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Spiders (set 1)

 
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Spiders (set 1)

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Developer: Sigma Enterprises Inc.
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), 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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* FB Alpha

* 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:
Spiders (c) 1981 Venture Line, Incorporated.

You control a ship that must shoot at a growing spider web and attacking spiders. You must be careful not to let the spider web reach the bottom of the screen or let too many spiders get past you, or your ship will be destroyed. Every few rounds a woman's face will appear and make affectionate faces at you.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 2.8 Mhz)
Sound CPU : M6802 (@ 3 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Discrete circuitry

Players : 2
Control : 2-way joystick, or 2 buttons (left / right)
Buttons : 1 (Fire)

- TRIVIA -

Spiders was released in December 1981 in the USA by Venture Line under license from the Japanese company Sigma Enterprises. Other machines made by Sigma Enterprises, Incorporated during the time period Spiders was produced include: Battle Cruiser M-12, Golden Invaders, New York New York, and Wanted.

A bootleg of this game of known as Spinner.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

Be sure to keep an eye out for the last spider on each level if you want to rack up a good score. It is the White Spider, which is worth 1,000 points on the first level and increases by 500 points on every level thereafter, up to 5,500 points.

- PORTS -

* Others :
VFD portable game (1982) by Entex.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2585&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 1C27 00000010 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives
20800000 E1F7 00000039 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20810000 E365 00000039 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/5)
20810000 E39E 00000039 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (3/5)
20810000 F4DF 00000039 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (4/5)
20810000 E3B7 00000039 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (5/5) Last part added by Pugsy to stop dieing when too many spiders have escaped off the bottom
00000000 1C4C 0000001B FFFFFFFF All Levels same for WebPower
00000000 1CBC 00000001 FFFFFFFF Rapid Fire
00000000 1CA9 00000008 FFFFFFFF Auto Fire
00010000 1CBC 00000001 FFFFFFFF Auto Fire (2/2)
00200000 1CA4 00000000 FFFFFFFF No Spider & Super Web

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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