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Horizon

| 1985
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Developer: Irem
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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Horizon VGMuseum Game Endings
Horizon on CAESAR
Horizon high score and replay at MARP
Horizon on datObase
Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]


WIP:

- 0.147u2: hap fixed clone Omega Fighter Special. The game fails to boot or finish post. After showing bad rom errors, the game resets.

- 0.147u1: Fixed maincpu rom loading.

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 rom loading.

- 0.89u3: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 5MHz.

- 0.37b10: Yochizo added 'Omega Fighter' (UPL 1989) and clone Omega Fighter Special.

- 21st November 2000: Yochizo fixed some graphics bugs in the Omega Fighter / Atomic Robo-kid driver.

- 8th November 2000: Yochizo sent in a driver for Omega Fighter and Atomic Robo-kid.

- 25th April 1999: Dumped Omega Fighter Special.


LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)


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* Raine


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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.
History.dat entry:
Horizon (c) 1985 Irem.

A horizontally scrolling shooter, Horizon is the sequel to Moon Patrol. Both were developed by Irem; Moon Patrol was licensed to Williams.

Players take control of hover vehicle armed with a turret and a cannon, rolling over the terrain and alternating their position and perspective on three different lanes to destroy enemies and dodge attacks while avoiding obstacles and picking up fuel and other items.

- TECHNICAL -

Irem M-62 system hardware

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Motorola M6803 (@ 894.886 Khz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 894.886 Khz), (2x) MSM5205 (@ 384 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 55.00 Hz
Palette colors : 512

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1142&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 E04D 00000007 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives
00000000 E03E 0000006E FFFFFFFF Infinite Fuel Turn this cheat OFF at the end of each zone
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000 See the Dip Switch Menu to enable Invincibility.

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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