Sky Soldiers

Description

A vertical-scrolling shoot-em-up where the player controls a plane flying over a landscape with no land-based enemies. Collect power-ups to upgrade your ship's speed, shot power and special weapon power selected at beginning of the stage. Fight through different time zones and locations, each with a large boss aircraft.

Sky Soldiers was produced by SNK in 1988.

SNK released 187 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. SNK was based in Japan.

Other machines made by SNK during the time period Sky Soldiers was produced include: Guerrilla War, Guevara, Touchdown Fever, Battle Field, Bermuda Triangle, Mechanized Attack, Gold Medalist, Fighting Soccer, Koukuu Kihei Monogatari - The Legend Of Air Cavalry, and Chopper I

Specs

Name	Sky Soldiers
Developer	SNK (Japan)
Year	1988
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9577
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings	Sky Soldiers Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - ShootSpecial Weapon
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

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

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Miscellaneous

Licensed to ROMSTAR for US manufacture and distribution. This game is very similar to Sky Adventure to the point that they are probably related in some way.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Sky Soldiers Census

There are 15,298 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,680 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 167,066 machines (7,004 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 75 known instances of this machine owned by Sky Soldiers collectors who are active members. Of these, 4 of them are original dedicated machines. 9 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 62 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Sky Soldiers machine for sale. There are 7 active VAPS members with a Sky Soldiers circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. There are 2 active VAPS members looking for Sky Soldiers boards sets.

This game ranks a 22 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 game runs on same hardware as Time Soldiers using a custom ALPHA 8511. The ALPHA IC usually has the name of the chip scratched out on it.

Manuals

Service Instructions - Sky Soldiers Manual — **Service Instructions**
(4 pages, 1.2 MB File)

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