MAME reviews

Tugboat (c) 1982 ETM.

A kids' game where the player controls a tugboat which the player must navigate up the river while avoiding logs and touching lighthouses for points. There is no penalty for hitting the riverbank. The Horn button just sounds. First four levels just get faster, then the river channel narrows, and the boat's speed increases.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : M6502 (@ 2 Mhz)

Sound Chips : AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 256

Players : 1

Super Cross II (c) 1986 GM Shoji.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : (2x) Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (3x) SN76496 (@ 2.5 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 240 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 18

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2

Taxi Driver (c) 1984 Graphic Techno.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : (3x) Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 1.25 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 208 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 16

Players : 2

Control : 4-way joystick

Buttons : 2

Crazy Rally (c) 1985 Tecfri.

A vertically scrolling driving game.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 1.25 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 59.00 Hz

Palette colors : 256

Players : 2

Control : 2-way Joystick

Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Stefano Muffolini holds the official record for this game with 280,250 points on April 20, 1985.

Counter Run (c) 1988 Nihon System.

In this maze game, You are a car in a labyrinth that must eat all the dots while evading the other cars who pursue you.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (4x) SN76496 (@ 3 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 512

Players : 2

Control : dial

Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Licensed to Sega.

Car Jamboree (c) 1983 Omori Electric.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 64

Players : 2

Control : 4-way joystick

Buttons : 1

- PORTS -

* Computers :

MSX

Round Up 5 - Super Delta Force (c) 1989 Tatsumi.

A sprite-scaling racing game based heavily on the Taito classic, "Chase HQ", Round Up 5 sees a single player take on the role of a law enforcement officer who must arrest five criminals.

As well as the Miami Vice-esque gameplay theme, Round Up also borrows the fork-in-the-road level design of the Taito classic; an idea that was itself taken from Sega's 1986 legend, "Out Run".

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : V30 (@ 10 Mhz), 68000 (@ 10 Mhz), Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM2151 (@ 4 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 18.939 Khz)

American Speedway (c) 07/1987 Enerdyne Technologies.

An overhead racing game.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : (2x) Z80 (@ 3 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM2151 (@ 3 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 32

Players : 2

Control : dial

Buttons : 1

Super Cross II (c) 1986 GM Shoji.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : (2x) Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (3x) SN76496 (@ 2.5 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 240 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 18

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2

Counter Run (c) 1988 Nihon System.

In this maze game, You are a car in a labyrinth that must eat all the dots while evading the other cars who pursue you.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (4x) SN76496 (@ 3 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 512

Players : 2

Control : dial

Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Licensed to Sega.