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Turtle Ship Turtle Ship - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Turtle Ship - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Ancient ship comes to life with new weapons to save human race from annihilation. Space shooter that plays both horizontally and vertically.

Turtle Ship was produced by Philko in 1988.

Philko released 7 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1988.

Other machines made by Philko during the time period Turtle Ship was produced include: Dyger, Twin Falcons, Whizz, Xyonix, and Atomic Point

Turtleship
Turtleship

Specs

Name Turtle Ship
Developer Philko
Year 1988
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 10225
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings

Turtle Ship Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Competitive
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Play

The game is a typical space shooter that plays horizontally or vertically depending on the level. Three buttons per player: guns, missiles and special. Special is a super weapon which kills all but the most powerful enemies.

Turtle Ship KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Miscellaneous

Licensed to Sharp Image for US manufacture and distribution.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Turtle Ship Census

There are 14,717 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,455 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,291 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 7 known instances of this machine owned by Turtle Ship collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines. 5 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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