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Strike Force
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Name: Strike Force Developer: Midway Manufacturing Co. WMS Year: 1991 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Settings: Strike Force Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Strike Force DescriptionA player controls a spaceship on a horizontally left/right scrolling playfield. The object is to travel to various planets, shooting aliens and collecting power-ups while saving humans. Once these tasks have been completed, the mothership arrives to pick you up with any humans you may have dangling from your ship.Strike Force was produced by Midway Manufacturing Co. WMS in 1991. Midway Manufacturing Co. WMS released 36 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1988. Other machines made by Midway Manufacturing Co. WMS during the time period Strike Force was produced include Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Gilligan\'s Island, Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball, Harley-Davidson, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dr. Dude, Bally Game Show, The, Ghost Gallery, Pool Sharks, and Radical!. Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
ConversionThe game uses similar hardware to Smash TV, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, Total Carnage, High Impact Football and Trog. A simple ROM swap cannot be performed due to a protected PAL or two.Game PlayStrike Force is a powered-up version of Defender, though at first this isn't obvious....First comes a screen showing the galaxy, in which you steer your ship to a planet of your choice in order to rescue your stranded comrades there. On this screen an enemy mothership pursues you, so you must pick a planet before it catches you. Once you pick a planet, the similarities to Defender are obvious. You are presented with a side-scrolling view of your ship flying over the planets surface, with a radar screen showing where your fallen comrades are awaiting pickup as well as enemy bogies. You rescue your comrades by touching them with your ship, and you fire your weapons to defeat your opponents. But the resemblance to Defender ends there, as your comrades fight the aliens on the ground, and can fire their weapons while hanging onto the bottom of your ship. This is important, as the enemy includes every sort of flying, hopping, teleporting, crawling, swimming baddie you can imagine, many of them requiring many hits to destroy, which fire all manner of weapons at you and your buddies. In addition, you acquire power-ups throughout the game, which enhance your weapons missiles, lasers, bombs, engines afterburners, warps and/or shields ablative or limited invulnerability. The screen regularly fills with mayhem as you dodge homing missiles and carpet bombs while blasting off the limbs of giant saurian attackers and juggling your ground troops.MiscellaneousThe control scheme differs from this game's prequels in that there are no thrust or reverse buttons. The player's ship moves in whatever direction the 8-way stick is pointing.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Strike Force CensusThere 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 34 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 20 of these machines are owned by our active Strike Force collectors. And of these, 3 are original dedicated machines, 3 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 14 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 Strike Force circuit board for sale. Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Strike Force board sets. This game ranks a 11 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
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