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Venus
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Name: Venus Developer: Konami Year: 1983 Type: Videogame Class: Bootleg
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
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Venus DescriptionA shoot-em-up through the Earth's solar system where the player's ship moves in a circular orbit around the outer edge of the screen while shooting at enemies in the center. Excellent synthesizer music score of Bach's "Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor".Venus was produced by Konami in 1983. Konami released 433 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Other machines made by Konami during the time period Venus was produced include Juno First, Roc'n Rope, Mega Zone, Hyper Olympic, Gyruss, Jackler, 600, Amidar, Jungler, and Scramble. Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game IntroductionThe planets that you must warp to before you can reach Earth are Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. It only takes two warps to arrive at Neptune, but all others including Earth take three warps to get to. Each time you reach a planet, there is a Challenge Stage where you try to destroy as many enemies as possible. After reaching Earth, there is a Challenge Stage followed by a very fast "three warps to Neptune" stage. After this, the levels and the background music start over.This game has often been described as a cross between Galaga and Tempest. MiscellaneousBOOTLEG OF: GyrussVAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Venus CensusThere 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 Venus 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 Venus circuit board for sale. Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. 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.
TechnicalThe games uses two Z80 microprocessors, one 6809 microprocessor, and one 8039 microprocessor. For sound it uses five AY-3-8910 PSGs and a DAC.TriviaAlthough many players believe it's impossible to actually reach Earth, it is possible. Several people on rec.games.video.arcade.collecting have completed the task. Earth is also seen on the title screen during the demo play.Manuals
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