Space Fortress
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Description
Defend a space fortress against alien attackers in this three scenario game. Blast the bad guys and avoid tractors beams. One of the earliest games to feature speech.
Space Fortress was produced by Century Electronics in 1981.
Century Electronics released 19 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Century Electronics was based in United States.
Other machines made by Century Electronics during the time period Space Fortress was produced include: El Grande, Star Fighter, Moon Crest, Cosmos, Dark Warrior, Video 8 Ball (Eight Ball), Dazzler, and Delete
Specs
| Name | Space Fortress |
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| Developer | Century Electronics (United States) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 9657 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Space |
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| Conversion Class | Konami Classic |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
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| Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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Game Introduction
"You are defender of space fortress 13!", the game announces to you, as play commences. The game features three scenarios. The first stage is reminiscent of asteroids -- you can rotate left and right, fire and thrust -- where the objective is to shoot the aliens (sort of flashing balls). Death takes you to the second section, where you must defend the fortress in the center of the screen. Alien ships (the same flashing balls as before) attempt to crash into it. Watch out for aliens with a tractor beam which suck you towards destruction. In section three, you can only move left and right shooting from the bottom of the screen -- reminiscent of space invaders -- while aliens dive towards the ground. Interesting to play just for novelty value.
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Trivia
Not to be confused with the Zaccaria game Space Fortress which is an Italian clone of Star Castle.
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Space Fortress Census
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Flyers
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1981
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1981
Technical
Graphics are very simple and very small. The game does have good speech and features both male and female voices. When you power the game up, the board announces Game system operational, but terrible sound -- just 'pings'. The board set is full of cryptically numbered 40-pin custom ICs.
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