Re-release

Variety (c) 1978 U.S. Billiards.

U.S. Billiards license of Elcon's "Blockbuster [Cocktail table model]".

An up-to-4 players, multiple video games, cocktail table.

BREAK IN (1 player)
TENNIS (2 or 4 players)
SOCCER (2 players)
WIPE CLEAN (1 player)
GRAVITY BALL (2 or 4 players)

- TECHNICAL -

Dimensions :
Inches : 42 x 30 x 30
Centimeters : 107 x 76 x 76

Weight : 125 lbs / 275 Kgs.

- TRIVIA -

This was the first time a joystick was used to control the game tennis racket so it could go, not only up and down, but also forward and back (left and right) on the tv monitor screen. This was designed by John Wilbur, who also licensed it to Meadows Game who made 'Flim Flam'.

- STAFF -

Designed by: John Wilbur

- SOURCES -

Machine's picture.

Export

Olympic TV Football (c) 1973 Chicago Dynamic Industries, Inc.

Export version of "Olympic TV Hockey"

Sweet Hearts II (c) 2004 Aristocrat Leisure Industries Pty, Ltd.

- TECHNICAL -

Aristocrat MKVI hardware

SH-4 based with PowerVR graphics.
640x480 screen resolution, 24-bit colours.

Button layout, VIC 14 button cabinet:
Top row (90/200 credit versions):
Collect
Bet 1 Credit / Heart
Bet 2 Credits / Diamond
Bet 3 Credits
Bet 5 Credits / Club
Bet 10 Credits / Spade

180 credit (20x9) version has bet buttons marked 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20.
500 credit (25x20) version has bet buttons marked 1, 2, 5, 10 and 25.

Bottom row:
Information
Play 1 Line / Red
Play 3 Lines
Play 5 Lines
Play 7 Lines
Play 9 Lines / Black
Gamble
Spin

The 20 line version has line buttons marked 1, 5, 10, 15 and 20.

The US version has 25 lines.

- TRIVIA -

The MKVI versions introduced the half gamble option, and also 20 lines. A 9 line version is still available though. The 'Flame', 'Drink', 'Roses', 'Cupid' and 'Crown' graphics were updated to the same graphics originally found on "Diamonds & Hearts". The 'Heart' graphic was updated to match the symbol on "Big Hearted", it now beats 4 times then stops.

Go for Green (c) 2001 Aristocrat.

- TECHNICAL -

Aristocrat MK6 hardware.

- SERIES -

1. Double Dolphins (2000)
2. Go for Green (2001)

- SOURCES -

Slot's picture.
Game's ROMs.

Double Dolphins (c) 2000 Aristocrat.

- TECHNICAL -

Aristocrat MK6 hardware.

- TRIVIA -

The theme is recycled from the earlier game "Dolphin Treasure", but with more realistic graphics.

- SERIES -

1. Double Dolphins (2000)
2. Go for Green (2001)

- SOURCES -

Slot's picture.
Game's ROMs.

Export

Ric-O-Chet (c) 1975 Allied Leisure.

A two- to four-player ball and paddle game.

Export version of "Tennis Tourney"

- SOURCES -

Machine's picture.

Sweet Licks (c) 1981 Namco.

- DESCRIPTION -

Players use a mallet to hit cake monsters called 'Pyokotan' that pop out of the 8 colored holes in the machine. The objective is to hit as many Pyokotan as possible before time runs out, every 40 hits adds 15 seconds to the timer.

- STAFF -

Designer: Yukio Ishikawa

- TRIVIA -

Released in April 1981 in Japan.

Released in April 1982 in North America.

The game's background music was reused in "Pac & Pal" for the name entry theme.

Designed by TOGO, manufactured by Namco.

- SOURCES -

Machine's picture.

Sonic Blast Man - Janken Battle (c) 1998 Taito.

- TRIVIA -

Released in June 1998 in Japan.

- SOURCES -

Machine's picture.

- TRIVIA -

Released in February 1981, Gorf was the first game ever to show multiple scenes.

Gorf has achieved the status of 'true status' and became legendary for its groundbreaking, yet almost unintelligible speech.

This game featured some early speech synthesis that was done in a similar manner to that in "Wizard of Wor" (Gorf and Wizard of Wor ran on nearly identical hardware). Here is a list of the humorous phrases Gorf says throughout the game; [rank] denotes where Gorf speaks the player's current rank :

Attract mode:
1) Insert Coin!
2) I am the Gorfian Empire.
3) Long Live Gorf!
NOTE: Move the controller any time during the attract mode to trigger the speech.

Ready to play mode:
1) Long Live Gorf!
2) Push a player button.

Mission start-up:
1) Prepare yourself for annihilation, [rank]!
2) You will meet a Gorfian doom, [rank]!
3) Survival is impossible, [rank]!
4) You cannot escape the Gorfian robots!
5) I am the Gorfian Empire!
6) I am a Gorfian consciousness.
7) Gorfian robots...Attack! Attack!
8) Robot warriors, seek and destroy the [rank]!
9) My Gorfian robots are unbeatable!
10) Gorfians take no prisoners!

Player loses a ship:
1) Got you, [rank]!
2) Bad move, [rank]!
3) Some galactic defender you are, [rank]!
4) Another enemy ship destroyed!
5) Your end draws near, [rank]!
6) Ha ha ha ha!

Player loses last ship:
1) Too bad, [rank]!
2) Bite the dust, [rank]!

At game over:
1) Gorfians conquer another galaxy.
2) You cannot escape the Gorfian Robots.
3) All hail the supreme Gorfian Empire!
4) Try again; I devour coins!

Player destroys Flag Ship (and advances in rank; [new rank] denotes where Gorf speaks the player's new rank) :
1) Nice shot! You have been promoted to [new rank]!
2) For hitting my Flag Ship, you have been promoted to [new rank]!
3) In the Gorfian chronicals, you have been promoted to [new rank]!
4) Next time will be harder, but for now you have been promoted to [new rank]!
NOTES : These phrases may not be easy to hear over the loud explosion of the Flag Ship. The Rank lamp on the bezel moves over to the next rank as soon as Gorf begins speaking. If the player destroys the Flag Ship while already at the highest rank (which is Space Avenger), the words "you have been promoted to" will be omitted from each of these phrases.

OTHER NOTES:

Have you ever noticed that GORF is FROG spelled backwards? Seriously, GORF is an acronym for 'Galactic Orbital Robot Force'.

The game's creator, Jay Fenton, designed a sequel to Gorf called 'Ms. Gorf', but it was never released. Jay Fenton underwent a sex change and is now known as Jamie Fenton.

A Star Trek tie in was originally planned by Midway, but when the first movie fell flat, the Enterprise sprite was reused as the Gorf Flag Ship.

Todd Rogers holds the official record for this game with 653,990 points.

A Gorf unit appears in the 1982 movie 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' and in the 1983 movie 'Joysticks'.

An upright Gorf unit appears in the 38 Special music video 'Caught Up In You' and the 1987 sitcom "Married... with Children"; Season 4, Episode 19 (Peggy Turns 300).

- TRIVIA -

A World Series - The Season unit appears in two episodes of the 1987 sitcom "Married... With Children": Season 8, Episode 10 ("Dances with Weezie") and Season 10, Episode 25 ("Shoeless Al").

Chicken (c) 1996 Aristocrat.

A 5-Reel video slot machine.

- TECHNICAL -

Aristocrat MK5 hardware.

CPU : ARM250
Video resolution : 640x400

Artwork part numbers:
264633 - Belly panel artwork (1996)
266808 - Casino top paytable (1997)

- SCORING -

All pays are left to right except Dynamite which pays any.
Truck substitutes for all symbols except Chicken.

Truck: 2 = 5, 3 = 100, 4 = 1000, 5 = 2500
Cop: 3 = 50, 4 = 250, 5 = 2500
Lights: 3 = 20, 4 = 50, 5 = 250
King: 3 = 10, 4 = 20, 5 = 200
Queen: 3 = 10, 4 = 20, 5 = 200
Jack: 3 = 10, 4 = 20, 5 = 100
Ten: 3 = 5, 4 = 20, 5 = 100
Nine: 2 = 2, 3 = 5, 4 = 20, 5 = 100
Chicken: 3 = 2, 4 = 20, 5 = 50
Dynamite: 3 = 2, 4 = 12, 5 = 50

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

3 Free Spins Feature:
A bought "Chicken" win on any line played is held and 3 free spins commence. No additional free spins are given. Additional "Chickens" spun up anywhere on this feature winning line are held, and pay anywhere on the line. If 5 "Chickens" are held, the 5 of a kind win is repeated for the remaining free spins.

5 Chickens enters you into the Chicken Run Feature, press RUN to commence. Your overall Chicken win is repeated up to 3 times for each Chicken which successfully crosses the road. All feature prizes are multiplied by the number of credits bet per line.

- SERIES -
1. Chicken (1996)
2. Rushin Rooster (1997)
3. Chicken 2 (200?)

- SOURCES -

Game's ROM.

Namco Museum Remix (c) 2008 Namco Bandai Games, Incorporated.

Compilation of 9 arcade classics from Namco:
- "Cutie Q" (1979)
- "Galaxian" (1979)
- "Dig Dug" (1982)
- "Super Pac-Man" (1982)
- "Xevious" (1982)
- "Mappy" (1983)
- "Pac & Pal" (1983)
- "Gaplus" (1984)
- "Pac-Mania" (1987)

The compilation also introduces 5 new "Remix" updates :
- "Galaga Remix"
- "Gator Panic Remix" (originally a redemption game)
- "Pac-Motos"
- "Pac 'n Roll Remix"
- "Rally-X Remix"

Namco Museum Remix (c) 2007 NAMCO Bandai Games America, Inc.

Compilation of 9 arcade classics from Namco:
- "Cutie Q" (1979)
- "Galaxian" (1979)
- "Dig Dug" (1982)
- "Super Pac-Man" (1982)
- "Xevious" (1982)
- "Mappy" (1983)
- "Pac & Pal" (1983)
- "Gaplus" (1984)
- "Pac-Mania" (1987)

The compilation also introduces 5 new "Remix" updates :
- "Galaga Remix"
- "Gator Panic Remix" (originally a redemption game)
- "Pac-Motos"
- "Pac 'n Roll Remix"
- "Rally-X Remix"

Godzilla Wars Jr. (c) 1993 Namco, Limited.

- TRIVIA -

Released in October 1993 in Japan.

A Godzilla retheme of "Buru-chan no Motto Tabetai Wan!".

- SOURCES -

Machine's picture.

Buru-chan no Motto Tabetai Wan! (c) 1990 Namco.

- DESCRIPTION -

The object of the game is to feed Buru-chan by launching balls into her mouth. Landing a ball successfully in Buru-chan's mouth scores 1 point. The player must score 6 points before the game ends in order to win.

- SOURCES -

Machine's picture.

Astérix and the Great Rescue (c) 1993 Sega Enterprises, Limited.

Descriptions from the back cover:

Getafix the Druid and Dogmatix have been captured by the evil Roman forces. Use your magic potions to help Asterix and Obelix fight their way through 5 levels to Rome itself and free their buddies from Caesar's clutches.

Der Druide Miraculix und Idefix sind von den Römern entführt worden. Benutzen Sie Zaubertränke um Asterix und Obelix zu helfen, sich durch 5 Level bis nach Rom vorzukämpfen, um ihre Freunde aus Cäsars Fängen zu befreien.

Panoramix, le Druide, et Idéfix ont été capturés par les armées romaines. Utilisez vos potions magiques pour aider Astérix et Obélix à se frayer un chemin à travers cinq niveaux qui les mèneront jusqu'à Rome où ils tenteront de libérer leurs amis des griffes de César.

Panoramix el Druida y Idéfix han sido capturados por las malvadas fuerzas romanas. Utiliza tus pociones mágicas para ayudar a Astérix y Obélix luchar a través de 5 niveles para llegar hasta Roma y liberar a sus amiguetes de las garras del César.

Panoramix il druido e Idéfix sono stati catturati dalle malvagie truppe romane. Usa la tua pozione magica per aiutare Asterix e Obelix a vincere la loro lotta a 5 livelli fino a Roma e libera i loro compagni dalle grinfie di Cesare.

Mirakulix och Idefix har blivit kidnappade av romarna. Använd den magiska drycken för att hjälpa Asterix och Obelix att kämpa sig genom fem nivåer till själva Rom och befria sina kamrater från Caesar's styrkor.

Panoramix de Druide en Idéfix zijn gevangen genomen door boze Romeinen. Je zult al jouw krachten moeten gebruiken om Asterix & Obelix te helpen door 5 levels in hartje Rome om zo de 2 vrienden te bevrijden.

- TECHNICAL -

GAME ID: 9032
BARCODE: 4974365636821
SIZE: 512KB (4Mbit)

- STAFF -

Coding: Martin Gibbins
Grafix and design: Richard Morton
Music and SFX: Nathan McCree
Additional code: Sean Dunlevy
Additional grafix: Adrian Mannion
Produced by: Ken Lockley
Game testers: Jason Cumberbatch, Darren Lloyd, Ola Sanusi, Stefano Cresci, Sean James

- SOURCES -

Game's ROM.

Time Crisis (c) 1995 Namco.

Time Crisis is an on-the-rails lightgun game in which the player takes on the role of a lone mercenary who must rescue the President's daughter, Rachel, from the clutches of the evil 'Sherudo' and his terrorist gang. The game takes the player into and around Sherudo's clifftop, castle hideout.

The game utilises a cover system in which players can duck behind cover to avoid enemy fire and reload their weapons. In the arcade version, a foot pedal is used to toggle between ducking and attacking positions; in console conversions, a button command replicates the foot pedal's functions. The player loses a life if hit by a direct bullet or obstacle whilst not taking cover.

As the game's title suggests, time is one of the player's biggest enemies, as each area must be cleared within a strict time limit. A time extension is rewarded when an area is completed with additional time awarded for shooting certain enemies quickly. There are three stages, each consisting of three areas with a boss battle at the end of each stage.

The game offers two different modes of play:

STORY MODE: Players must defeat all of the enemies on each stage to proceed to the next, in their quest to rescue the president's daughter.

TIME ATTACK: Players select one of three stages - each representing a different level of difficulty - and must defeat all enemies within the allocated time. This mode has unlimited lives but the player is constantly fighting against a very tight time limit.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco Super System 22 hardware
Game ID : TS

Main CPU : Motorola 68EC020, (2x) TMS32025, M37710
Sound Chips : C352

Players : 1
Control : lightgun
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Time Crisis was released internationally in December 1995.

Time Crisis introduced a new and innovative feature to the light gun game in the form of a foot pedal, situated at the bottom of the cabinet. The player's on-screen counterpart will automatically hide behind whatever cover is available and the player must step on and hold down the foot pedal to break cover and shoot the enemies. Also, ducking behind cover (releasing the pedal) is the only way for the player to reload. This superb feature brought a new level of interaction to a genre that is, by necessity, very linear.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Free Lives : hit the enemy 10 times in a row. When targets begin to get hit, a 'Life Icon' starts to become visible to the right of the time display. Continue to hit enemies, the Icon becomes clearer and clearer. You will receive one life for every 40 direct hits.

- SERIES -

1. Time Crisis (1995, ARC)
2. Time Crisis II (1998, ARC)
3. Crisis Zone (1999, ARC)
4. Time Crisis - Project Titan (2001, PSX)
5. Time Crisis 3 (2003, ARC)
6. Time Crisis 4 (2006, ARC)
7. Razing Storm (2009, ARC)
8. Time Crisis 5 (2015, ARC)

- STAFF -

Supervisor : Takashi Sano

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sony PlayStation (1997)
Sony PlayStation 2 (2002) "Gunvari Collection + Time Crisis"

* OTHERS:
Mobile Phones (2006) "Time Crisis Mobile"

- SOURCES -

Game's picture.
Game's ROMs.
Game's screenshots.
Official website; http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/am/vg/timecrisis/

Sky Target (c) 1995 Sega.

- TECHNICAL -

[1] Deluxe model
[2] Standard model

Runs on the Sega "Model 2A" hardware.

- TRIVIA -

Sky Target was released in October 1995 in Japan and in February 1996 in North America.

The game was originally called "Seeker Head".

Sky Target serves 300,000 polygons per second.

- SERIES -

1. After Burner (1987, Arcade)
2. After Burner II (1987, Arcade)
3. G-Loc - Air Battle (1990, Arcade)
4. R360 - G-Loc Air Battle (1990, Arcade)
5. Strike Fighter (1991, Arcade)
6. Sky Target (1995, Arcade)
7. Sega Strike Fighter (2000, Arcade)
8. After Burner Climax (2006, Arcade)
9. After Burner - Black Falcon (2007, PSP)

- STAFF -

Music & Sound Effects: Kazuhiko Nagai, Nanae Kenda, David Leytze, Masanori Takeuchi

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sega Saturn (1997)

* COMPUTERS:
MS Windows (1997)

- SOURCES -

Game's pictures.
Game's ROM.
Game's screenshot.

Off Road Challenge (c) 1997 Midway Games, Incorporated.

- TECHNICAL -

Midway V Unit hardware

Main CPU : TMS32031 (@ 50 Mhz)
Sound CPU : ADSP2105 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DMA-driven (@ 10 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : paddle
Buttons : 6

- TRIVIA -

Off Road Challenge was released in September 1997.

- UPDATES -

v1.10
v1.30
v1.40
V1.50
V1.63

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* New Truck : On the truck selection screen press each of the 3 view buttons or the music button and new trucks will appear.

- SERIES -

1. Off Road Challenge (1997)
2. Off Road Thunder (1999)

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Nintendo 64 [US] (june.1998) "Off Road Challenge [Model NUS-NOFE-USA]"
Nintendo 64 [EU] (sept.1998) "Off Road Challenge [Model NUS-NOFP-EUR]"

- SOURCES -

Game's picture.
Game's ROMs.
Game's screenshot.

Time Crisis (c) 1995 Namco.

Time Crisis is an on-the-rails lightgun game in which the player takes on the role of a lone mercenary who must rescue the President's daughter, Rachel, from the clutches of the evil 'Sherudo' and his terrorist gang. The game takes the player into and around Sherudo's clifftop, castle hideout.

The game utilises a cover system in which players can duck behind cover to avoid enemy fire and reload their weapons. In the arcade version, a foot pedal is used to toggle between ducking and attacking positions; in console conversions, a button command replicates the foot pedal's functions. The player loses a life if hit by a direct bullet or obstacle whilst not taking cover.

As the game's title suggests, time is one of the player's biggest enemies, as each area must be cleared within a strict time limit. A time extension is rewarded when an area is completed with additional time awarded for shooting certain enemies quickly. There are three stages, each consisting of three areas with a boss battle at the end of each stage.

The game offers two different modes of play:

STORY MODE: Players must defeat all of the enemies on each stage to proceed to the next, in their quest to rescue the president's daughter.

TIME ATTACK: Players select one of three stages - each representing a different level of difficulty - and must defeat all enemies within the allocated time. This mode has unlimited lives but the player is constantly fighting against a very tight time limit.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco Super System 22 hardware
Game ID : TS

Main CPU : Motorola 68EC020, (2x) TMS32025, M37710
Sound Chips : C352

Players : 1
Control : light gun
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Time Crisis was released in December 1995 in Japan and in January 1996 in North America.

Time Crisis introduced a new and innovative feature to the light gun game in the form of a foot pedal, situated at the bottom of the cabinet. The player's on-screen counterpart will automatically hide behind whatever cover is available and the player must step on and hold down the foot pedal to break cover and shoot the enemies. Also, ducking behind cover (releasing the pedal) is the only way for the player to reload. This superb feature brought a new level of interaction to a genre that is, by necessity, very linear.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Free Lives : hit the enemy 10 times in a row. When targets begin to get hit, a 'Life Icon' starts to become visible to the right of the time display. Continue to hit enemies, the Icon becomes clearer and clearer. You will receive one life for every 40 direct hits.

- SERIES -

1. Time Crisis (1995, ARC)
2. Time Crisis II (1998, ARC)
3. Crisis Zone (1999, ARC)
4. Time Crisis - Project Titan (2001, PSX)
5. Time Crisis 3 (2003, ARC)
6. Time Crisis 4 (2006, ARC)
7. Razing Storm (2009, ARC)
8. Time Crisis 5 (2015, ARC)

- STAFF -

Supervisor : Takashi Sano

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sony PlayStation (1997)
Sony PlayStation 2 (2002) "Gunvari Collection + Time Crisis"

* OTHERS:
Mobile Phones (2006) "Time Crisis Mobile"

- SOURCES -

Game's picture.
Game's ROMs.
Game's screenshots.
Official website; http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/am/vg/timecrisis/

Title Fight (c) 1993 Sega Enterprises, Limited.

- TECHNICAL -

Sega System Multi 32 hardware

Main CPU : V70 (@ 20 Mhz), Zilog Z80 (@ 8.053975 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3438 (@ 8.053975 Mhz), MultiPCM (@ 8.053975 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : Double 8-way joysticks

- TRIVIA -

Even if the copyright year is 1992, Title Fight was released in March 1993 in Japan and in April 1993 in North America.

Lucky Marciano is a parody of the late boxing champion Rocky Marciano.

- UPDATES -

The US version is slightly different, it has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" and the "Recycle It, Don't Trash It!" screens.

- SERIES -

1. Heavyweight Champ [Model 317-0046] (1987)
2. Title Fight (1992)

- STAFF -

Sound: Masanori Takeuchi (M. Takeuchi)

- SOURCES -

Game's manual.
Game's picture.
Game's ROMs.
Game's screenshots.

Big Buck Hunter Pro (c) 2006 Raw Thrills.

Big Buck Hunter Pro is a new species of hunting game that delivers a hot new quarry of no-limit fun to players everywhere.

Big Buck Hunter Pro features an all-new two-player element known in the game as 'Shootout'. Shootout lets two players compete in head to head, real time competition. Test results indicate the feature is a hit with new hunters as well as seasoned marksmen. But that's not where it ends...

Big Buck Hunter Pro also boasts 5 all-new, high-definition 3-D modeled animals to hunt. These animals look and move more realistically than ever before. Hunt Whitetail Deer, Elk, Prong Horn Antelope and now Moose and Big Horn Sheep. Hunting treks are now organized by species and not by region.

- TECHNICAL -

Height = 76-3/16 inches (1.94 meters)
Depth = 29 inches (0.74 meters)
Width = 29-3/4 inches (0.76 meters)
Weight = 535 lbs. (242.67 kg)

PC System: Microtel
Motherboard: N68S+

- TRIVIA -

Big Buck Hunter Pro was released on January 23, 2006.

- STAFF -

Developed by Play Mechanix.

- SOURCES -

Game's manual.
Game's picture.
Game's screenshots.
See goodies section.

California Speed (c) 1998 Atari Games Corp.

California Speed is a racing game set in numerous locations across the state of California, in which players compete against different racers as they fight to finish ahead of the pack. Each track features timed checkpoints that must be reached within a set time limit, failure to do so results in disqualification from the race.

Players can choose automatic or manual gears and can race in any one of twelve different cars. The game includes three closed-circuit tracks modelled closely on famous racing tracks, as well as eleven open-road courses that take in such locations as cities, deserts, mountains, shopping malls and even a roller coaster.

Each of the game's fourteen tracks are graded for difficulty; either 'Easy', 'Advanced' or 'Expert'.

- TECHNICAL -

Atari Seattle hardware

Main CPU : R5000 (@ 150 Mhz)
Sound CPU : ADSP2115 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) DMA-driven (@ 16 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : steering wheel with force feedback, four position shift lever, two pedals

- TRIVIA -

California Speed was released in March 1998 in USA.

There are 2 types of California Speed, one of which does not utilize the 4 position shift lever. This was the factory kit that converted "Hyperdrive" to California Speed.

On the Laguna Seca raceway, adverts for some other Atari games can be seen in the background : "Mace - The Dark Age", "Maximum Force", "Primal Rage" and "Area 51".

- UPDATES -

Release 1 :
* version 1.0r7a (3/4/98)

Release 2 :
* version 2.1a (4/17/98)

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Bonus Cars : Set your transmission number to 1, then press RADIO in the car selection screen to change one car from each row into a different vehicle.

* Fruit Attack : If you get ahead of someone tap your gas pedal and the START button simultaneously to throw fruit at the driver behind you. This is pointless but fun.

* Mirrored tracks : hold down all 3 view buttons during track select for mirrored tracks.

* Backrow vehicles : press Tailgate Cam button during car select to choose backrow vehicles.

* During attract mode, press View 1+View 3+Radio to see the version/revision of your machine.

* Here are the cars list with all information you need :

Cresta Convertible
Top Speed : 203 MPH/325 HPH
Traction : Medium
Acceleration : 4.65 Secs
Weight : 2940 Lbs.
Horsepower : 492@9200 RPM

C.H.P.
Top Speed : 206 MPH/330 HPH
Traction : Medium
Acceleration : 4.71 Secs
Weight : 3220 Lbs.
Horsepower : 545@6700 RPM

Dakar
Top Speed : 200 MPH/320 HPH
Traction : High
Acceleration : 5.01 Secs
Weight : 5140 Lbs.
Horsepower : 577@5200 RPM

Predator
Top Speed : 206 MPH/330 HPH
Traction : Medium
Acceleration : 4.73 Secs
Weight : 3140 Lbs.
Horsepower : 545@6700 RPM

Fairchild
Top Speed : 206 MPH/330 HPH
Traction : Medium
Acceleration : 4.71 Secs
Weight : 3220 Lbs.
Horsepower : 545@6700 RPM

Street Fighter
Top Speed : 202 MPH/323 HPH
Traction : Medium/High
Acceleration : 4.87 Secs
Weight : 3140 Lbs.
Horsepower : 504@6700 RPM

Wide Hog
Top Speed : 201 MPH/322 HPH
Traction : High
Acceleration : 5.01 Secs
Weight : 7213 Lbs.
Horsepower : 712@1700 RPM

M2
Top Speed : 206 MPH/330 HPH
Traction : Medium
Acceleration : 4.71 Secs
Weight : 3220 Lbs.
Horsepower : 545@6700 RPM

Road Burner
Top Speed : 205 MPH/328 HPH
Traction : Medium/High
Acceleration : 4.85 Secs
Weight : 4819 Lbs.
Horsepower : 560@8200 RPM

SUV
Top Speed : 205 MPH/328 HPH
Traction : High
Acceleration : 4.65 Secs
Weight : 4840 Lbs.
Horsepower : 540@6700 RPM

Sledster
Top Speed : 206 MPH/330 HPH
Traction : Medium
Acceleration : 4.71 Secs
Weight : 3220 Lbs.
Horsepower : 545@6700 RPM

F1
Top Speed : 207 MPH/331 HPH
Traction : Medium/Low
Acceleration : 4.63 Secs
Weight : 2240 Lbs.
Horsepower : 420@8400 RPM

Kart
Top Speed : 202 MPH/323 HPH
Traction : High
Acceleration : 4.97 Secs
Weight : 1140 Lbs.
Horsepower : 345@11000 RPM

Velocity 6000
Top Speed : 206 MPH/330 HPH
Traction : Medium
Acceleration : 4.76 Secs
Weight : 3140 Lbs.
Horsepower : 545@6700 RPM

Rodster
Top Speed : 205 MPH/328 HPH
Traction : Medium/High
Acceleration : 4.85 Secs
Weight : 4819 Lbs.
Horsepower : 560@8200 RPM

- STAFF -

Producer : Steve Ritchie
Associate Producer & Art Direction : Philip Swett
Lead Programmer: Carl Ferreira
Game Programmers: Dave Akers, Frank Kuan
Lead 3D and Concept Artist: Kevin Page
3D and Concept Artist: Manuel Laguatan
3D Vehicles and Movie Art: Barry Focha
3D Animation and Texture Artist: Gene Higashi
Music, Sounds, and Speech : Kevin Quinn, Dave Zabriske, Chris Granner, John Paul, Joe Lyford, Gunnar Madsen, Rich Carle, Todd Modjesky

Executive Producer: Mark Stephen Pierce

Hardware Technician: Paul Shepard
Hardware Engineering: Pete Mokris, Cary Mednick, Steve Correll, Andy Eloff
Technical Assistance: Pete Takaichi, Rick Meyette
Video Movies and Models: Greg Allen, Brent Englund

Marketing Assistance: Ray Bersabe, Mary Fujihara, Roger Sharpe, Derryl DePriest, Jackie Sherman, Ann Denton, Alexandra Donnelly, Randall Ng
Sales: Mike Taylor, Elaine Shirley, Tom Keil, Masato Ohata, Hiroko Koike
Customer Service: Al Vernon, Holly Lamontagne

Cabinet Art: Nik Ehrilch, Dan Bigelow
Systems Support: Dave Sheppard, Forrest Miller, Randy Davis, Felix Robinos, Jeff Bell, Glenn McNamara, Tox Gunn, Mike Albaugh
Logistical Sanity: Karen Jefferson, Evelyn Perez, George Millington, Rick McDowell, Sally Garza, John McKillip

Good Advice: Mark Pierce, Neil Nicastro, Dan Van Elderen, Ken Fedesna, Eugene Jarvis, Paul Dussault, Eric Prybl, Larry DeMar, Victor Sarkan, Todd Erickson, John Ray, Robert Daly, Charlie Grisafi, Don Diekneite, Bill Hindorff, Wallace Poulter, Takeshi Hasegawa, Dennis Harper, Josh Nicholson, Darren Walker, Chris Ritchie

Atari Gametesters Test Manager: Mike Kruse
Product Analysts: David J. Ortiz, Jose Amparan
Testers: Cecil "Bizahr" Wayne Carthen Jr., Pablo Buitrago, Joseph Magome, Rich Reed, Donald Gavino, Charles Ybarra, Jerry Cruz, T. Lewis, Kevin Dines

Sr. Engineering Tech. : Patrick Hubbell

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Nintendo 64 (1999)

- SOURCES -

Game's ROM.
Machine's picture.
The California Speed FAQ by Poln.

Class of '81: Ms. Pac-Man + Galaga (c) 2000 Namco.

Classic Reunion! Class of '81

Two of the Greatest Hits at One Great Price!

Hello, My Name is Ms. Pac-Man.
Voted: Most Popular, Most Likely to Succeed.

Hello, My Name is Galaga.
Voted: Most Valuable PLayer, Class Space Case.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z180 (@ 32 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Namco (@ 96 Khz), DAC

Screen orientation: Vertical
Video resolution: 288x224 pixels.
Refresh rate: 60Hz.
Palette colours: 16

Specifications:
Installed Dimensions
68" H x 33" W x 24" D
Power Consumption: 250 Watts

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick (UP and DOWN not used in Galaga)
Buttons : 1 (FIRE) - used in Galaga only

- TRIVIA -

Released in September 2000.

The full name on the marquee is "Namco 20 Year Reunion : Class of 1981: Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga".

'Speedy' Ms. Pac-Man, and 'Rapid Fire' Galaga are also operator selectable.

Michael Jackson used to own this game (Serial number: 249). It was sold at the official Michael Jackson Auction on Apr. 24th, 2009.

A developer message can be found on the game's ROM at 0xC020:
PACMAN (c) 1980, namco. MS PACMAN (c) 1981, namco. GALAGA (c) 1981, namco. kernel (c) 2000 cosmodog, ltd. http://www.cosmodog.com

- UPDATES -

V1.00
V1.01
V1.02
V1.03
V1.04
V1.08

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Play the original Pac-Man: At the game select screen press Up(x3), Down(x3), Left, Right, Left, Right, Left. If you did it correctly, the sound heard in both Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man when you gain an extra life will play, and Pinky will take Blinky's place on the Press Start screen. Press the Ms. Pac-Man Start button and you will play "Pac-Man". After the game is over, the original Pac-Man's attract mode sequence will run for one cycle.

* To toggle the built-in speedup, insert coins then enter the following sequence: Left, Right, Left, Right, Up(x3), Fire. If you did it correctly, the sound heard in both Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man when you eat a bonus fruit item will play. This will toggle the speed in both Ms Pac-Man & Pac-Man as well as provide a 'Fast Shot' in Galaga.

Play Galaga for free: During the Galaga demonstration, wait until the Galaga Commander uses the tractor beam. Before it sucks up the ship, press fire and kill it. You now have total control and can play the sample level. However, finish quick or an error screen will come up. The game will function normally though.

- STAFF -

Cabinet Graphic Design: Don Marshall

- SOURCES -

Game's Picture.
Game's ROM.
Game's Flyer.

Golden Tee Fore! 2005 (c) 2004 Incredible Technologies.

- TRIVIA -

Released in February 2004.

- SERIES -

1. Golden Tee Golf (1990)
2. Golden Tee Golf II (1991)
3. Golden Tee 3D Golf (1995)
4. Golden Tee 3D Golf - Tournament Version (1995)
5. Golden Tee '97 (1997)
6. Golden Tee '98 (1998)
7. Golden Tee '99 (1999)
8. Golden Tee Royal Edition Tournament (1999)
9. Golden Tee 2K (2000)
10. Golden Tee Classic (2001)
11. Golden Tee Fore! (2000)
12. Golden Tee Supreme Edition Tournament (2002)
13. Golden Tee Fore! 2002 (2001)
14. Golden Tee Fore! 2003 (2002)
15. Golden Tee Fore! 2004 (2003)
16. Golden Tee Fore! 2004 Extra (2003)
17. Golden Tee Live (2004)
18. Golden Tee Fore! 2005 (2004)
19. Golden Tee Fore! Complete (2005)
20. Golden Tee Live 2007 (2007)
21. Golden Tee Live 2008 (2007)
22. Golden Tee 2008 Unplugged (2007)
23. Golden Tee Live 2009 (2008)
24. Golden Tee 2009 Unplugged (2008)
25. Golden Tee Live 2010 (2010)
26. Golden Tee Live 2011 (2010)
27. Golden Tee Live 2012 (2011)
28. Golden Tee Live 2013 (2012)
29. Golden Tee 2018 (2017)

- SOURCES -

Game's ROM.

Gorf (c) 1981 Midway.

- TRIVIA -

Released in February 1981, Gorf was the first game ever to show multiple scenes.

Gorf has achieved the status of 'true status' and became legendary for its groundbreaking, yet almost unintelligible speech.

This game featured some early speech synthesis that was done in a similar manner to that in "Wizard of Wor" (Gorf and Wizard of Wor ran on nearly identical hardware). Here is a list of the humorous phrases Gorf says throughout the game; [rank] denotes where Gorf speaks the player's current rank :

Attract mode :
1) Insert Coin!
2) I am the Gorfian Empire.
3) Long Live Gorf!
NOTE : Move the controller any time during the attract mode to trigger the speech.

Ready to play mode :
1) Long Live Gorf!
2) Push a player button.

Mission start-up :
1) Prepare yourself for annihilation, [rank]!
2) You will meet a Gorfian doom, [rank]!
3) Survival is impossible, [rank]!
4) You cannot escape the Gorfian robots!
5) I am the Gorfian Empire!
6) I am a Gorfian consciousness.
7) Gorfian robots...Attack! Attack!
8) Robot warriors, seek and destroy the [rank]!
9) My Gorfian robots are unbeatable!
10) Gorfians take no prisoners!

Player loses a ship :
1) Got you, [rank]!
2) Bad move, [rank]!
3) Some galactic defender you are, [rank]!
4) Another enemy ship destroyed!
5) Your end draws near, [rank]!
6) Ha ha ha ha!

Player loses last ship :
1) Too bad, [rank]!
2) Bite the dust, [rank]!

At game over :
1) Gorfians conquer another galaxy.
2) You cannot escape the Gorfian Robots.
3) All hail the supreme Gorfian Empire!
4) Try again; I devour coins!

Player destroys Flag Ship (and advances in rank; [new rank] denotes where Gorf speaks the player's new rank) :
1) Nice shot! You have been promoted to [new rank]!
2) For hitting my Flag Ship, you have been promoted to [new rank]!
3) In the Gorfian chronicals, you have been promoted to [new rank]!
4) Next time will be harder, but for now you have been promoted to [new rank]!
NOTES : These phrases may not be easy to hear over the loud explosion of the Flag Ship. The Rank lamp on the bezel moves over to the next rank as soon as Gorf begins speaking. If the player destroys the Flag Ship while already at the highest rank (which is Space Avenger), the words "you have been promoted to" will be omitted from each of these phrases.

OTHER NOTES :

Have you ever noticed that GORF is FROG spelled backwards? Seriously, GORF is an acronym for 'Galactic Orbital Robot Force'.

The game's creator, Jay Fenton, designed a sequel to Gorf called 'Ms. Gorf', but it was never released. Jay Fenton underwent a sex change and is now known as Jamie Fenton.

A Star Trek tie in was originally planned by Midway, but when the first movie fell flat, the Enterprise sprite was reused as the Gorf Flag Ship.

Todd Rogers holds the official record for this game with 653,990 points.

A Gorf unit appears in the 1982 movie 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' and in the 1983 movie 'Joysticks'.

An upright Gorf unit appears in the 38 Special music video 'Caught Up In You'.

Asteroids (c) 1979 Atari, Incorporated.

Asteroids is a legendary, genre defining game - in an era replete with genre-defining classics - in which a single player takes control of a spaceship trapped in the middle of an asteroid belt. A number of large, slow-moving asteroids drift randomly around the play area and must be shot by the player. When shot, the asteroids will break into a number of smaller pieces which must also be shot until eventually, all of the asteroids and fragments will be destroyed and the next wave begins.

Asteroids introduced real-world physics to video games for the first time, with speed and inertia all adding to the player's problems. As well as the inertia of the player's ship - forcing the player to allow for the ship slowing down and speeding up whenever the Thrust button was utilized - shot asteroids would often send fragments flying in seemingly random directions, and at varying and unpredictable speeds.

As well as the ever-present asteroids, flying saucers also make a regular appearance. These move horizontally and diagonally around the screen, firing at the player's ship, and must be quickly destroyed. They are destroyed when hit by the player's shot, when hit by a saucer's shot or when they collide with an asteroid.

- CAST OF CHARACTERS -

Spaceship - This is you, the player. You can rotate 360 degrees, fire bullets, thrust forward in any direction, and hyperspace to safety if you feel you are in danger.

Large Asteroid - These are the large rocks that fill the screen at the beginning of each stage. Hitting one with a bullet will break it apart into two Medium Asteroids.

Medium Asteroid - Slightly smaller than Large Asteroids, but faster moving. Shooting one of these will result in two Small Asteroids.

Small Asteroid - These are the smallest and fastest rocks on the screen. If a bullet hits one of these, it will vaporize.

Large Saucer - Large flying saucers appear on the screen from time to time, randomly firing shots around the screen. They pose a minor threat.

Small Saucer - The smaller flying saucers are deadlier than the large variety. They are much more precise with their shots, and are more likely to kill you. Eliminate them quickly or get out of their range.

- TECHNICAL -

Upright model dimensions:
25.25 in. (64.14 cm) wide
32 in. (81.28 cm) deep
71.87 in. (182.54 cm) high.

Upright cabinet monitor: 19in. B/W

The Asteroids upright cabinet was identical in construction to the "Lunar Lander" cabinet. It was a black upright with sideart that featured a scene of a starship in a blue field of asteroids (with several red explosions thrown in for good measure). The marquee featured almost identical graphics to the side-art (with the addition of the familiar yellow 'Asteroids' logo). The control panel was a busy looking red, white, and blue affair that had no joysticks (only buttons). While the monitor bezel had kind of a nebula scene printed on it (this did not really seem to match the rest of the machine).

Two different sets of coin doors were made on this title, with early cabinets having a unique design that was soon abandoned in favor of the same one that Atari had been using on Lunar Lander.

Game ID : 035127-035145

Main CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 1.512 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Discrete circuitry.

Buttons : 5
= > RIGHT, LEFT, FIRE, THRUST, HYPERSPACE

- TRIVIA -

Asteroids was released in November 1979.

Asteroids was a much celebrated arcade game that captured the imaginations of millions of players, while capturing a good many quarters as well.

Originally called 'Cosmos', Asteroids' original design brief was a simple copy of Cinematronics' "Space Wars"; with asteroids littering the play-field purely for visual effect. 'Cosmos' was also once known as 'Planet Grab', in which the player had to claim a planet by touching it with their spaceship. 'Cosmos' allowed players to blow up the planets and duel with another ship, Space Wars-style. Only in Asteroids, which arrived two years later, did Atari engineer Lyle Rains, introduce the concept of free-floating rocks.

On June 17, 1980, Atari's Asteroids and Lunar Lander were the first two video games to ever be registered in the Copyright Office.

The first 200 Asteroids machines were actually Lunar Lander cabinets; Asteroids was so successful that Atari cut Lunar Lander's production run and released the 200 aforementioned machines, complete with their original Lunar Lander cabinet art.

Asteroids remains Atari's bestselling arcade game of all time, with approximately 56,565 units produced (47,840 upright and 8,725 cocktail) in total.

* Remembrances from the Video Game Masters : Working on Asteroids was so intense that Lyle Rains and Ed Logg often dreamt about their work.

Lyle Rains : 'In the course of my work I have always found that there are times during the development process when the project gets to me in such a way that I'm eating, drinking, sleeping, and breathing the project. When I close my eyes the images of the screen are there and I dream about them at night. There is something just very intense when you live with a project like that day and night, for months at a time. When we were working on Asteroids, I would play Asteroids for a number of hours in the evening, then I'd go home and I'd close my eyes, and as I was drifting off to sleep I'd see the asteroids floating around the screen.'.

Ed Logg : 'I was shooting the asteroids all night long; I'd just play the game over and over and over in my head, just as if you were playing it in real life. To a certain extent, I play a lot of the games in my mind long before I ever write them because you have to get all the interactions down pat before you can start programming. I know what it's going to look like before I even get there.'.

* Popular from the Start : a good barometer of a game's future success was how popular it was within the labs at Atari. The software developers often had to chase people away from their Prototype machines when they arrived at their desks in the morning or returned from lunch.

Lyle Rains : 'The development on the really good games gets bogged down, because people want to play them all the time. I was in the lab quite often playing Asteroids, as were many other people.'.

On the overall popularity of Asteroids, Steve Calfee said : 'A lot of people really liked it. Somehow, there's something about people, they like to clean spaces. With Asteroids it's easy to measure your accomplishment, you're breaking big rocks into little rocks and then the little rocks into nothing. It's sort of a metaphor for life.'.

Rich Adam recalled his own first encounter with Asteroids : 'I'll never forget going into the lab and seeing that game for the first time. It was like an adrenaline rush. I'm out flying this spaceship and it's the miraculous escape. I've got this situation where I've got tons of these boulders flying around the screen, I have almost nowhere to go. I get to blast my way out of it and cheat death one more time; that's a good fantasy, you've got all these things flying around and yet you're able to survive.'

Howard Delman described what it was like creating the sounds for Asteroids : 'In those days there were no all-purpose sound chips like we have now, so I had to create a hardware circuit for each sound. I would string together electrical circuits that would produce an output wave-form that corresponded to the wave-form of the sound. When put through an amplifier and a loud-speaker, it would sound like whatever I was trying to create. The boom-boom-boom background sound was sort of meant to be like a heartbeat, and the idea was that as the game progressed, the sound speeded up, and the player's heart would speed up, too. You know, stress!'.

* The Great 25-Cent Escape : On the intensity of playing Asteroids, Ed Rotberg recalled : 'Asteroids was just so intense in the fact that you had a concept of all around fantasy. You had to keep your eyes constantly in motion around the screen because the danger could be coming from any direction, at anytime, and it was always so imminent. In Asteroids it was just you out there, trying to survive. It's an incredibly intense game. The tuning in terms of how fast the spaceship turns and how fast the bullets move and how far they go and how fast the asteroids can go, just all the tuning that Ed Logg put into that, is real artistry.'.

Asteroids is considered, artistically, to be a video-game masterpiece. Ed Logg opines : 'The simple fact that the spaceship in Asteroids continues to move after you cut thrust, providing a wee glimpse of the Newtonian mechanics of actual space flight, triggered the imaginations of many users'.

Rich Adam said : 'Asteroids fulfilled the fantasy of being out in space, with no gravity, and free floating. The spaceship had a very elegant grace. A lot of motion in the game had grace, even the way the boulders floated around.'.

And the game's epic quality was noted by Ed Rotberg : 'What Asteroids allows players to do is to put themselves in an incredible predicament, and then extricate themselves from it. You feel like a hero coming out of it.'.

There was a modified version of Asteroids that was given the nick-name "Turtleroids"; this was part of a long series of practical jokes against the vice-president of marketing for Atari who was feeling jaded in his feeling towards 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.

In a monumental display of overconfidence on the part of the Atari programmers, Asteroids rolls over at only 99,999 points. Several players during days-long marathon games have scored over 100,000,000...

Asteroids keeps track of up to 255 extra men. If the player has too many, the game may slow down, probably due to the processor having to draw all the extra men on the screen.

John McAllister holds the official record for this game with 41,838,740 points on April 5, 2010.

The default high score screen of "Cyberball 2072" features names of many Atari arcade games, including ASTEROID.

Asteroids inspired a catchy hit song by Buckner and Garcia called 'Hyperspace' released on the 'Pac-Man Fever' album.

An Asteroids unit appears in the 1982 movie 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High', in the 1983 movie 'WarGames', in the 1983 movie 'Terms of Endearment', in the 1983 movie 'Joysticks', in the 1984 movie 'Night of the Comet', in the 1984 movie 'The Iceman', in the 1985 movie 'Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins', in the 1985 movie 'Pee Wee's Big Adventure', and in the 1983 movie 'The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie - Strange Brew'.

An upright Asteroids unit appears in the 38 Special music video 'Caught Up In You'.

Known licensed releases:
Asteroids (Taito Corp.)
Asteroids (Sega)
Meteor (Hoei)
Super Meteor (Hoei)

Known unlicensed releases:
Asterock (Sidam)
Asteroide (Maxenti)
Meteor (Omni)
Meteorites (VGG)
Planet (Alca)
Hyperspace (unknown)

- UPDATES -

Revision 1 has an invulnerability glitch, which allows players to hide the ship in the upper corners of the screen (in the score) and be invulnerable to collisions.

Revision 1 also has a bug which affects thrusting. If the ship reaches full velocity moving down or left, and continues thrusting while rotating to the opposite direction, the ship will not slow down from the full velocity that has been reached in the original direction.

Revision 2 says '1979 Atari' at the bottom of the title screen, instead of the 'Asteroids by Atari' that was displayed in Revision 1. Also, the invulnerability glitch of Revision 1 is corrected.

Revision 4 :
1) allows small saucer to use wrap-around feature,
2) allows small saucer to fire immediately when entering the playing area, and
3) prevents the intermittent loss of 3rd initial on 10th highest score.

- SCORING -

Large Asteroids : 20 points.
Medium Asteroids : 50 points.
Small Asteroids : 100 points.
Large Flying Saucer : 200 points.
Small Flying Saucer : 1,000 points.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

When you start the game, your spaceship will be in the middle of the screen with four large asteroids heading toward your ship. After all the rocks are destroyed, the next round begins. The number of initial large asteroids depends on the round number:
Round 1: 4
Round 2: 6
Round 3: 8
Round 4: 10
Round 5 and up: 11

Your job is to blast those rocks. However, when you blast them, they break up into two medium rocks. Blasting a medium rock gives you two small rocks. Note : There is an exception to this rule. The game program only allows 26 asteroids on the screen at any one time. If the screen already contains 26 asteroids of any size, then when you shoot a large asteroid it breaks up into only one medium asteroid, and when you shoot a medium asteroid it breaks up into only one small asteroid. You can completely destroy a large asteroid with only three shots instead of seven when the screen is filled up like this.

Destroy the fastest-moving asteroids first. The slower asteroids are easier to avoid and you can deal with them later.

In addition, you have to contend with large and small flying saucers. Remember that you get most of your points by shooting these. On the first few screens, you can sit in the middle and blast rocks to your hearts content. There isn't that much danger since the large saucer doesn't track and only fires random shots. Keep in mind of a few things when shooting :
1) You can have four shots on the screen at any one time. This is useful for when you are blasting rocks at close range. You can pretty much drill them to dust.
2) Your shots 'wrap around' the screen. This means any shot that goes past the edge of the screen will reappear on the opposite side traveling the same direction. The saucers also have 'wrap around' shots.

* Try to keep a few defensive shots in reserve. Sometimes, it isn't wise to fire all four shots at once. Without a shot or two in reserve, you are vulnerable if you need to protect yourself from an unexpected asteroid or flying saucer.

* After 10,000 points, the small saucer becomes a permanent part of the game. You can no longer sit in one place since the small saucer is able to track your ship and take you out with the first or second shot.

* Use hyperspace only in very desperate situations. Something like having four asteroids coming at you at once with nowhere to escape would be a good reason. Eight times out of ten, hyperspace will either put your ship in danger (from a saucer, a plummeting asteroid, or saucer fire) or when you appear somewhere else, your ship will blow up.

* Although there is danger from the rocks and saucers, you can also be a danger to yourself. Use the thrust carefully or you will find yourself careening out of control on the screen. Some players get really good, however, moving around and shooting.

* For those desired high scores, you can use the hunting trick. It goes something like this :
1) After 10,000 points, the small saucers appear. They are worth 1,000 points apiece. First, blast every rock until you have one small rock left.
2) Go sit in the upper left or right corner of the game screen.
3) If the small saucer appears from the side you are on, you can blast it before it gets off a shot. If it appears on the opposite side, use the shot 'wrap around' to take care of it. Some people have done this for hours on end and racked up scores in the millions. Of course, it takes a long time at 1,000 points a pop.
4) Also keep in mind that the small saucer can wrap shots so you may have to move out of danger.

- SERIES -

1. Asteroids (1979)
2. Asteroids Deluxe (1981)
3. Space Duel (1982)
4. Blasteroids (1988)
5. Asteroids (1998, PC, PS; 1999, GBC; 2000, Mac)
6. Asteroids Hyper 64 (1999, N64)
7. Asteroids Gunner (2011, App Store)

- STAFF -

Designed by : Lyle Rains
Programmed by : Ed Logg
Sound & Vector generator display system : Howard Delman

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[US] Atari 2600 (1981) "Asteroids [Model CX2649]"
[US] Atari 2600 (1981) "Asteroids [Model 49-75163]"
Atari 2600 [EU] (1988) "Asteroids [Model CX2649P]"
[US] Atari 5200 (1982) "Asteroids [Model CX5201]"
[US] Atari 7800 (1986) "Asteroids [Model CX7802]"
[US] Sony PlayStation (dec.31, 1996) "Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1 [Model SLUS-00339]"
[EU] Sega Saturn (1997) "Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1 [Model T-25413H-50]"
[US] Sega Saturn (june.30, 1997) "Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1 [Model T-9706H]"
[US] Nintendo SNES (aug.1997) "Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1 [Model SNS-AW7E-USA]"
[EU] Sony PlayStation (dec.1997) "Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1 [Model SLES-00466]"
[EU] Nintendo SNES (feb.26, 1998) "Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Atari Collection 1 [Model SNSP-AW7P-EUR]"
[US] Sony PlayStation (2001) "Atari Anniversary Edition Redux [Model SLUS-01427]"
[US] Sega Dreamcast (jul.2, 2001) "Atari Anniversary Edition [Model T-15130N]"
[EU] Sony PlayStation (mar.1, 2002) "Atari Anniversary Edition Redux [Model SLES-03808]"
[US] Microsoft XBOX (nov.16, 2004) "Atari Anthology [Model 26084]"
[US] Sony PS2 (nov.22, 2004) "Atari Anthology [Model SLUS-21076]"
[EU] Microsoft XBOX (nov.26, 2004) "Atari Anthology"
[EU] Sony PS2 (feb.18, 2005) "Atari Anthology [Model SLES-53061]"
[JP] Microsoft XBOX (aug.4, 2005) "Atari Anthology [Model B7X-00001]"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] [US] [EU] (nov.28, 2007)
Microsoft XBOX 360 [US] (jan.3, 2009) "Jordan's Asteroids [XBOX Indie Games]"
[US] Microsoft XBOX One (nov.1,2016) "Atari Flashback Classics Vol.2"
[US] Sony PlayStation 4 (nov.1,2016) "Atari Flashback Classics Vol.2"

* HANDHELDS:
[EU] Nintendo Game Boy (1992) "Asteroids [Model DMG-AN-GPS]"
Nintendo Game Boy [UK] (1992) "Asteroids [Model DMG-AN-UKV]"
[US] Nintendo Game Boy (feb.1992) "Asteroids [Model DMG-AN-USA]"
Atari Lynx [US] (1994) "Super Asteroids & Missile Command [Model PA2093]"
[EU] Nintendo Game Boy (1995) "Arcade Classic No. 1 - Asteroids & Missile Command [Model DMG-AMCP-NOE]"
[US] Nintendo Game Boy (jul.1995) "Arcade Classic No. 1 - Asteroids & Missile Command [Model DMG-AMCE-USA]"
Nintendo Game Boy [UK] (1995) "Arcade Classic No. 1 - Asteroids & Missile Command [Model DMG-AMCP-UKV]"
[US] Nintendo GBA (mar.25, 2002) "Atari Anniversary Advance [Model AGB-AAVE-USA]"
[EU] Nintendo GBA (feb.14, 2003) "Atari Anniversary Advance [Model AGB-AAVP-EUR]"
[UK] Nintendo DS (mar.11, 2005) "Retro Atari Classics [Model NTR-ATAE-UKV]"
[EU] Nintendo DS (mar.11, 2005) "Retro Atari Classics [Model NTR-ATAE-EUR]"
[US] Nintendo DS (mar.16, 2005) "Retro Atari Classics [Model NTR-ATAE-USA]"
[JP] Nintendo DS (june.30, 2005) "Atarimix Happy 10 Games [Model NTR-ATAJ-JPN]"
[US] Nintendo GBA (aug.21, 2005) "3 Games in One! Yars' Revenge - Asteroids - Pong [Model AGB-B64E-USA]"
[EU] Nintendo GBA (sept.23, 2005) "3 Games in One! Yars' Revenge - Asteroids - Pong [Model AGB-B64P]"
[AU] Nintendo DS (nov.2007) "Retro Atari Classics [Model NTR-ATAE-AUS]"
[US] Sony PSP (dec.19, 2007) "Atari Classics Evolved [Model ULUS-10325]"
[AU] Sony PSP (mar.7, 2008) "Atari Classics Evolved"
[US] Nintendo DS (nov.2, 2010) "Atari Greatest Hits Vol.1 [Model NTR-BR6E-USA]"
[EU] Nintendo DS (feb.24, 2011) "Atari Greatest Hits Vol.1 [Model NTR-BR6E-USA]"

* COMPUTERS:
[US] Apple II (1980)
[US] Atari 800 (1981) "Asteroids [Model CXL-4013]"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1981) "Star Blaster"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1981) "(Color) Meteoroids"
BBC B [EU] (1982) "Meteors" - Acornsoft
[EU] Acorn Electron (1983) "Meteors - Acornsoft
Tandy Color Computer [EU] (1983) "Microbes"
[EU] Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1985) "Asteroid Attack" - Your Computer (UK Magazine) Type-in issue Nov '85, page 82
[US] Commodore C64 [EU] (1987) "Arcade Classics"
PC [MS Windows 3.1x, 3.5"] [US] (1993) "Microsoft Arcade"
PC [MS Windows 95, CD-ROM] [US] (1995) "HemiRoids", part of "Windows Arcade Pack"
[EU] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (1999) "Atari Arcade Hits 1"
[US] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (jul.13, 1999) "Atari Arcade Hits 1"
[US] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (jul.9, 2001) "Atari Anniversary Edition"
[EU] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (dec.14, 2001) "Atari Anniversary Edition"
[US] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (2003) "Asteroids & Super Breakout"
[US] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (nov.11, 2003) "Atari - 80 Classic Games in One! [Model 25069J]"
[EU] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (june.10, 2005) "Atari - 80 Classic Games in One! [Replay]"
[US] Steam (mar.24,2016) "Atari Vault [Model 400020]"

* OTHERS:
Mobile phones [US] [Motorola T720] (2002)
Mobile phones [US] (june.13, 2003)
[US] Nokia N-Gage (2005) "Atari Masterpieces Vol. I"
Mobile Phones [US] (jan.1, 2005) "Atari Legends Vol. 1"
[EU] Nokia N-Gage (oct.13, 2005) "Atari Masterpieces Vol. I"
Apple iPhone/iPod [US] (jan.12, 2009) [Model 30288996]
Apple iPhone/iPod [US] (nov.14, 2009) [Model 338486176]
Apple iPhone/iPod [US] (mar.9, 2011) "Asteroids Classic [Model 423360672]"
Apple iPhone/iPod [US] (jul.18, 2011) "Asteroids Classic HD [Model 450542089]"
Apple Store [US] (2012) "Atari Greatest Hits"
Google Play [US] (2012) "Atari Greatest Hits"
Apple iPhone/iPod [US] (feb.11, 2012) "Asteroids - Classic Arcade Game [Model 498899103]"

- SOURCES -

Game's ROM.
Game's picture.
Game's F.A.Q. by Kevin Butler A.K.A. War Doc
Asteroids Help file from Microsoft Arcade
Command.dat by Procyon Lotor

- TRIVIA -

Released in November 1990.

Approximately 10,750 units were produced.

The High Score initials are sometimes replaced with 'RUDY'.

The red button is held by Rudy on the backglass.

On the backglass, the man with the boy on his shoulders is artist John Youssi. The boy is his son, who also modeled for the inspiration of Rudy.

A FunHouse unit appears in the sitcom "Married... With Children"; Season 9, Episode 24 (Radio Free Trumaine).

The House of the Dead 2 (c) 1998 Sega.

The Special Agents who were assigned to the original House of the Dead mission, thought they were successful in wiping out the evil that resided in secret laboratories and underground passages : however, they were wrong, Dead Wrong!

In the 1st installment of House of the Dead, the situation was a grave one. However, with new hidden passages, giving the player the opportunity to alter the course of each game. The House of the Dead 2 is sure to create more excitement along with a deadlier outcome.

Unbeknownst to the Special Agents, Curlens' scientist and experiments escaped through hidden passages in the mansion. The lifeless corpses and mutilated specimens terrorize the countryside while heading for the targeted City.

The House of the Dead 2, debuting on Sega's new, low cost, high performance, Naomi Hardware Platform, guarantees excitement while the player travels through 6 new challenging levels, using a new light-gun system to destroy new zombies, gruesome creatures, ghastly ghouls, and freaks of modern science, that are bigger, stronger, and faster than ever.

- TECHNICAL -

[1] Deluxe Type.
[2] Super Deluxe Type.
[3] Upright Type.

Runs on the Sega "NAOMI" Hardware.

- TRIVIA -

Common Abbreviations : THOFD2

Released in November 1998 in Japan.
Released in December 1998 in North America.

The House of the Dead 2 was the first game released on NAOMI hardware.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Show Score : L is the Left pistol trigger and R is the Right pistol trigger...
Insert coins into the HOTD2 machine. Then, click on L 2 times, R 3 times, L once, R once and press Start before demo begins.

* Increase Life Stock : To increase the number of lives a player will have, rapidly push the start button while inserting coins.
Note : This trick also works during the game!

* Grenade Launcher : On the first level hit all enemies in the HEAD and when you reach the 1st Boss you will pick up a grenade launcher .

* Quick Reload : Any fan of arcade shooters will know that it's time consuming to reload by shooting the gun away from the screen, and annoying losing your target. For a quick and painless reload, simply put your fingers in front of the nozzle and squeeze one off - then you can get back to killing whatever it was you were killing without interruption.

* No Reloading On Final Boss : If you shoot your gun away from the screen 5 times right before fighting the final boss, you won't have to reload.

* Bonus Room : If you manage to get through the entire game without killing any civilians or letting the zombies kill any civilians, you will be rewarded with a bonus room, just before the last boss. The room contains life-ups and bonus points.

* Boss Tactics :
1) Judgement : Aim for the purple bat.
2) Heroplant : Aim for his heart,in the middle.
3) Tower : Aim for the heads that are charging up or turning yellow.
4) Strenghten : Aim for his head.
5) Magician : Aim for his left or right leg. He is faster, quicker and harder than the magician in House of the Dead part 1, so be careful!
6) Emperor : Aim for the pink ball of his body. His life goes down little by little.

* Endings :
1) Get a score of 80,000 or more for the GOOD ending
2) Get a score less than 80,000 with the last digit 0 for the BAD ending (but it is good in a way)
3) Get a score less than 80,000 with the last digit 1-9 not 0 for the NORMAL ending.

- SERIES -

1. The House of the Dead (1996)
2. The House of the Dead 2 (1998)
3. The House of the Dead III (2003)
4. The House of the Dead 4 (2005)
5. Loving Deads - The House of the Dead EX (2008)
6. The House of the Dead - Overkill (2009, Nintendo Wii)

- STAFF -

Producer : Rikiya Nakagawa
Programmers : Koji Ooto, Hitoshi Shimokawa, Kazutomo Sanbongi, Kazutaka Horie, Gen Miyazaki, Akira Ogata, Junji Shibasaki
Designers : Akira Watanabe, Nobutaka Tozawa, Takuya Ohashi, Norihito Omoda, Masaharu Ijichi, Shien Kato, Satoshi Kobayashi, Megumi Barada, Takashi Fukuda, Toshihiro Fujimaki
Sound director : Tetsuya Kawauchi
Sound : Haruyoshi Tomita
Publicity : Mika Araki
Director & Planner : Takashi Oda

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sega Dreamcast (1999)
Microsoft XBOX (2002, "The House of the Dead III") : included in.
Nintendo Wii (2008, as part of "House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return")

* COMPUTERS:
PC [CD-ROM] (2001)

- SOURCES -

Game's manual.
Game's pictures.
Game's ROMs.
Game's screenshots.
See goodies section.

Medal game

Sonic Blast Man - Janken Battle (c) 1998 Namco.

- TRIVIA -

Released in June 1998 in Japan.

- SOURCES -

Machine's picture.

Medal game

Pata Pata Panic (c) 1993 Atlus Co., Ltd.

- SOURCES -

Game's ROMs.

Medal game

Go! Go! Connie chan Jaka Jaka Janken (c) 1996 Eighting.

- SOURCES -

Game's ROM.

Medal game

Captain Flag (c) 1993 Jaleco.

- SOURCES -

Game's picture.
Game's ROMs.

Repulse (c) 1985 Sega.

Repulse is a 1985 arcade game by Sega. It was renamed 99: The Last War when licensed to Kyugo (who developed the hardware) and Proma. There's also a bootleg version of it named Son of Phoenix.

With a spaceship, the player shoots several kind of robotic enemies and spaceships. At the end of every stage (except for the first one), the player meets a huge enemy spaceship as the stage's boss. Player's spaceship is equipped with a limited force shield which allows it to resist any kind of attack, though energy drains both while it is active and whenever the ship gets hit during use. Power-ups come in the form of ally helicopters and certain spaceships, that bring to the player a new shot(much faster than the normal one) and refills the ship's force field meter.

Stages\scenes in this game are:
I. Encounter,
II. Invasion,
III. Crisis,
IV. Counterattack,
V. Advance,
VI. The last war.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : (2x) Zilog Z80 (@ 4.608 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Players : up to 2 (alternating turns)
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
=> [A] Shoot, [B] Shield

- TRIVIA -

Repulse was released in June 1985.

Default high scores (rank, score and name):
1 50000 (Ichiban)
2 50000 (Niban)
3 50000 (Sanban)
4 50000 (Yonban)
5 50000 (Goban)

Licensed products:
'99 The Last War (Proma)
'99 The Last War (Kyugo)

Known Bootlegs/Hacks:
Son of Phoenix (Associated Overseas)

One of roms has different stage 1, played during daytime. Other versions have all the stages played after dark.

Stages in this game are known as "scenes" and are numbered in Roman numerals, although IV and VI are poorly written; they look more or less like N and И respectively.

Son of Phoenix (bootleg) has a different ending: 》You have saved the world. You were simply, "marvelous". The end?《. No staff roll appears after this message.
The beginning is also different (and longer): 》In 1980 the Phoenix empire was defeated and returned to their native Centuri solar system. Now after many years of planning, the son of Phoenix will lead the alien army to destroy earth and avenge the death of his father. You must stand alone to protect everything we believe in, yuppies, hamburgers, and mom. Good luck, we know you will be marvelous.《

High score allows to enter up to 10 characters.

Extra life can be earned every 50000 or 70000 points, depending on the dip switch set by operator.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Power-up: After the middle of each stage there's a helicopter (a shuttle on 1st stage) that drops a power-up item. So, don't destroy it until it releases the power-up. Be careful with the helicopter scrap after destroying it, it can kill you.

* Bonus life: At the 2nd and 4th stage there is a chance to pick up a 1up item: a group of blocks appears floating on the upper part of the screen, you have to shoot the blue one. You have to hit it with one shot, if you don't, the blue block will turn to red.

* Moai Statues: be careful with the Moai Statues at the 6th (last) stage. Always check if its eyes turn red, if it starts flashing it will shoot.

* Energy meter: don't use the energy all the time, it doesn't replenish after a scene. So if you ended a scene without any (or with very low) energy, you have to wait for a helicopter to drop the energy parachute, or (if you have more than 1 life) enforce a life loss.
- STAFF -

Director : Shunkoh Miki
Programmers : Shunkoh Miki & Tatsuya Uemura
Character designers : Atsushi Kawaguchi, Minoru Harada, Hiroyasu Kobayashi
Music & sound effects : Tatsuya Uemura

- SOURCES -

Game's ROM.
Game's screenshots.
Staff roll after game completion.

- SOURCES -

https://undumped.miraheze.org/wiki/List_of_Undumped_Arcade_Games#Amusitronix

- SOURCES -

https://undumped.miraheze.org/wiki/List_of_Undumped_Arcade_Games#Amusitronix

- SOURCES -

https://undumped.miraheze.org/wiki/List_of_Undumped_Arcade_Games#Amusitronix

- SOURCES -

https://undumped.miraheze.org/wiki/List_of_Undumped_Arcade_Games#Amusitronix

- SOURCES -

https://undumped.miraheze.org/wiki/Virtual_Hang_Glider

- SOURCES -

https://undumped.miraheze.org/wiki/CyberCycle