Rygar - Videogame by Tecmo

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Rygar

Name: Rygar
Developer: Tecmo

Year: 1986
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Tehkan
Game Specific: Rygar Pinout
Settings: Rygar Dipswitch Settings

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

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [ShootJump]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Rygar Description

A warrior with a huge mace travels through a strange world killing monsters. Pick up insignias and stars for bonus points. The game has 27 different levels.

Rygar was produced by Tecmo in 1986.

Tecmo released 63 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1985.

Other machines made by Tecmo during the time period Rygar was produced include Mighty Bomb Jack, Tee'd Off, Solomon's Key, Argos No Senshi - Legendary Warrior, American Football, Mega Force, Quiz Kokology 2, A Round The World, 1 on 1 Government, and Happy Pierrot Dream Rail 2.

Rygar - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.12 (7 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 4.06

     Overall 'Like': 4.83
     Fun (Social): 3.17
     Fun (Solo): 4.83
     Collector Desire: 4.50

Technical Impressions Score: 4.71

     Gameplay: 4.83
     Graphics: 4.50
     Originality: 5.00
     Sound/Music: 4.50

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 Information

This game was only sold as a conversion kit.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

With regard to the US ROM Sets, it appears that the 'rygar' set is a bug fix release for 'rygar2' ROMs. The original version was probably renamed to 'rygar2' when the new, fixed 'rygar' set was created.

The differences between these revisions are:

'rygar2' has a bug in the code which lets player two start a game when player one is already playing. You need to set a DIP switch to enable this behaviour it is usually on by default. If you press '2' while player one is playing a one-player game, 'rygar2' will check if you have one or more credits before it registers that you're now in a two-player game, but it won't deduct the credit.
'rygar2' has some code that's not in 'rygar'. It seems to be blanking out seven characters on the screen. Maybe it's removing the word 'player 2' or 'player 1'.
In 'rygar2', if player two starts while player one is already playing, it says 'player 2' instead of 'player 1' at the top right.
The first screen of 'rygar2' says "ALL RIGHT RESERVED" which is missing the 'S' that is present in 'rygar'.

On level 13 there is a hidden star that will award you 1000000 points!

Conversion

Any cabinet equipped with a Tehkan wiring harness will accept this PCB. The game only requires one joystick and two buttons. However, two joysticks and four buttons will be required if the game is installed in a cocktail cabinet.

Game Introduction

You play the part of a barbarian warrior trying to reclaim the land from an evil Dominator and his legions of minions. You have to fight your way through 27 rounds using a unique weapon that has a lethal razor sharp disk that is thrown at enemies!

Game Play

Four weapons are available as droppers - Length, Size, Shoot Upwards and Kill Stomp for when you stand on enemies heads. A Shield is the fifth weapon and is available only on certain screens or via shooting a gravestone that contains a red and white question mark. 1 million point bonus available at the star tree on sheet 13.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Argos No Senshi - Legendary Warrior

The differences between the US and Japanese ROM sets are: the demo sequences differ

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Rygar 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).

Very Common - There are approximately 93 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 29 of these machines are owned by our active Rygar collectors. And of these, 2 are original dedicated machines, 6 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 21 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 4 active VAPS members with extra Rygar circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Rygar. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Rygar circuit board set.

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

This game ranks a 12 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Technical

CPU: Z80 7.6 MHz
SOUND CPU: Z80 4 MHz
SCREEN: 256x224 horz 60Hz
COLORS: 1024 dynamic
SOUND: YM-3812 4 MHz

Manuals

Pinout and DIP Switch Settings 7 Pages, 1.1 MB File.
Service Instruction Manual 11 Pages, 823 kB File.

Video Clips

Rygar shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Ultimate Rygar

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Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Rygar Flyer #881
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Rygar Flyer #3070
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Rygar Flyer #5387

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