Turtle Ship

Description

Ancient ship comes to life with new weapons to save human race from annihilation. Space shooter that plays both horizontally and vertically.

Turtle Ship was produced by Philko in 1988.

Philko released 7 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1988. Philko was based in United States.

Other machines made by Philko during the time period Turtle Ship was produced include: Dyger, Twin Falcons, Whizz, Xyonix, and Atomic Point

Specs

Name	Turtle Ship
Developer	Philko (United States)
Year	1988
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	10225
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings	Turtle Ship Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Competitive
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Video Clips

Turtle Ship shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Game Play

The game is a typical space shooter that plays horizontally or vertically depending on the level. Three buttons per player: guns, missiles and special. Special is a super weapon which kills all but the most powerful enemies.

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

Images

Miscellaneous

Licensed to Sharp Image for US manufacture and distribution.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Turtle Ship 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 7 known instances of this machine owned by Turtle Ship collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines. 5 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

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

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.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Manuals

Manual - Turtle Ship Manual — **Manual**
(4 pages, 160 kB File)

Turtle Ship - 12 page operator conversion manual - Turtle Ship Manual — **Turtle Ship - 12 page operator conversion manual**
(12 pages, 3.9 MB File)

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