Assault Plus
アサルト・プラス
Description
The player's tank must obliterate multiple waves of enemy vehicles in mountain and city terrains. The game's top-down view rotates around tank which keeps the vehicle pointing in a forward direction. Jump on lift pads to rise above the landscape and drop devastating nukes.
Assault Plus was produced by Namco in 1988.
Namco released 313 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1977. Namco was based in Japan.
Other machines made by Namco during the time period Assault Plus was produced include: Pac-Mania, Final Lap, Blazer, Dragon Spirit, Galaga '88, Beraboh Man, Final Lap UR, Face Off, Baraduke 2, and Alice In Wonderland
Specs
| Name | Assault Plus |
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| Developer | Namco (Japan) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 6935 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Shooter |
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| Conversion Class | Namco System 2 JAMMA |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
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| Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs
Finishing a level with 0 seconds does NOT give a bonus, as happened in Assault. All other tips apply.
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Cabinet Information
The game cabinet is very narrow in width, similar in style to that of Toobin.
Conversion
The board can be swapped with Assault. The boards are identical and one may be converted to the other simply by swapping two ROMs. Replace Assault's AT2MP0B and AT2MP1B withAssault PlusMPR0 and MPR1 respectively to convert.
Miscellaneous
LICENSED Namco to Atari. The game was only released in Japan, but the screens are in English.
This game used special hardware for bitmap scaling and rotations.
This game fixes a few features left out of the original. It now supports two-player alternating play, cocktail cabinet installation and two skill levels of play.
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Assault Plus Census
There are 15,466 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,752 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 168,554 machines (7,079 unique titles).
Uncommon - There are 9 known instances of this machine owned by Assault Plus collectors who are active members. Of these, 5 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 3 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Assault Plus circuit board set.
This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]
Technical
This game is a ROM chip upgrade for Assault.
Legacy or Series
- Assault
- Assault Plus
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