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Green Beret

Description

A side scrolling platform combat game. Slash your way through enemy troops using a knife and collect special weapons to hasten your progress as you seek to "rescue the captives". Music includes tunes from old WWII movies.

Green Beret was produced by Konami in 1985.

Konami released 434 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Konami was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Green Beret was produced include: Bubble System, Time Pilot '84, Super Basketball, Sky Jaguar, Shinnyuushain Tooru-kun, Finalizer - Super Transformation, Galactic Warriors, Gradius, Jail Break, and Kicker

Specs

Name	Green Beret
Developer	Konami (Japan)
Year	1985
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8007
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Fighter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Konami Classic
Game Specific	Green Beret Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Green Beret Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - KnifeSpecial Weapon
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Video Clips

Mame Green Beret

Green Beret (Arcade) [Konami] Retro Danuart

Green Beret KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.04 (2 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.35

Overall Like	3.50
Fun (Social)	1.00
Fun (Solo)	3.50
Collector Desire	3.50

Technical Rating: 2.71

Gameplay	3.50
Graphics	2.50
Originality	2.50
Sound/Music	1.00

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.

Images

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Rush'n Attack

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Green Beret 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 65 known instances of this machine owned by Green Beret collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 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. 62 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Green Beret machine for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with a Green Beret circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Green Beret. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Green Beret circuit board set.

This game ranks a 25 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 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

PlayChoice-10: 10 Top Games In One Goliath Cabinet

1987

Technical

Konami board number GX577, single board.

Manuals

Operators Manual - Green Beret Manual — **Operators Manual**
(7 pages, 2 MB File)

Green Baret schematic - Green Beret Manual — **Green Baret schematic**
(1 page, 195 kB File)

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