Heavy Unit

Description

Fight off ugly aliens in this horizontal shooter.

Heavy Unit was produced by Taito in 1988.

Taito released 487 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Taito was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Heavy Unit was produced include: Tokusyu Butai UAG, Full Throttle, Contintental Circuit, Exzisus, Wardner No Mori, Bonze Adventure, Chase H.Q., Chuka Taisen, Cloud Master, and Fighting Hawk

Specs

Name	Heavy Unit
Developer	Taito (Japan)
Year	1988
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8097
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - FireBomb
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

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Heavy Unit Game

Game Introduction

This is an horizontal shooter with occasional vertical scrolling. The player controls a ship than can switch between two modes - fighter or robot - by picking "T" bonuses. The fighter mode provides a large shot and up/down bombs, whereas the robot mode has a concentrated front-shot and homing energy balls. "P" bonuses increase firepower. Shield bonuses are also available at some places by shooting several secret points.

Heavy Unit KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Heavy Unit Census

There are 14,748 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,472 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,454 machines (6,894 unique titles).

Common - There are 43 known instances of this machine owned by Heavy Unit collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines. 41 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Heavy Unit machine for sale. There are 3 active VAPS members with a Heavy Unit circuit boards for sale.

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

This game ranks a 10 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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Manuals

Pinout and DIP Switch Settings - Heavy Unit Manual — **Pinout and DIP Switch Settings**
(1 page, 53 kB File)

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