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Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Choose one of three different planes to save New York. A vertical shooter with weapon power-ups.

Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation was produced by Data East in 1989.

Data East released 175 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 Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation was produced include: Birdie Try, Bloody Wolf, Bad Dudes Vs. Dragon Ninja, Battle Rangers, Chelnov: Atomic Runner, Kuhga - Operation Code 'Vapor Trail', Fighting Fantasy, Act-Fancer: Cybernetick Hyper Weapon, Hippodrome, and Playboy

Vapor Trail
Vapor Trail

Specs

Name Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation
Developer Data East (Japan)
Year 1989
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 10296
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Joint
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 - FireSpecial
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

A great shooter in all respects because of the driving rock soundtrack, multiple scroll speeds and good use of parallax scrolling. There is also a genuine feeling of being challenged but never overwhelmed.

Game Play

The game scrolls at various speeds forwards and even backwards while fighting the end-of-level bosses. Shooting certain enemies releases power-ups and bonuses. There are different main weapon systems such as rapid-firing guns, lasers, bombs etc. that give the game a limited strategy. Certain levels and sections are easier complete with particular weapons.

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Trivia

The marquee has a copyright of 1990.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation 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 34 known instances of this machine owned by Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 30 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 Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation circuit board set.

This game ranks a 9 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

CPU: 68000
SOUND CPU: HuC6280
SOUND: 2xOKI6295 and YM-2151 and YM-2203

Legacy

  1. Vapor Trail - Hyper Offence Formation
  2. Wolf Fang
  3. Skull Fang

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