Ambush | 1983

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Developer: Nippon Amuse Co-Ltd
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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Ambush VGMuseum Game Endings
Ambush on CAESAR
Ambush high score and replay at MARP
Ambush on datObase

Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]


WIP:

- 0.147u2: hap fixed clone Omega Fighter Special. The game fails to boot or finish post. After showing bad rom errors, the game resets.

- 0.147u1: Fixed maincpu rom loading.

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 rom loading.

- 0.89u3: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 5MHz.

- 0.37b10: Yochizo added 'Omega Fighter' (UPL 1989) and clone Omega Fighter Special.

- 21st November 2000: Yochizo fixed some graphics bugs in the Omega Fighter / Atomic Robo-kid driver.

- 8th November 2000: Yochizo sent in a driver for Omega Fighter and Atomic Robo-kid.

- 25th April 1999: Dumped Omega Fighter Special.


LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)


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* JFF

* Raine


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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.

History.dat entry:
Ambush (c) 1983 Tecfri.

An early shoot 'em up. You must first attempt to take off you spaceship by repeatedly pressing left and right. Then you must attempt to fight off enemy spaceships.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Ambush was released in June 1983.

The original version was done by Tecfri and it was the first game from this Spanish manufacturer located in Barcelona. They licensed the game to Nippon Amuse for the Japanese market. And also licensed to Volt Elec for manufacture and distribution.

Alberto Zin holds the official record for this game with 591,150 points on July 9, 1984.

- STAFF -

Programmers : Javier Valero, Josep Quingles, Luis Jonama

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=76&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 804C 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00000000 8434 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
00000000 844F 00000030 FFFFFFFF Infinite Fuel
20800000 1993 000000C9 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20810000 4AA0 00000018 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/5) 1st = Object, 2nd = Course out (Side)
20810000 4F50 00000018 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (3/5) Course out (Front)
20910000 7C9F 00001B18 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (4/5) Fail of landing
20810000 7CD1 00000000 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (5/5) Fail of landing out of course
20800000 4AB9 00000018 FFFFFFFF No Speed Down Out of Course
00000000 8049 0000000A 0000000A Rapid Fire
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 8059 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 805A 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file

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