Sky Soldiers

Manufacturer: SNK
Year: 1988
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: JAMMA
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [Shoot|Special Weapon]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Sky Soldiers Description

A vertical-scrolling shoot-em-up where the player controls a plane flying over a landscape with no land-based enemies. Collect power-ups to upgrade your ship's speed, shot power and special weapon power (selected at beginning of the stage). Fight through different time zones and locations, each with a large boss aircraft.

Miscellaneous

Licensed to ROMSTAR for US manufacture and distribution. This game is very similar to Sky Adventure to the point that they are probably related in some way.

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Common - There are 36 known instances of this machine owned by Sky Soldiers collectors who are members. Of these, It is an original dedicated machine., 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 33 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 0 VAPS members with extra Sky Soldiers circuit boards for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

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

This game ranks a 22 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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Technical

The game runs on same hardware as Time Soldiers using a custom ALPHA 8511. The ALPHA IC usually has the name of the chip scratched out on it.

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