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Heavy Unit

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Heavy Unit - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Fight off ugly aliens in this horizontal shooter.

Heavy Unit was produced by Taito in 1988.

Taito released 488 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Taito was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Heavy Unit was produced include: Hishou Same, Double Dragon, Arkanoid - Revenge Of Doh, Flying Shark, Dr. Toppel Tankentai, Chuka Taisen, Chase H.Q., Fighting Hawk, Bonze Adventure, and Cloud Master

Specs

Name Heavy Unit
Developer Taito (Japan)
Year 1988
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8097
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 - FireBomb
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

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Game Introduction

This is an horizontal shooter with occasional vertical scrolling. The player controls a ship than can switch between two modes - fighter or robot - by picking "T" bonuses. The fighter mode provides a large shot and up/down bombs, whereas the robot mode has a concentrated front-shot and homing energy balls. "P" bonuses increase firepower. Shield bonuses are also available at some places by shooting several secret points.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Heavy Unit Census

There are 15,364 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 167,365 machines (7,023 unique titles).

Common - There are 43 known instances of this machine owned by Heavy Unit collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines. 41 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 Heavy Unit machine for sale. There are 3 active VAPS members with a Heavy Unit circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 10 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]

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