Super Cobra - Videogame by Konami

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Super Cobra

Name: Super Cobra
Developer: Konami

Year: 1981
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Konami Classic
Game Specific: Super Cobra Pinout
Settings: Super Cobra Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard
Cocktail

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Super Cobra Description

A helicopter flies horizontally through 10 levels, with different enemies on each level, and finally a base where it must capture the booty and escape. A game can be continued where it left off. Catchy theme music.

Super Cobra 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 Super Cobra was produced include Amidar, Scramble, 600, Tactician, Jungler, Space War (Leijac), Block Game, Space King, Eledees, and Funky Monkey.

Super Cobra - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.33 (2 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 4.40

     Overall 'Like': 4.50
     Fun (Social): 4.50
     Fun (Solo): 4.50
     Collector Desire: 4.00

Technical Impressions Score: 4.25

     Gameplay: 4.50
     Graphics: 4.50
     Originality: 4.00
     Sound/Music: 4.00

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
Cocktail

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Super Cobra 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 114 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 52 of these machines are owned by our active Super Cobra collectors. And of these, 26 are original dedicated machines, 5 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 is one active VAPS member with a Super Cobra machine for sale. There are 5 active VAPS members with extra Super Cobra circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 3 active VAPS members currently looking for Super Cobra.

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

This game ranks a 8 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 two Z80 microprocessors and two AY-3-8910 PSGs for sound.

Legacy

Scramble (1981)
Super Cobra (1981)

Manuals

Technical Manual Zaccaria 17 Pages, 2.3 MB File.
Manual 9 Pages, 2.1 MB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 117; Color photo; Price guide:

Additional References
(logged in members often see more)

The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Super Cobra Flyer #1064
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Super Cobra Flyer #4157
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Super Cobra Flyer #3846

eBay Listings

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Super Cobra

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