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Space Attack [Upright model]

Export Arcade Video game published 45 years ago by Video Games, Ltd.

Listed in MAME

Space Attack [Upright model] screenshot

Space Attack © 1979 Video Games, Limited.

A clone of Taito's 'Space Invaders'.

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TECHNICAL/MACHINE PICT.
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Upright model

Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 1.9968 Mhz)
Sound Chips : SN76477 (@ 1.9968 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2

Players : 2
Control : 2-way joystick
Buttons : 1 (FIRE)

TRIVIA

Freddy Bailey was chairman of the Game World Group in Nottingham. He was originally a distributor for Video Games GMBH in Lich Germany. In 1979, he received an order for 1,000 upright Space Attack, because of the boom, Video Games GMBH could not fulfil the order from the German factory, so the directors of Video Games GMBH and itself funded a new company called Video Games (UK) Ltd, after a short while he purchased all ot the shares from the German partners and changed the name to Game World, Ltd.

Also released as cocktail table and wall model.

SOURCES

Game's ROM.
Machine's picture.