Armored Warriors, the Video Game by Capcom Co., Ltd. [Japan]

Type of the machine : Video Game
Armored Warriors © 1994 Capcom.

An up-to-3 players side-scrolling beat'em up game where 4 selectable mechs and their respective pilots try to save Earth from battle with a sister planet's renegade army. Parts of destroyed mechs can be outfitted onto your mech to create interesting and deadly combinations.

Capcom Play System II hardware (CPS II)
Game ID : CP-S II No. 07

Main CPU : 68000 (@ 11.8 Mhz), Z80 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Q-Sound (@ 4 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 384 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 59.629403 Hz
Palette colors : 4096

Players : 3
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3
=> [1] Arm attack, [2] Jump, [3] Weapon attack

Released in September 1994.

This game is known in Japan as "Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment".

Sony Music Works released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Powered Gear Arcade Game Track - SRCL-3089) on 01/12/1994.

The US version is slightly different, it has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.

* Selecting Joint Parts : while the demo appears for joint machine, the player who gets the radio machine must enter the following codes.
Beta-Cannon - Hold Up.
Gamma-Battler - Hold Left or Right.
Alpha-Fortress - Hold Down.

* Selecting Parts : at the stage title screen, hold B+C (over 1 sec.) and then enter the following key.
Bomber - Leftup
Death Drill - Up
Missile - Rightup
Laser blade - Left
Force claw - Right
Flame - Leftdown
Chain spark - Down
Laser - Rightdown

Note : you can select both the arm and the sub weapon at the same time, but, if you enter codes for arm or sub weapon twice only the later code will work.

1. Armored Warriors (1994)
2. Cyberbots - Fullmetal Madness (1995)

Planners : Kiyo, T.H.T.Fuji, Tuchihashi Bakabon
Programmers : Y. Tunazaki Forever, Hero Hero, H. HASssssY, Hamachan, Dress
Mechanical design and object : Yochabare, E. Kuratani, H. Uemura, Naoki Fujisawa, Y. Maruno, H. Yoshino, You-Tenkozow (You.Ten Kozow), Igami, Nekokan, U.F.O, Naoki Fukuda, Bakky
Art designers : Matsumoto, Y. Maruyama, M. Oshino, Takuji Mishima, Saru, Kohei Akiyama
Sound composer : Takayuki Iwai (Anarchy Takapon)
Sound designer : Tomuyuki Kawakami (T.K NY)
Special advisers : Noritaka Funamizu (Poo), Shochan, Kenkn, Meshi, Furoboh
Character designer : T.O.M
AD designers : Sensei, Sakomizu
Director : Kihaji Okamoto

Game's rom.