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Mega Zone
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Name: Mega Zone Developer: Konami Year: 1983 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Mega Zone Pinout Settings: Mega Zone Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Mega Zone DescriptionFight your way through the Megazone in this overhead shooter. Features multiple paths and giant mechanical eyeballs.Mega Zone 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 Mega Zone was produced include Juno First, Track & Field, Roc'n Rope, Hyper Olympic, Gyruss, Jackler, 600, Amidar, Jungler, and Scramble. Mega Zone - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.65 (1 vote)
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Game IntroductionThis game has flavors of several different video games rolled into one. It is mostly like Xevious, being an overhead shooter against a plethora of enemies, each with a unique characteristic. Unlike Xevious, however, that only allowed you to travel in one straight path, Mega Zone periodically allows you to choose different paths. For most of the game, the player's ship flies along a river. When the river forks, the player has the option of following either fork.The game also has elements of Scramble, in that the player fights through numerous zones in the struggle to reach the end. Where Scramble has a progress bar at the top, Mega Zone gives the player a map, and shows the player the progress along the map between lives. The main enemies of Mega Zone are giant robot eyeballs. Easily enough destroyed, they still pose a menace. Smaller eyeballs leave teardrops when destroyed, which when picked up, give bonus points and wipe out all enemies on the screen. MiscellaneousAlthough the PCB does not specifically say so, I believe this game was manufactured by Konami, which licensed the game from Kosuka Co., Ltd.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mega Zone 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).Very Common - There are approximately 55 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 21 of these machines are owned by our active Mega Zone collectors. And of these, 2 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 18 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with extra Mega Zone circuit boards for sale. Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. This game ranks a 16 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
TechnicalThe game uses a 6809 microprocessor, a Z80 microprocessor, and a 8039 microprocessor. For sound it uses one AY-3-8910 PSG and a DAC.Manuals
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