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Lunar Battle Lunar Battle - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Lunar Battle - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

The player controls a space ship in three different solar systems. Each solar system consists of a home base, a death star, a red alien planet and four regular planets. Each planet has its own unique terrain.

Lunar Battle was produced by Atari in 1982.

Atari released 137 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Atari was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari during the time period Lunar Battle was produced include: Neutron Star, Tempest Tubes, Tempest, Triangle, Maze Invaders, Akka Arrh, Atari Force Liberator, Fast Freddie, Black Widow, and Gravitar

Specs

Name Lunar Battle
Developer Atari (United States)
Year 1982
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8464
Class Prototype
Genre Space
Monitor
  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Vector
  • Color: Color
  • 19-inch Wells-Gardner 19K6100

Conversion Class Atari Color Vector
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Buttons: Rotational (left, right)
  • Buttons: 3 - Fire|Thrust|Shield/Tractor Beam
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
Control Panel Lunar Battle Control Panel Image
PCB Lunar Battle PCB Image

Game Introduction

This is the prototype of Gravitar.

Game Play

The game has the exact same play as Gravitar, but it is much more difficult. The gravitational pull is a lot stronger and the enemy attacks are relentless. The shapes of the bunkers and planets are different, but the terrain is the same.

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Images

Cabinet Information

The game is housed in a Space Duel cabinet (two speakers at waist level and two seakers under the marquee versus Gravitar's one above and one below) and is a typical Atari prototype cabinet that contains no side art. The control panel and marquee are exactly the same as Gravitar with only the name changed on the header.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Gravitar

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Lunar Battle Census

There are 15,211 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,644 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,563 machines (6,981 unique titles).

Scarce - There are 4 known instances of this machine owned by Lunar Battle 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. One is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Lunar Battle circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Lunar Battle.

This game ranks a 1 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]

Technical

The game runs on a converted Space Duel PCB.

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