Red Alert

Description

Defend six cities against attacking enemies. Assault waves consist of planes, helicopters, night bombers, and MIRV bombs.

Red Alert was produced by Irem in 1981.

Irem released 90 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Irem was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Irem during the time period Red Alert was produced include: Gingateikoku No Gyakushuu, Sky Chuter, UniWar S, Capsule Invader, PT Reach Mahjong, Andromeda, Demoneye-X, Panther, Moon Patrol, and Tropical Angel

Specs

Name	Red Alert
Developer	Irem (Japan)
Year	1981
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9288
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
Game Specific	Red Alert Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Red Alert Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Buttons: Rotational (left, right) Buttons: 1 - Fire
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Side Art	Red Alert Side Art Image

Game Play

Similar to Space Invaders in that attack waves move back and forth across the screen, getting faster in successive waves. However, the graphics and storyline are more advanced.

The objective is to defend six cities from an unnamed enemy's attacks. The assaults consist of waves of planes, helicopters, night bombers, and MIRV bombs. Night missions are illuminated only by two spotlights, which the enemy can destroy.

Each wave is also a fight against the clock - fail to win in time and a MIRV bomb will be launched. Nearly everybody who has played this game seems to remember the cityscape backgrounds and the night missions.

Red Alert KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.65 (2 votes)

Fun Factor: 4.80

Overall Like	5.00
Fun (Social)	5.00
Fun (Solo)	5.00
Collector Desire	4.00

Technical Rating: 4.50

Gameplay	5.00
Graphics	4.00
Originality	4.50
Sound/Music	4.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Red Alert 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 22 known instances of this machine owned by Red Alert collectors who are active members. Of these, 17 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 - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Red Alert.

This game ranks a 7 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.

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Technical

The game uses a 6502 as the main CPU. There are no dedicated graphics ROMs since it uses an uncommon technique that assembles all the graphics into RAM.

Manuals

Installation Operation and Service Manual - Red Alert Manual — **Installation Operation and Service Manual**
(62 pages, 5.4 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (c75e68ee-d414-4ccf-806c-0c15a9346245)

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