Darwin 4078
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Description
Standard vertical shoot 'em up. You control a surrealistic space fighter, fighting just as surrealistic enemies. Power-up capsules alters the ship's shape, weapons, and makes it larger. There are sixteen levels with a giant enemy at the end of each.
Darwin 4078 was produced by Data East in 1986.
Data East released 175 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1979. Data East was based in Japan.
Other machines made by Data East during the time period Darwin 4078 was produced include: Competition Golf, Boulder Dash DECO, B-Wings, Zero Target, Shootout, Western Express, Fire Trap, Baby In The Hole, Break Thru, and Express Raider
Specs
| Name | Darwin 4078 |
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| Developer | Data East (Japan) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 7527 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Shooter |
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| Conversion Class | Konami Classic |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
| Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs
Pick power-up capsules until you've become "Kues". Next, do not pick any more capsules until you've shrunk to "Zugau". Then, start picking them up again and you will enter another branch on the "tree of evolution". At the top of this tree, you will be "Deame". If you get hit, you become "Black Deame", and are invulnerable to shots. This will last as long as you pick power-up capsules.
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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Darwin 4078 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 7 known instances of this machine owned by Darwin 4078 collectors who are active members. Of these, 7 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 Darwin 4078 circuit board set.
This game ranks a 2 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]
Flyers
1986
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