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Assault Plus Assault Plus - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

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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 310 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: Youkai Douchuuki, Wonder Momo, Shadowland, Quester, Pac-Mania, Alice In Wonderland, Baraduke 2, Beraboh Man, Face Off, and Final Lap UR

Specs

Name Assault Plus
Developer Namco (Japan)
Year 1988
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 6935
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class Namco System 2 JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
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

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Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

Finishing a level with 0 seconds does NOT give a bonus, as happened in IAssaultI. All other tips apply.

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Cabinet Information

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

Conversion

The board can be swapped with IAssaultI. The boards are identicle and one may be converted to the other simply by swapping two ROMs. Replace IAssaultIs AT2MP0B and AT2MP1B with IAssault PlusI MPR0 and MPR1 respectivly to convert.

Miscellaneous

LICENSED Namco to Atari. The game was only released in Japan, but the screens are in English.PThis game used special hardware for bitmap scaling and rotations.PThis game fixes a few features left out of the original. It now supports twoplayer alternating play, cocktail cabinet installation and two skill levels of play.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Assault Plus 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).

Uncommon - There are 10 known instances of this machine owned by Assault Plus collectors who are active members. Of these, 6 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 IAssaultI.

Legacy

  1. Assault
  2. Assault Plus

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