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Tornado

トルネード

Description

Defend the human population from swarms of attacking aliens.

Tornado was produced by Data East in 1981.

Data East released 178 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1979. Data East was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Data East during the time period Tornado was produced include: Mad Alien, Nebula, Space Fighter Mark II, Terranean, Tomahawk 777, Manhattan, Ninja, DECO Cassette System, Astro Fantasia, and Lock 'N Chase

CABINET PICTURE NEEDED FOR Tornado - Click for details on how to contribute. — Cabinet

Specs

Name	Tornado
Developer	Data East (Japan)
Year	1981
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	10164
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Data East Cassette
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - FireSuper Bomb
Sound	Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

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

Images

Cabinet Information

The game was released as a conversion kit.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Tornado Census

There are 15,387 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,716 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,516 machines (7,025 unique titles).

Very rare - There are no known instances of this game owned by one of our active members.

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

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

These boards have a different layout than the original Defender. There are only two game boards and a seperate audio amp.

Fixes

Most of the ICs and ROMs are identical to those used in Defender.

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