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Lost Tomb (easy)

 
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Lost Tomb (easy)

| 1982
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Developer: Stern
Controls/Input Device: Control(doublejoy8way), Buttons(1)
Number of Players: 1
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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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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.
History.dat entry:
Lost Tomb (c) 1982 Stern Electronics.

A shoot-em-up set in an ancient, South American pyramid, in which the player must explore a large number of single rooms in the search for treasure. Each room is filled with enemy creatures that must be killed or avoided. The player is equipped with a limited amount of whips and must collect as many items of treasure as possible.

The player is presented with options throughout the game, depending upon which rooms they wish to enter. Once a path is chosen, players must pick up treasures, kill all the monsters in their way, find the key and exit the room as fast as they can; avoiding the potential of setting off an earthquake. Upon exiting a level, the player is presented with a hallway which shows a number of doorways allowing access to any one of several different rooms. This allows players to pick their own route through the game, but the decision which room to tackle next must be taken quickly as players must reach their chosen room quickly or risk being attacked by a flock of screeching birds.

The player's character is armed with an eight-way firing gun (in a similar fashion to Williams' 1982 classic, "Robotron"). In addition to the gun, the player is also equipped with three whips, which can be used to either kill attacking creatures or to knock down any walls that bar the player's progress. Players are given the opportunity to purchase additional whips at the interludes between levels; this is done by inserting an extra credit into the arcade machine and pressing the relevant button.

Treasure must be constantly collected in order to stay alive.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 99

Players : 1
Control : Double 8-way joysticks (one to move, one to fire)
Buttons : 1 (WHIP)

- TRIVIA -

Released in January 1982.

One of the more unusual features in Lost Tomb is a false advertisement that appears. A graphic reads : 'And now a word from our sponsor' with the machine offering to sell the player 99 whips for one credit. A bargain for those intent on serious playing, but also an indication of how expensive this machine could prove to be.

Stern has introduced its first conversion kit with the release of Lost Tomb.

Bill McCallister holds the official record for this game with 45,577,020 points.

- STAFF -

Designed and programmed by : Dan Lee

- PORTS -

* Computers:
Apple II
IBM PC
Atari 8-Bit
Commodore 64

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1410&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 868D 00000050 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
00010000 84C6 000000E0 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time (2/2)
00000000 8617 00000006 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives
00000000 8618 00000008 FFFFFFFF Infinite Ammo
00000000 861B 00000002 FFFFFFFF Infinite Zapper
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000 See the Dip Switch Menu to enable Invincibility.
00000701 861C 0000000C FFFFFFFF Select next Level Use before stair room
00000701 861D 0000005B FFFFFFFF Select next Room Use before stair room

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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