MAME reviews

Looping (c) 04/1982 Video Games GMBH.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : TMS9995 (@ 12 Mhz), TMS9980A/TMS9981 (@ 2 Mhz), COP420 (@ 1 Mhz)

Sound Chips : AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz), TMS5220 (@ 640 Khz), DAC (@ 640 Khz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 32

Players : 2

Control : 2-way joystick (vertical)

Buttons : 2

=> [A] FIRE, [B] FLIGHT ACCELERATOR

- TRIVIA -

Licensed to Venture Line for US manufacture and distribution.

Looping was developed in Parma, Italy.

Sky Bumper (c) 1982 Venture Line.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : TMS9995 (@ 12 Mhz), TMS9980A/TMS9981 (@ 2 Mhz), COP420 (@ 1 Mhz)

Sound Chips : AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz), TMS5220 (@ 640 Khz), DAC (@ 640 Khz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 32

Players : 2

Control : 2-way joystick (vertical)

Buttons : 2

- SERIES -

1. Looping (1982)

2. Sky Bumper (1982)

Looping (c) 04/1982 Video Games GMBH.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : TMS9995 (@ 12 Mhz), TMS9980A/TMS9981 (@ 2 Mhz), COP420 (@ 1 Mhz)

Sound Chips : AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz), TMS5220 (@ 640 Khz), DAC (@ 640 Khz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 32

Players : 2

Control : 2-way joystick (vertical)

Buttons : 2

=> [A] FIRE, [B] FLIGHT ACCELERATOR

- TRIVIA -

Licensed to Venture Line for US manufacture and distribution.

Looping was developed in Parma, Italy.

Battle Cross (c) 1982 Omori Electric.

An early space-themed shoot'em up where fleets of ships fly in from either of the screen and loop around in formation. The player may move around the screen in any direction.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)

Sound Chips : AY8910 (@ 1.25 Mhz)

RAM : (12x) 4116, (2x) 2114, (6x) 2114

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 56.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 192

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 1

- SCORING -

Ione : 100 points.

Rearu : 120 points.

Zodiack (c) 1983 Orca.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz), Z80 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Sound Chips : AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 49

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Licensed to Esco Trading for Japanese manufacture and distribution.

Strikeforce (c) 02/1991 Midway.

Saurian lizard men have overrun all twenty-two planets that form the New Earth Solar System colonies, capturing and mutating the resident human colonies into reptiles to use as slave labour at their stronghold base, the Saurian Mega-Star Apocalypse

Dog-Fight - Batten O'Hara no Sucharaka Kuuchuu-sen (c) 1984 Technos.

A very funny shoot'em up game.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : TA-0011

Main CPU : (2x) M6502 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

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

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 80

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

The subtitle of this game translates from Japanese as 'O'Hara's Cross in Irresponsible Distress'.

This game is known outside Japan as "Acrobatic Dog-Fight".

Acrobatic Dog-Fight (c) 1984 Technos.

A very funny shoot'em up game.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : TA-0011

Main CPU : (2x) M6502 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

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

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 80

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

This game is known in Japan as "Dog-Fight - Batten O'Hara no Sucharaka Kuuchuu-sen".

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

Vanguard (c) 07/1981 SNK.

Vanguard (c) 07/1981 SNK.