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Timber

| 1984
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Developer: Bally Midway
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy4way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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Timber VGMuseum Game Endings
Timber on CAESAR
Timber high score and replay at MARP
Timber 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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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.
History.dat entry:
Timber (c) 1984 Bally Midway.

Timber is an abstract action game in which one or two players assume the role of a lumberjack and have a limited amount of time to chop down a given number of trees that pop up from the ground. The game is controlled with two joysticks, with one stick controlling the player's movement and the other corresponding to left or right chops with the player's axe. Difficulty increases with each level, with the number of trees needed to be chopped down gradually increasing (maxing out at 19) and the allotted time decreasing.

During a round players must avoid beehives that are thrown at them by grizzly bears. The beehives, however, can be destroyed with the player's axe for a 500-point reward. Some trees contain birds that will run around the level after they have been chopped down, awarding 1,000 points if touched by the player.

Every couple of levels players are given the opportunity to amass bonus points. The bonus round begins with the lumberjack standing on a floating log. As the log begins to rotate, players must use their reflexes to stay on top of the log. The first two times this is played, the log is relatively large; on future attempts, the size of the log shrinks considerably. The bonus round ends if the player falls off the log or balances atop it for the duration of the round, in which case 1,000 bonus points are earned.

The two-player simultaneous mode can be played either competitively or cooperatively. In this mode, chopping or pushing down a tree such that it falls on the opponent awards you with 1,000 points.

- TECHNICAL -

[No. 0B60]

Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 2 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz)

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

- TRIVIA -

Timber was released in October 1984.

Licensed to Sega for Japan market.

The main character in the game (as well as the bartender in "Tapper" and the main character in "Domino Man") is based on a Marvin Glass employee named Mike Ferris, who had a similar mustache and bald head, and apparently wore a red T-shirt for much of the time.

The original idea was to do a two-player, simultaneous, competitive game, but this was shelved. A beaver was originally programmed into the game to add some extra competition in cutting down trees but was also removed.

- STAFF -

Designed and programmed by : Steve Meyer
Graphics by : Scott Morrison

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Sony PlayStation 2 [AU] (2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2"
Microsoft XBOX [US] (October 11, 2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model MWO-3201W]"
Nintendo GameCube [US] (October 11, 2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model DOL-GAYE-USA]"
Sony PlayStation 2 [US] (October 11, 2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model SLUS-20997]"
Microsoft XBOX [EU] (October 29, 2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2"
Sony PlayStation 2 [EU] (October 29, 2004) "Midway Arcade Treasures 2 [Model SLES-52844]"

* Computers :
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] [US] (February 17, 2006) "Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition"
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] [EU] (March 17, 2006) "Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe Edition" by Zoo Digital Publishing

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2902&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00100000 E49E 00005959 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
20800000 1C16 00000018 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20810000 1CEB 00000018 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/4) 1st = Tree, 2nd = Honeycomb
20810000 1D8A 000000F3 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (3/4) Stubble
20810000 30E7 000000C3 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (4/4) Felled Tree
00000001 E733 00000000 FFFFFFFF Finish this Level Now!
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 E537 00000008 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 E747 00000000 FFFFFFFF Rapid Fire PL1
00000000 E53B 00000008 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
00000000 E748 00000000 FFFFFFFF Rapid Fire PL2
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
20800000 D0D6 00000000 FFFFFFFF Skip RAM/ROM Check
20810000 D1AD 000000C9 FFFFFFFF Skip RAM/ROM Check (2/2) 1st = RAM Check, 2nd = ROM Check

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