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Tank Busters

Tank Busters - Japanese Title

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Name: Tank Busters
Developer: Valadon Automation

Year: 1985
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Vertical
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: Tehkan
Game Specific: Tank Busters Pinout

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 [FireRotate Gun Turret]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
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Tank Busters Description

Drive your tank through town and shoot enemy bases.

Tank Busters was produced by Valadon Automation in 1985.

Valadon Automation released 6 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980.

Other machines made by Valadon Automation during the time period Tank Busters was produced include Squash, Pickin', Bagman, Le Bagnard, and Millpac.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Play

The object of the game is to shoot all the enemy bases. To do so, you have to drive your tank through a town to find them. On your way, collect fuel before your supply runs out. The game features a top-down view.

Miscellaneous

The game appears to be a conversion/hack of an original Tehkan board set.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Tank Busters Census

There are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are approximately 11 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 6 of these machines are owned by our active Tank Busters collectors. And of these, 6 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Tank Busters circuit board for sale.

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

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 3 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]

Technical

Tehkan board no. 6009-A. Main CPU: Z80B. Sound CPU: 1x Z80 and 2x YM2149

Manuals

  1. Pinout and DIP switch settings  2 Pages, 579 kB File.

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