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Scramble
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Name: Scramble Developer: Konami Year: 1981 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Scramble Pinout Settings: Scramble Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Scramble DescriptionPlayer controls a spaceship that must infiltrate the enemy Scramble system in this side-view shooter/bomber classic. Player must destroy the Base at the end of the system.In the STERN version, the enemy base is much harder to destroy than the Konami version but at least in the STERN version, if you lose a base while destroying the enemy base, you do not lose the life and the game starts you back at the system beginning. Scramble was produced by Konami in 1981. Konami released 433 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Other machines made by Konami during the time period Scramble was produced include Amidar, Super Cobra, 600, Tactician, Jungler, Space War (Leijac), Block Game, Space King, Eledees, and Funky Monkey. Scramble - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.29 (6 votes)
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. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game IntroductionPlayer controls a ship that must infiltrate the five levels of the Scramble system and destroy the Base in the sixth. The first level has the player over a decidedly hilly terrain. Player must dodge or destroy enemy missiles shot from the ground. The second level is inside a cavern. The quarters are not tight, but the swarms of enemy saucers make maneuvering difficult at best. The player exits the cavern and is assaulted by a storm of fireballs in the third level. The fireballs are fast and indestructible and must be manically dodged. The fourth, or City level flies the player over a large metropolis. Missiles fired at the player from the tops of buildings again become a threat. The fifth level sends the player into obnoxiously tight machine tunnels. Pilot error is the only though formidable enemy. The final level has the player make an attack run on the Base, defended only by its position in a deep valley. After the destruction of the Base, the player begins again. Gameplay is further complicated by the player's ship's consumption of fuel. If the player's ship runs out, it crashes into the ground below. Fuel is replenished by the destruction of the fuel tanks that liberally dot the ground during the levels. Each time the player destroys the Base, the ship's fuel consumption increases, dramatically increasing the challenge.MiscellaneousLicensed to Stern for US manufacture and distribution. Stern released the game in April 1981.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Scramble 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 301 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 127 of these machines are owned by our active Scramble collectors. And of these, 75 are original dedicated machines, 7 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 45 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with Scramble machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Scramble circuit boards for sale. Wanted - There are 10 active VAPS members currently looking for Scramble. This game ranks a 71 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 20 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalThe game uses two Z80 microprocessors and two AY-3-8910 PSGs for sound. It had no copy protection, so it could be hacked to run on just about any hardware!Legacy
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