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Planet Probe

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Description

This rare Japanese coin-op can be described as an elaborate evolution of Tehkan's Senjyo. There's fixed horizontal scrolling (from left to right), but your spaceship shoots vertically. You can shoot into the pseudo-3D background, to destroy the outposts located on the landscape, AND right up in the sky, to eliminate the enemy spaceships.

The scrolling never stops, and environments smoothly cycle from deserts to volcanic areas, from alien oceans to futuristic cities.

There's no music in the game (only sfx) but the hi-score table features a catchy tune [note: so catchy I still can remember and play it after almost twenty years!]

What else? Your ship is very slow and there are no power ups, still there are plenty of secret bonus targets, such as super deformed pterodactyls and an invisible knight you can spot only when its silhouette is exposed to moonlight.

Planet Probe is so rare that no picture can be found on the Net and nobody seems to own a PCB of the coin-op; anyway, at the time several videogame magazines featured news about the game and/or published readers' hi-scores.

Planet Probe was produced by Unknown (Temporary) in 1985.

Unknown (Temporary) released 125 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1850. Unknown (Temporary) was based in United States.

Other machines made by Unknown (Temporary) during the time period Planet Probe was produced include: Zip, Darts, Kickle Cubele, Dream Land, Space Birds, Break, delete, Intellivend 2000, delete, and delete

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Specs

Name Planet Probe
Developer Unknown (Temporary) (United States)
Year 1985
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 13008
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Planet Probe KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Planet Probe 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).

Very rare - There is one known instance of this machine owned by an active member Planet Probe collector. It is a set of 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.

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