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Sky Soldiers Sky Soldiers - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Sky Soldiers - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

A vertical-scrolling shoot-em-up where the player controls a plane flying over a landscape with no land-based enemies. Collect power-ups to upgrade your ship's speed, shot power and special weapon power selected at beginning of the stage. Fight through different time zones and locations, each with a large boss aircraft.

Sky Soldiers was produced by SNK in 1988.

SNK released 183 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. SNK was based in Japan.

Other machines made by SNK during the time period Sky Soldiers was produced include: Guerrilla War, Guevara, Touchdown Fever, Battle Field, Bermuda Triangle, Mechanized Attack, Gold Medalist, Fighting Soccer, Koukuu Kihei Monogatari - The Legend Of Air Cavalry, and Chopper I

Specs

Name Sky Soldiers
Developer SNK (Japan)
Year 1988
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9577
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings

Sky Soldiers Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Joint
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 - ShootSpecial Weapon
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Sky Soldiers KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Miscellaneous

Licensed to ROMSTAR for US manufacture and distribution. This game is very similar to Sky Adventure to the point that they are probably related in some way.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Sky Soldiers 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).

Very Common - There are 75 known instances of this machine owned by Sky Soldiers collectors who are active members. Of these, 4 of them are original dedicated machines. 9 of them are conversions 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 Sky Soldiers machine for sale. There are 7 active VAPS members with a Sky Soldiers circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Sky Soldiers circuit board set.

This game ranks a 22 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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Technical

The game runs on same hardware as Time Soldiers using a custom ALPHA 8511. The ALPHA IC usually has the name of the chip scratched out on it.

Manuals

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Original ad 11- 8 1/4” Sky Soldiers Romstar ARCADE VIDEO GAME FLYER

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Sky Soldier Arcade Marquee 26" x 8"

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1988 Romstar SKY SOLDIERS video game advertising flyer

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