Moon Ranger - Videogame by Unknown

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Moon Ranger

Name: Moon Ranger
Developer: Unknown

Year: 1982
Type: Videogame

Class: Bootleg
Genre: Platform
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Irem
Game Specific: Moon Ranger Pinout
Settings: Moon Ranger Dipswitch Settings

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

Joystick: 2-way (left, right)
Buttons: 2 [FireJump]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Moon Ranger Description

The player drives a moon buggy jumping over craters, rocks and landmines, while jumping over obstacles and shooting aliens above and dodging their missiles. Features very catchy background music and cute bouncing tires when the buggy is destroyed. Foreground and background terrain scroll at different rates giving the illusion of depth.

Moon Ranger was produced by Unknown in 1982.

Unknown released 776 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1700.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

TRICK: You have a better chance of hitting a UFO directly above if you jump while firing rapidly. This will compress your shots, making it harder for a UFO to slip through the space between bullets.

Game Play

59 seconds is the fastest time possible to reach checkpoints E, J, O, T, or Z. The game keeps track of the best times to reach these points. If you complete the Beginner's Course, the second course is called the Champion or Expert Course which repeats after successful completion. Mastering speed control and simultaneous use of jump/fire buttons will give you the edge you need to master the game.

Miscellaneous

BOOTLEG OF: Moon Patrol

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Moon Ranger 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 15 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 9 of these machines are owned by our active Moon Ranger collectors. And of these, 9 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 Moon Ranger 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 5 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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