M-79 Ambush

Description

Use your guns to shoot at enemy motorbikes and tanks.

M-79 Ambush was produced by Ramtek in 1977.

Ramtek released 15 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1973. Ramtek was based in United States.

Other machines made by Ramtek during the time period M-79 Ambush was produced include: Barricade, Hit Me, Sea Battle, Trivia, Deluxe Baseball, Star Cruiser, Dark Invader, and GT Roadster

Specs

Name	M-79 Ambush
Developer	Ramtek (United States)
Year	1977
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8470
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Black and White
Conversion Class	unique
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Play

Gameplay consists of various "targets" (tanks, jeeps, etc.) moving left-to-right (and right-to-left) across the screen. The trick is to correctly time the fire from your M-79 grenade launcher (otherwise known as a "bloop gun") to hit the targets. The shots take some time to hit the target, as they follow a long, arcing trajectory, much like firing a real bloop gun.

M-79 Ambush KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op M-79 Ambush 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).

Uncommon - There are 6 known instances of this machine owned by M-79 Ambush collectors who are active members. Of these, 3 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 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 M-79 Ambush machines for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for M-79 Ambush.

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.

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.

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Technical

M-79 Ambush was the first video game to use a Micro Processor (Intel 8080) to control the game. It was probably the first game to use a true memory-based raster scan display. The previous non Micro-Processor games were what was called "strokers" - in other words the CRT beam was moved (stroked) in a pattern to render the game action. M-79 had a small raster memory and scanned the crt just as a TV does today. It was all new technology for games to render live action on the screen with a raster display.

Ramtek was the first to develop raster scan Micro Processor control display systems and used that basic concept in this game.

Manuals

Operator's Manual - M-79 Ambush Manual — **Operator's Manual**
(43 pages, 9.95 MB File)

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 45; Color photo Price guide: No
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 45; Color photo

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