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Nemesis
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Name: Nemesis Developer: Konami Year: 1985 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Nemesis Pinout Settings: Nemesis Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Nemesis DescriptionThis is a horizontally scrolling shoot-em-up in which the player destroys waves of oncoming enemies.Nemesis was produced by Konami in 1985. Konami released 433 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Other machines made by Konami during the time period Nemesis was produced include Jail Break, Gradius, Green Beret, Galactic Warriors, Finalizer - Super Transformation, Hyper Olympic '84, Antarctic Adventure, Badlands, Comic Bakery, and Circus Charlie. Cabinet InformationThe cabinet art has a picture of the playerss ship flying towards a large enemy structure while dodging laser fire.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game IntroductionThis was one of the first games that allowed the player to choose what weapon power-ups were added to the ship.Game PlayWaves of enemies are destroyed and levels are completed by destroying a guardian. If a whole wave of enemies is destroyed a power orb is released that, when collected, increases an indicator at the bottom of the screen enabling the player to select various power-ups such as bombs, speedup, lasers, and orbitals that mirror the players movements. Game difficulty increces depending on how many power ups the player has, so sometimes it is advantageous to not power-up your ship too much.MiscellaneousCOPY OF: GradiusVAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Nemesis 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).Common - There are approximately 31 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 12 of these machines are owned by our active Nemesis collectors. And of these, It is an original dedicated machine., 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 10 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Nemesis circuit board set. This game ranks a 13 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
TechnicalRuns on the Konami GX400 boardset.TriviaIn Japan, the game spawned a couple of spoofs called Parodius Da! and it's sequel Gokujyo Parodius. The games' graphics were made to be "cute" and the enemies were changed to cats, penguins, etc.Legacy
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