Solar Assault

Description

Once again, you control the Vic Viper that shoots at enemy spaceships and other enemies in this first-person space shooter.

Solar Assault was produced by Konami in 1997.

Konami released 434 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Konami was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Solar Assault was produced include: Dance Dance Revolution MegaMix 2, Midnight Run - Road Fighter 2, Jet Wave, Pleasure Castle 2, Versus Net Soccer, Battle Vision, GTI Club, Hang Pilot, Operation Thunder Hurricane, and Poly Stars - Tobe!

Specs

Name	Solar Assault
Developer	Konami (Japan)
Year	1997
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9608
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Medium Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	1
Game Play	Single
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Backlit Buttons: 1 - Power Up Joystick: Analog with trigger and thumb button - Laser\|Missile
Sound	Amplified Stereo with Subwoofer (three channel) 3-D Spatilizer Sound
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Play

This game is simply Gradius in 3-D. It features the same power-up system present the series and, at the beginning, you can choose the preset options or you can customize your own.

Solar Assault KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Solar Assault 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).

Uncommon - There are 11 known instances of this machine owned by Solar Assault collectors who are active members. Of these, 9 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Solar Assault.

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]

Flyers

1996 Konami Amusement Machine Catalog

1996 / 11 Pages

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