Laser Base

Released in 1981

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Manufacturer: Amstar

Developer: Amstar

Distributor: Amstar

Display ?Unknown?	Orientation Horizontal
Resolution ?Unknown? x ?Unknown?	Colors ?Unknown?, ?Unknown?
Genre Shooting	Attributes Space
Controls 4 Buttons

Game Summary

Asteroids-style shooter with a base instead of ship.

Hardware Platform: -Unique or Unknown-

Game Details

Four buttons, in a Asteroids would come at the base from all four sides and you had to shoot them before they diamond shape, which controlled firing of one of 4 lasers on screen. The four lasers shot up, down, left, right from the four sides of the 'laser base'.

The asteroids came towards the base faster as the game progressed.

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TAITO Manual Page 8
6. Adjustments on Game & Sound P.C. Board (See Fig.4 and Tables 1 and 2) To decrease the sound, turn each pots(VR1 - VR8) as shown below. Fig. 4 VR1... Pot for adjusting volume of UFO. VR2... Pot for adjusting volume of laser base when firing. VR3... Pot for adjusting volume of laser base when destroyed. VR4... Pot for adjusting volume of invaders when destroyed. VR5... Pot for adjusting volume of "beep" when bonus is awarded. VR6... Pot for
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/board pinouts/spinvtaito.txt
SPACE INVADERS TAITO COMP CKT ------ GAME BOARD ------ 1 GND A GND 2 GND B GND 3 GND C 4 SP D SP 5 +12V E +12V 6 F 7 H +12V 8 J GND 9 +5V K +5V 10 RESET
File: /kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/board pinouts/spinvtaito.txt - 2 K - Updated 1997.12.03

TAITO Manual Page 9
SW1, SW2...Switches for adjusting the number of laser bases. (Optional Settings) Laser Bases SW1 SW2 3 ON ON 4 OFF ON 5 ON OFF 6 OFF OFF Table 1 The number of Laser Bases is preset at "3" at the factory. SW4...Switch for adjusting bonus points. The Bonus points are preset at "1500" at the factory. (Optional Settings) SCORE SW4 Laser Base 1500 ON 1 1000 OFF 1 Table 2 SW8...Switch for adjusting play pricing displaye
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Space Invaders.. ---------------- On the A084-90700-B739 board, there are 3 connectors. the 8 pin connector: 1- Common (PINK) 2- Move Right (R-G) 3- Move Left (Blu) 4- ? 6- (Drawing said "Key") N/C 7- Select one Player (G-Y) 8- Select two Player (O-W) The 11 pin connector: 1- ? 2- Coin Switch (BW-W) 3- Coin Switch (BR-B) 4- C.Tap on xformer (Yel) 5- Coin Meter (G-W) Then to Pin 9 on Power Supply 6- "Reset" (Orn) Directly to Pin 6 on Power Supply 7- (Drawing said "Key") N/C 8- Spe
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Path: goonsquad.spies.com!genmagic!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!cssun .mathcs.emory.edu!gatech2!news.sprintlink.net!noc.netcom.net !netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!netcomsv!uu4news.netcom.com!inferno.com!mrbill Subject: liberator docs and pinouts Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting From: mrbill@inferno.com Date: Wed, 15 Nov 95 01:44:05 PST Message-ID: <804734589602@inferno.com> Organization: The Inferno - San Jose, CA Lines: 174 Well, I typed up the docs for someone, so I decided to add the pinouts and p
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Pin-outs for the Wells Gardner NTSC Decoder ------------------------------------------- This decoder is made on a small square PCB and has the model number DY-1-0 at the end of the PCB with the corner cut off. There are two basic revisions, 85X0172 (P371) and 85X0311 (P600). Pin-outs: --------- P204: 1 - Vcc * 2 - Vcc * 3 - GND 4 - Key 5 - Blanking Input P203: 1 - Positive composite Sync out 2 - Key ** 3 - GND 4 - Video Blue out 5 -
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Well, I typed up the docs for someone, so I decided to add the pinouts and post them to the net. Someone please check the pinouts over and if they look fine, upload the file to wiretap(Can't do it myself). Liberator is a 1 or 2 player game. The action takes place in various star systems in outer space. There are missile bases on planets and enemy space ships that the player tries to destroy. The object of the game it to find and destroy the enemy missile bases. The player controls a fleet of 4
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TAITO Manual Page 6
3. Playing Instructions One or two players Insert coin(s) 1 coin - 1 play (3 laser bases...Adjustable 2 coins - 2 plays (or 2player game) Select one or two player game As the "attacking sound" is heard, invaders appear on the screen. Also, a laser base and four fortresses appear on the lower side of the screen. To move the laser base left or right, push the control buttons. To fire laser, push the fire butto
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Additional Space Invaders Pinouts
Submitted by Unknown COMP CKT ------ GAME BOARD ------ 1 GND A GND 2 GND B GND 3 GND C 4 SP D SP 5 +12V E +12V 6 F 7 H +12V 8 J GND 9 +5V K +5V
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