Sky Kid - Videogame by Namco

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Sky Kid

Name: Sky Kid
Developer: Namco

Year: 1985
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Namco Galaga
Game Specific: Sky Kid Pinout
Settings: Sky Kid 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 [FireLoop/Bomb]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

Sky Kid PCB Image

Sky Kid Description

You play a bi-plane pilot on missions to bomb enemy targets. Left to right scrolling screen, shoot at enemy planes and trucks. Fly down and pick up the bomb as you go along. Cartoon-style graphics and great music.

Sky Kid was produced by Namco in 1985.

Namco released 310 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1977.

Other machines made by Namco during the time period Sky Kid was produced include Alien Sector, Baraduke, Dig Dug II, MetroCross, Motos, Galaga 3, Dragon Buster, Tower Of Druaga, The, Grobda, and Super Xevious.

Sky Kid - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.78 (3 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 2.87

     Overall 'Like': 4.00
     Fun (Social): 1.67
     Fun (Solo): 4.00
     Collector Desire: 3.50

Technical Impressions Score: 3.54

     Gameplay: 4.00
     Graphics: 3.50
     Originality: 3.50
     Sound/Music: 2.00

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 Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Play

A great fun game, features 40 levels of game play with increasing difficulty and longer missions, with multiple targets to bomb as you go along. Avoid on-coming enemy planes, ground fire and air-balloons. Nice feature in that if you are shot down you can hit the loop button repeatedly to get control back of the plane. Some hidden bonus features, such as shooting the three dancing girls that appear when you complete a mission they turn into flowers. Excellent music and the graphics are all in a cartoon style.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Sky Kid Census

There are 12,133 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,623 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 163,035 machines (6,848 unique titles).

Common - There are approximately 40 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 19 of these machines are owned by our active Sky Kid 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 17 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 Sky Kid circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Sky Kid.

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

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are NOT necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Technical

The game uses a 6809 microprocessor, a 63701 microprocessor, and a Namco 8-channel waveform PSG for sounds.

Legacy

Sky Kid (1985)
Sky Kid Deluxe (1986)

Manuals

Manual 8 Pages, 1.2 MB File.

Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Sky Kid Flyer #3906

eBay Listings

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