SAR - Search and Rescue © 1989 SNK.
When a pioneer spaceship vanishes mysteriously. An investigation reveals that the spaceship crashed near a ravine due to unknown circumstances. Now two SAR (Search and Rescue) operatives are on a mission to find out what happened, and eliminate the alien threat.
Game ID: A8007 'BH'
Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips: YM3812 (@ 4 Mhz), UPD7759 (@ 640 Khz)
Players: 2
Control: 8-way joystick (rotary).
Buttons: 2 per player.
Released in December 1989 in Japan.
This was SNK's last game to use rotary joysticks.
Despite the game having an 1989 copyright, SAR - Search and Rescue was actually released sometime in 1990. A few months after SAR's release, SNK began to focus on the Neo-Geo hardware.