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Devastators
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Name: Devastators Manufacturer: Konami Year: 1988 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Devastators DescriptionViewed from behind you are a soldier who must walk forward shooting your way past troops, tanks etc. as the scenery scrolls past like a driving game, until you reach the end-of-level boss. Take him/it out and move on to next stage.Konami, the Devastators maker, released 359 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Other machines made by Konami during the time period Devastators was produced include '88 Games, Akumajou Dracula, Chequered Flag, Contra (PlayChoice), Crazy Cop, Hyper Crash, Vs. Top Gun, Typhoon, Trick Trap, and Track & Field (PlayChoice). Devastators - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.68 (1 vote)
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. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game IntroductionThis game was a little unusual in that rather than moving about in a static level, or one that gradually scrolls sideways, you must walk forwards, into the screen. The scenery is scaled and scrolls past you like in a driving game. You can move around in a set area, but you cannot move back outside it, and moving forward beyond a certain point starts the scrolling. You can pick up guided missiles to add to your grenades, and these lock on to a target indicated by a flashing red cross-hair. You can only fire a short way in from of you and this together with rather sluggish controls and movement made the game difficult to get in to. At the start of the game the players are parachuted out of a plane over a scrolling cloud base. Rather neat looking and sounding. Something about the way the graphics were scaled made it look rather blocky and emphasized the black pixels making it hard to discern some object and the jerky scrolling and sudden jumps in scale made this game less appealing than others of the same genre.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Devastators CensusThere are 7,846 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 6,529 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 103,963 machines (5,043 unique titles).Common - There are 30 known instances of this machine owned by Devastators collectors who are active members. Of these, 4 of them are original dedicated machines, 3 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 23 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with Devastators machines for sale. There are 3 active VAPS members with extra Devastators circuit boards for sale. Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Devastators. This game ranks a 21 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 wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
FixesThe paint used on the silk-screen could and in some cases did corrode the metal in the vias, especially around the main code ROM, causing the game to fail. Wiring a link will fix this. The cause may be the paint, or moisture trapped in the via by the paint.Manuals
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