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Rygar

Description

A warrior with a huge mace travels through a strange world killing monsters. Pick up insignias and stars for bonus points. The game has 27 different levels.

Rygar was produced by Tecmo in 1986.

Tecmo released 63 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1985. Tecmo was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Tecmo during the time period Rygar was produced include: Mega Force, Mighty Bomb Jack, Argos No Senshi - Legendary Warrior, Solomon's Key, Tee'd Off, and Gemini Wing

Specs

Name	Rygar
Developer	Tecmo (Japan)
Year	1986
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9386
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Tehkan
Game Specific	Rygar Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Rygar Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - ShootJump
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Side Art	Rygar Side Art Image
PCB	Rygar PCB Image

Video Clips

Rygar shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Game Introduction

You play the part of a barbarian warrior trying to reclaim the land from an evil Dominator and his legions of minions. You have to fight your way through 27 rounds using a unique weapon that has a lethal razor sharp disk that is thrown at enemies!

Game Play

Four weapons are available as droppers - Length, Size, Shoot Upwards and Kill Stomp for when you stand on enemies heads. A Shield is the fifth weapon and is available only on certain screens or via shooting a gravestone that contains a red and white question mark. 1 million point bonus available at the star tree on sheet 13.

Rygar KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.12 (7 votes)

Fun Factor: 4.06

Overall Like	4.83
Fun (Social)	3.17
Fun (Solo)	4.83
Collector Desire	4.50

Technical Rating: 4.71

Gameplay	4.83
Graphics	4.50
Originality	5.00
Sound/Music	4.50

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.

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

With regard to the US ROM Sets, it appears that the 'rygar' set is a bug fix release for 'rygar2' ROMs. The original version was probably renamed to 'rygar2' when the new, fixed 'rygar' set was created.

The differences between these revisions are:

'rygar2' has a bug in the code which lets player two start a game when player one is already playing. You need to set a DIP switch to enable this behaviour it is usually on by default. If you press '2' while player one is playing a one-player game, 'rygar2' will check if you have one or more credits before it registers that you're now in a two-player game, but it won't deduct the credit.
'rygar2' has some code that's not in 'rygar'. It seems to be blanking out seven characters on the screen. Maybe it's removing the word 'player 2' or 'player 1'.
In 'rygar2', if player two starts while player one is already playing, it says 'player 2' instead of 'player 1' at the top right.
The first screen of 'rygar2' says "ALL RIGHT RESERVED" which is missing the 'S' that is present in 'rygar'.

On level 13 there is a hidden star that will award you 1000000 points!

More pictures

Cabinet Information

This game was only sold as a conversion kit.

Conversion

Any cabinet equipped with a Tehkan wiring harness will accept this PCB. The game only requires one joystick and two buttons. However, two joysticks and four buttons will be required if the game is installed in a cocktail cabinet.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Argos No Senshi - Legendary Warrior

The differences between the US and Japanese ROM sets are: the demo sequences differ

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Rygar 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 164,455 machines (6,894 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 96 known instances of this machine owned by Rygar collectors who are active members. Of these, 15 of them are original dedicated machines. 14 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 67 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 Rygar machine for sale. There are 5 active VAPS members with a Rygar circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Rygar. There are 3 active VAPS members looking for Rygar boards sets.

This game ranks a 24 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 12 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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

Flyers

Technical

CPU: Z80 7.6 MHz
SOUND CPU: Z80 4 MHz
SCREEN: 256x224 horz 60Hz
COLORS: 1024 dynamic
SOUND: YM-3812 4 MHz

Manuals

Pinout and DIP Switch Settings - Rygar Manual — **Pinout and DIP Switch Settings**
(7 pages, 1.1 MB File)

Service Instruction Manual - Rygar Manual — **Service Instruction Manual**
(11 pages, 823 kB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright

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