick was to build a maze just using these 8x8 stamps. (Ed Logg of Atari Games, Brian Deuel) $end #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Yie Ar Kung Fu $info=yiear,yiear2 $icon=yiear $data Mfg. _Konami - Year _1985 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio An excellent fighting game that, with Karate Champ, defined the genre. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Zero Zone $info=zerozone $icon=zerozone $data Mfg. _Comad - Year _199? - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio A risque version of Columns. #The newest game emulated by #Retrocade. $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Zookeeper $info=zookeep,zookeep1,zookeep2 $icon=zookeep $data Mfg. _Taito _America - Year _1982 - Format _Raster _Horizontal $bio Designed by John Morgan and Keith Egging Programmed by John Morgan Music by Tom Fosha Originally called King Crab, Zookeeper was one of the few American- designed games that Taito released (with Space Dungeon and Qix being two others. Early machines had a bug in which the player could turn the machine off and on and get one or two free credits. ("KGB", Brian Deuel) $end #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #THE END!