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Quartet 2 Quartet 2 - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Quartet 2 - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Human characters collect guns and power-ups to destroy a variety of robots in a space base. Defeat the boss character and collect the key to unlock the base's door and move on to the next level. Up to two people may join in on the fun.

Quartet 2 was produced by Sega in 1986.

Sega released 593 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1960. Sega was based in United States.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Quartet 2 was produced include: Champion Pro Wrestling, Teddy Boy Blues, Space Harrier, Sega Ninja, Repulse, Action Fighter, Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars, Alien Syndrome, Body Slam, and Dump Matsumoto

Specs

Name Quartet 2
Developer Sega (United States)
Year 1986
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9193
Class Wide Release
Genre Platform
Monitor
Conversion Class Sega System 16
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Joint
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 - Fire|Jump
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

This game was relased shortly after the dedicated Quartet. Quartet 2 is not a sequel but rather a conversion kit that could be placed in two-player cabinets. The only real difference between the two game is Quartet 2 allows up to two players to choose from the four available characters.

The game has side-scrolling action and a Gauntlet-like join-in type play. The four characters each have a different name and wear a different color. They are Joe (yellow), Mary (red), Lee (blue) and Edgar (green).

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Trivia

Sun Corporation only made a handful of games besides this title. Their parent company, Sun Electronics (who later changed their name to Sun Corporation of Japan), made games like Arabian and Kangaroo. In 1989, Sun Corporation of America changed its name to SunSoft and then left the arcade game market to concentrate on creating software titles for home console systems like the Nintendo 64.

Cabinet Information

This game was only released as a conversion kit for two-player cabinets. Sometime during production, Sun Corporation of America changed the colors of the kit, so there are two different color marquees for Quartet 2 (one blue and one turquoise).

Conversion

This game can be back converted to Quartet by swapping ROM boards. This conversion will require a Quartet wiring harness, however, since the ROM boards determine the game board's control pinouts. Additionally, both Quartet and Quartet 2 can be converted to or from Body Slam, by replacing the ROM board, and several ROMs on the main board.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Quartet 2 Census

There are 15,179 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,629 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,375 machines (6,974 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 14 known instances of this machine owned by Quartet 2 collectors who are active members. Of these, 14 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

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

This game ranks a 4 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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

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Technical

The Quartet and Quartet 2 control pinouts differ due to the varience in the number of simultaneous players between games. The wiring for Quartet is set up so that each player is required to use a specific set of joysticks and buttons, while Quartet 2 allows both players to select whatever characters they would like to play during the game.

Legacy

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Manuals

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