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Dragon Spirit

ドラゴン・スピリット

Description

You have been transformed into a dragon who's goal is to save the Princess who was taken by "Zawell". To do so, you must conquer the chief enemy at the end of each of nine areas by shooting down flashing creatures and collecting their eggs for mystery power. Difficult game play. Great graphics.

Dragon Spirit was produced by Namco in 1987.

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 Dragon Spirit was produced include: Assassin, Namco's Classic Gaming, Genpei ToumaDen, Hopping Mappy, Return Of Ishtar, The, Quester, Galaga '88, Final Lap, Pac-Mania, and Blazer

Specs

Name	Dragon Spirit
Developer	Namco (Japan)
Year	1987
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	7645
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color 19-inch Sanyo 20-Z2AW
Conversion Class	Namco System 1 JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings	Dragon Spirit Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - FireBomb
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Dragon Spirit KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Trivia

If you complete the game, a scrolling list of credits is followed by a scrolling list of all Namco games up to this point 1987 along with their release dates.

Miscellaneous

Licensed to Atari Games for US manufacture and distribution.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Dragon Spirit Census

There are 15,368 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,708 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,369 machines (7,023 unique titles).

Common - There are 48 known instances of this machine owned by Dragon Spirit collectors who are active members. Of these, 25 of them are original dedicated machines. 22 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Dragon Spirit circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 6 active VAPS members currently looking for Dragon Spirit.

This game ranks a 17 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Technical

The game's hardware is a Namco System 1 board. It uses a three 6809 processors, a 63701 MCU, and many custom ICs. For sound it uses a Namco 8 channel stereo wavedata PSG, a YM3012 DAC, and a YM2151 FM sound chip.

Legacy or Series

Dragon Spirit
Dragon Saber

Manuals

Dragon Spirit - Manual - Dragon Spirit Manual — **Dragon Spirit - Manual**
(52 pages, 5.2 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 203; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (fc09a5a438c386de15000ab5e56184f5)

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