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1943: The Battle Of Midway

Description

The players control WWII planes in this 2-D vertically scrolling shooter. Missions are flown alternately in the clouds against enemy planes and over water where there player must also disable enemy ships. There are many different weapons available via power-ups.

1943: The Battle Of Midway was produced by Capcom in 1987.

Capcom released 229 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Capcom was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Capcom during the time period 1943: The Battle Of Midway was produced include: Legendary Wings, Side Arms - Hyper Dyne, Ares No Tsubasa - The Legendary Soldiers, Speed Rumbler, The, Rush & Crash, Black Dragon, 1943 Kai - Midway Kaisen, Avengers, Black Tiger, and Bionic Commando

Specs

Name	1943: The Battle Of Midway
Developer	Capcom (Japan)
Year	1987
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	6769
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings	1943: The Battle Of Midway Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - Fire/LoopSpecial/Loop
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Bezel	1943: The Battle Of Midway Bezel Image
Control Panel	1943: The Battle Of Midway Control Panel Image
Side Art	1943: The Battle Of Midway Side Art Image
PCB	1943: The Battle Of Midway PCB Image

Video Clips

1943 - The Arcade Game

Game Play

Pressing both buttons simultaneously causes the player's ship to loop out of the 2-D action plane temporarily. This is very useful for getting behind enemy planes. Pressing Special calls up a special attack lightning in the air, a wave over water, but also uses up the player's energy. The game is over when the player runs out of energy, but energy can be replenished via power-ups or for completing a level. Likewise, in two-player mode, players can share life energy by placing both planes over each other for two seconds.

1943: The Battle Of Midway KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.75 (14 votes)

Fun Factor: 4.06

Overall Like	4.29
Fun (Social)	4.46
Fun (Solo)	3.86
Collector Desire	3.38

Technical Rating: 3.45

Gameplay	4.00
Graphics	3.71
Originality	3.15
Sound/Music	2.93

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.

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

A little known trick in the game is to hold down the fire A button at the very end of a board immediately after beating the boss. By holding down the button until the plane takes off in the subsequent board, the game gives you a full ammunition load 65 Seconds This trick only works every third board or so and it may even change your selected weapon.PA good solution if you want to do a big score In each boss level, kill all the ennemies exept the boss. If you do not kill the boss you will start back at the beginning of the level. This trick works only one time for each level boss, but in the last level, round 16, if you never kill the boss you will continue to start back at the beginning every time. It is theoretically possible to score an infinite amount of points

Images

Cabinet - Video Game Marquee: Alternate

Trivia

This game was designed by Yoshiki Okamoto. Okamoto designed two games while at Konami ITime PilotI and IGyrussI. He later went to Capcom where he also designed I1942I, IFinal FightI, and the IStreet FighterI series of games.

Miscellaneous

High scores are not saved when powered down.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op 1943: The Battle Of Midway Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 240 known instances of this machine owned by 1943: The Battle Of Midway collectors who are active members. Of these, 76 of them are original dedicated machines. 42 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 121 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with a 1943: The Battle Of Midway machines for sale. There are 8 active VAPS members with a 1943: The Battle Of Midway circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 7 active VAPS members currently looking for 1943: The Battle Of Midway. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for 1943: The Battle Of Midway boards sets.

This game ranks a 61 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 15 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

1943: The Battle of Midway

1987 / 2 Pages

Legacy

Manuals

1943 - Schematics - 1943: The Battle Of Midway Manual — **1943 - Schematics**
(24 pages, 1.7 MB File)

Instruction Manual - 1943: The Battle Of Midway Manual — **Instruction Manual**
(20 pages, 3 MB File)

Schematics - 1943: The Battle Of Midway Manual — **Schematics**
(36 pages, 2.6 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (3c14972f236254ff71d096a6914e7333)

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that 1943: The Battle Of Midway is playable at 1 locations:

Name	Location	State	Country	Details	Check-ins
Bartari	101 Adams Ave, Scranton	Pennsylvania	United States	Bar	0

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