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Space Gun

Description

A horizontally- and vertically scrolling shoot-em-up where two survivors battle their way through an alien-infested space station to rescue hostages.

Space Gun was produced by Taito in 1990.

Taito released 486 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Taito was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Space Gun was produced include: Twin Hawk, Flipull, Asuka Asuka, Nastar, WGP, Aa Eikou No Koushien, Air Inferno, American Horseshoes, Aqua Jack, and Double Axle

Specs

Name	Space Gun
Developer	Taito (Japan)
Year	1990
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9659
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color Image reflected via a mirror 25-inch monitor
Conversion Class	JAMMA+
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Gun: Positional with trigger and pump - Change Weapons Pedals: 1 - Halt/Reverse
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Instructions	Space Gun Instructions Image
Control Panel	Space Gun Control Panel Image

Game Play

Blast your way through the levels before your time limit runs out. Free the hostages and wipe the alien menace from the moonbase.

In a two-player game, if both players press their pedals simultaneously, the characters move at twice the speed of the single-player mode.

Space Gun KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.71 (4 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.85

Overall Like	4.00
Fun (Social)	4.00
Fun (Solo)	3.50
Collector Desire	3.75

Technical Rating: 3.56

Gameplay	3.75
Graphics	3.75
Originality	3.25
Sound/Music	3.50

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.

Images

Cabinet Information

The cabinet is quite unique since the marquee looms out over the leaning players. The sides contain 3-D molded plastic decals which are blue in colour and resemble a large alien cocoon.

Conversion

The game seems to use the same sort of cabinet as Terminator 2: Judgment Day but with different guns and decals. Probably an easy enough conversion.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Space Gun 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).

Very Common - There are 57 known instances of this machine owned by Space Gun collectors who are active members. Of these, 43 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 13 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with a Space Gun machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Space Gun circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There are 5 active VAPS members currently looking for Space Gun. There are 3 active VAPS members looking for Space Gun boards sets.

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.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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

Flyers

Manuals

Service Manual - Electrocoin - Space Gun Manual — **Service Manual - Electrocoin**
(24 pages, 494 kB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Dedicated (48c85e593262fa54533276a8c0b1c862)

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