Lunar Battle
![Lunar Battle - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji]()
Description
The player controls a space ship in three different solar systems. Each solar system consists of a home base, a death star, a red alien planet and four regular planets. Each planet has its own unique terrain.
Lunar Battle was produced by Atari in 1982.
Atari released 136 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Atari was based in United States.
Other machines made by Atari during the time period Lunar Battle was produced include: Neutron Star, Tempest Tubes, Tempest, Triangle, Maze Invaders, Akka Arrh, Atari Force Liberator, Fast Freddie, Black Widow, and Gravitar
Specs
| Name | Lunar Battle |
|---|---|
| Developer | Atari (United States) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 8464 |
| Class | Prototype |
| Genre | Space |
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| Conversion Class | Atari Color Vector |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
| Controls |
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| Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
| Cabinet Styles |
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| Control Panel | Lunar Battle Control Panel Image |
| PCB | Lunar Battle PCB Image |
Game Introduction
This is the prototype of Gravitar.
Game Play
The game has the exact same play as Gravitar, but it is much more difficult. The gravitational pull is a lot stronger and the enemy attacks are relentless. The shapes of the bunkers and planets are different, but the terrain is the same.
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Cabinet Information
The game is housed in a Space Duel cabinet (two speakers at waist level and two seakers under the marquee versus Gravitar's one above and one below) and is a typical Atari prototype cabinet that contains no side art. The control panel and marquee are exactly the same as Gravitar with only the name changed on the header.
Miscellaneous
COPY OF: Gravitar
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Lunar Battle Census
There are 14,770 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,482 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,617 machines (6,906 unique titles).
Scarce - There are 4 known instances of this machine owned by Lunar Battle collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. One is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Lunar Battle circuit board for sale.
Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Lunar Battle.
This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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Technical
The game runs on a converted Space Duel PCB.
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