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Assault

Description

Player's tank must obliterate 11 waves of enemy vehicles in mountain and city terrains. Top view rotates around tank, keeping orientation upward. Jump on lift pads to rise above landscape and drop devastating nukes.

Assault was produced by Atari Games in 1988.

Atari Games released 89 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Atari Games was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari Games during the time period Assault was produced include: Xybots, A.P.B., Atari R.B.I. Baseball, Blasteroids, Road Blasters, Vindicators, Cyberball, Tetris, Vindicators Part II, and Toobin'

Specs

Name	Assault
Developer	Atari Games (United States)
Year	1988
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	6934
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Namco System 2 JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	1
Game Play	Single
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right) with trigger - Fire Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right) with trigger - Fire
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Control Panel	Assault Control Panel Image
PCB	Assault PCB Image

Assault KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.59 (5 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.60

Overall Like	3.80
Fun (Social)	3.00
Fun (Solo)	4.00
Collector Desire	3.40

Technical Rating: 3.58

Gameplay	4.20
Graphics	3.20
Originality	3.80
Sound/Music	3.25

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

Finish a level with 0 seconds left and you will get credit for the maximum time on a level. On some levels this can be worth an extra 17,000 points!

Images

Trivia

This game used special hardware for bitmap scaling and rotations.

Cabinet Information

The game cabinet is very narrow in width, similar in style to that of Toobin'.

Conversion

The PCB edge connector is JAMMA with some normally unused pins assigned to the second joystick. Watch those pins if you try a conversion!

Miscellaneous

LICENSED: Namco to Atari.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Assault 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 122 known instances of this machine owned by Assault collectors who are active members. Of these, 104 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 15 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 8 active VAPS members with a Assault machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with a Assault circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Popular - There are 17 active VAPS members currently looking for Assault.

This game ranks a 37 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 23 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

Legacy

Assault
Assault Plus

Manuals

Operators Manual with illustrated parts lists and schematics - Assault Manual — **Operators Manual with illustrated parts lists and schematics**
(104 pages, 7.3 MB File)

Japanese Manual - Assault Manual — **Japanese Manual**
(8 pages, 385 kB File)

Arcade Map - Play This Game

Our members have reported that Assault is playable at 1 locations:

Name	Location	State	Country	Details	Check-ins
Level One Bar + Arcade	130 Hutchinson Ave, Columbus	Ohio	United States	Unknown	0

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