Venus

Description

A shoot-em-up through the Earth's solar system where the player's ship moves in a circular orbit around the outer edge of the screen while shooting at enemies in the center. Excellent synthesizer music score of Bach's "Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor".

Venus was produced by Konami in 1983.

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 Venus was produced include: Jackler, Video Hustler, Tactician, Super Cobra, Scramble, Gyruss, Hyper Olympic, Juno First, Mega Zone, and Roc'n Rope

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

Specs

Name	Venus
Developer	Konami (Japan)
Year	1983
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	10302
Class	Bootleg
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	Konami Classic
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player Ambidextrous
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

The planets that you must warp to before you can reach Earth are Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. It only takes two warps to arrive at Neptune, but all others including Earth take three warps to get to. Each time you reach a planet, there is a Challenge Stage where you try to destroy as many enemies as possible. After reaching Earth, there is a Challenge Stage followed by a very fast "three warps to Neptune" stage. After this, the levels and the background music start over.

This game has often been described as a cross between Galaga and Tempest.

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

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Trivia

Although many players believe it's impossible to actually reach Earth, it is possible. Several people on rec.games.video.arcade.collecting have completed the task. Earth is also seen on the title screen during the demo play.

Miscellaneous

BOOTLEG OF: Gyruss

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Venus 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 9 known instances of this machine owned by Venus collectors who are active members. Of these, 9 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.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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Technical

The games uses two Z80 microprocessors, one 6809 microprocessor, and one 8039 microprocessor. For sound it uses five AY-3-8910 PSGs and a DAC.

Manuals

Pinout and DIP switch settings - Venus Manual — **Pinout and DIP switch settings**
(1 page, 326 kB File)

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