@SepticLemon Thanks very much! I'm not expecting many donations and it isn't why I did it, but if you set the price as free rather than optional it buries the download button right down at the bottom of the page....
@KingMike This is partly what attracted me to the project. This hardware from a tiny manufacturer, was somehow as advanced or possibly more advanced than that of Galaxian, Sheriff or Monaco GP from the same year. It must be a bitmap screen, as you say, the title screen would have taken up most of a traditional 256 tile ROM, there's some funky stretching blood drip effects too, and text is sometimes straddling the 8x8 grid. Would love to get my hands on it and find out for sure.
Another lost game from 1980, Black Beetles, looks a lot more what you'd expect from a small, inexperienced manufacturer around that time. I've just started work on that one but won't be going at the same pace, a few minutes here and there every day.
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Re: A "Lost" Japanese Arcade Game From The 1970s Has Just Been Recreated For Modern PCs
@SepticLemon Thanks very much! I'm not expecting many donations and it isn't why I did it, but if you set the price as free rather than optional it buries the download button right down at the bottom of the page....
Re: A "Lost" Japanese Arcade Game From The 1970s Has Just Been Recreated For Modern PCs
@KingMike This is partly what attracted me to the project. This hardware from a tiny manufacturer, was somehow as advanced or possibly more advanced than that of Galaxian, Sheriff or Monaco GP from the same year. It must be a bitmap screen, as you say, the title screen would have taken up most of a traditional 256 tile ROM, there's some funky stretching blood drip effects too, and text is sometimes straddling the 8x8 grid. Would love to get my hands on it and find out for sure.
Another lost game from 1980, Black Beetles, looks a lot more what you'd expect from a small, inexperienced manufacturer around that time. I've just started work on that one but won't be going at the same pace, a few minutes here and there every day.