Lunar Rescue - Videogame by Taito

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Lunar Rescue

Name: Lunar Rescue
Developer: Taito

Year: 1979
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Space
Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: unique
Game Specific: Lunar Rescue Pinout

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

Buttons: 1 [Fire/Thrust]
Joystick: 2-way (left, right)

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard
Cocktail

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Lunar Rescue Description

Player controls a lunar lander module that must navigate through a field of asteroids to the bottom of the screen, rescue an astronaut by landing on a plateau, and travel back up to the top through a swarm of flying saucers.

Lunar Rescue was produced by Taito in 1979.

Taito released 487 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Lunar Rescue was produced include Ball Park, Ball Park II, Field Goal, Galaxy Rescue, Galaxy Wars, Top Bowler, Super Speed Race V, Super Block, Space Wipeout, and Road Champion.

Lunar Rescue - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.87 (6 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.87

     Overall 'Like': 4.40
     Fun (Social): 3.67
     Fun (Solo): 4.00
     Collector Desire: 4.60

Technical Impressions Score: 4.45

     Gameplay: 4.40
     Graphics: 4.60
     Originality: 4.20
     Sound/Music: 4.60

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.

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Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard
Cocktail

Conversion

Uses hardware similar or identical to Taito's Space Invaders and supposedly a ROM swap will convert one game to the other.

Miscellaneous

After an anton pillar summons was issued by Taito, Lunar Rescue was licensed to Video Games U.K Ltd.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Lunar Rescue Census

There are 12,127 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,620 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 163,023 machines (6,847 unique titles).

Common - There are approximately 27 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 11 of these machines are owned by our active Lunar Rescue collectors. And of these, 8 are original dedicated machines, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 2 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Lunar Rescue.

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

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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

Technical

The graphics are essentially monochrome with a separate circuit that gives color to rectangular sections of the display.

Manuals

Parts Catalog 20 Pages, 1.3 MB File.

Video Clips

Lunar Rescue shortplay by Ivan Paduano

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Additional References
(logged in members often see more)

The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Lunar Rescue Flyer #580
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Lunar Rescue Flyer #3713
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Lunar Rescue Flyer #3714
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Lunar Rescue Flyer #5967
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Lunar Rescue Flyer #2273

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Lunar Rescue

	1. Lunar Rescue Arcade FLYER 1979 Original Video Game Artwork Space Age Retro Art Auction ends in: 6 days, 21 hours
	FixedPrice	$63.00
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