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Fly-Boy

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[Coin-Op] Arcade Video Game by Kaneko Co., Ltd. [Tokyo, Japan]

 
DESCRIPTION
 
Type of the game: [Coin-Op] Arcade Video Game
Fly-Boy © 1982 Kaneko Co., Ltd.

Take off on a fantastic video trip. A voyage that simulates the thrills and skills of actual Hang Gliding. Players use the joystick to control Freddie, but good timing and strategy is necessary to successfully negotiate invisible air currents, wind direction and up and down drafts. This game has incredible visual impact for this time, Freddie flies the skies over the Alps--over trains, trees, bridges, through winter and summer seasons; over the Pacific--over a yacht, tropical islands, an aircraft carrier; and over Egypt--camels, Pyramids, the Taj Mahal, the Sphinx, through day and night landscapes. It's a complete global challenge with non-stop action over a continuously changing panorama below.
TECHNICAL
 
Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 1.536 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1
TRIVIA
 
Fly-Boy was released in October 1982. Licensed to Atari under the name of "Fast Freddie".
SOURCES
 
Game's rom.

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