Sky Kid

Description

You play a bi-plane pilot on missions to bomb enemy targets. Left to right scrolling screen, shoot at enemy planes and trucks. Fly down and pick up the bomb as you go along. Cartoon-style graphics and great music.

Sky Kid was produced by Namco in 1985.

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 Sky Kid was produced include: Tower Of Druaga, The, TX-1, Super Xevious, Shoot Away, Grobda, Alien Sector, Baraduke, Dig Dug II, MetroCross, and Motos

Specs

Name	Sky Kid
Developer	Namco (Japan)
Year	1985
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9570
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Namco Galaga
Game Specific	Sky Kid Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Sky Kid Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - FireLoop/Bomb
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
PCB	Sky Kid PCB Image

Game Play

A great fun game, features 40 levels of game play with increasing difficulty and longer missions, with multiple targets to bomb as you go along. Avoid on-coming enemy planes, ground fire and air-balloons. Nice feature in that if you are shot down you can hit the loop button repeatedly to get control back of the plane. Some hidden bonus features, such as shooting the three dancing girls that appear when you complete a mission they turn into flowers. Excellent music and the graphics are all in a cartoon style.

Sky Kid KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.78 (3 votes)

Fun Factor: 2.87

Overall Like	4.00
Fun (Social)	1.67
Fun (Solo)	4.00
Collector Desire	3.50

Technical Rating: 3.54

Gameplay	4.00
Graphics	3.50
Originality	3.50
Sound/Music	2.00

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.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Sky Kid 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).

Common - There are 42 known instances of this machine owned by Sky Kid collectors who are active members. Of these, 3 of them are original dedicated machines. 4 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 35 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with a Sky Kid circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 3 active VAPS members currently looking for Sky Kid.

This game ranks a 15 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 3 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]

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Technical

The game uses a 6809 microprocessor, a 63701 microprocessor, and a Namco 8-channel waveform PSG for sounds.

Legacy

Sky Kid
Sky Kid Deluxe

Manuals

Conversion for Horizontal Monitor Games - Sky Kid Manual — **Conversion for Horizontal Monitor Games**
(3 pages, 0.26 MB File)

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