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Moon Patrol (Williams)

 
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Moon Patrol (Williams)

| 1982
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Developer: Irem (Williams license)
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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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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* FB Alpha

* JFF

* 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:
Moon Patrol (c) 1982 Williams Electronics, Incorporated..

Export version by Williams Electronics for North America. Game developed in Japan by Irem. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Irem entry.

- TECHNICAL -

The Williams Moon Patrol cabinet is a similar design to the one used on "Joust", but with a slightly thicker control panel. This title features painted sideart (a scene showing a moon buggy being attacked, which is done in several shades of blue), and uses a horizontal monitor. The marquee shows another moon scene (this one done up in Marvel comics style graphics) of a yellow moon buggy attacking a hovercraft, with a purple space castle in the background (All of those things are different colors than the ones actually in the game, they probably neglected to show the graphic artist the actual game). The control panel uses a single 2-Way joystick which is mounted centrally, fire and jump buttons are on either side (meaning you can play this title with either hand).

- TRIVIA -

Moon Patrol was released in June 1982 in North America by Williams, under license from Irem.

- PORTS -

NOTE: Only ports released in North America are listed here. For ports released outside of North America, please see the original Irem entry.

* Consoles :
Atari 2600 [US] (1983) "Moon Patrol [Model CX2692]"
Atari 5200 [US] (1983) "Moon Patrol [Model CX5241]"
Atari XEGS
Colecovision [unreleased prototype]
Sony PlayStation [US] (November 30, 1997) "Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Midway Collection 2 [Model SLUS-00450]"
Nintendo Game Boy Color [US] (May 1999) "Arcade Hits - Moon Patrol & Spy Hunter [Model DMG-ADUE-USA]"
Sega Dreamcast [US] (November 15, 2001) "Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits Vol. 2 [Model T-9714N]"

* Computers :
Atari 800 [US] (1982) "Moon Patrol [Model RX8052]"
Apple II [US] (1983)
PC [Booter] [US] (1983)
Commodore VIC-20 [US] (1983)
Commodore C64 [US] (1983) "Moon Patrol [Model RX8533]"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1983) "Moon Hopper"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1983) "Desert Patrol"
Tandy Color Computer [US] (1983) "Lunar Rover Patrol"
TI-99/4A [US] (1984) "Moon Patrol [Model RX8531]"
Atari ST [US] (1987)
PC [MS Windows 95, CD-ROM] [US] (1997) "Arcade's Greatest Hits - The Midway Collection 2"

* Others :
Mobile Phones [US] (July 2, 2003)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=36484&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 E511 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
00000000 E515 0000000A FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000 See the Dip Switch Menu to enable Invincibility.

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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