Cosmic Guerilla - MAME machine

Arcade Video game published 45 years ago:

Cosmic Guerilla © 1979 Universal.

For some reason you have 2 of your ships placed in the middle of the playing field and aliens all around them. Luckily, they're protected by 5 rows of barriers and you're on the bottom, doing your job to protect them.

TECHNICAL
This game had great cabinet artwork, a white base, with purple, yellow and black overlaid artwork. It shows a horned demon and lots of swirls. Most interestingly, this has to be the only game to have a politically incorrect slogan plastered on the side -- SUPER VIOLENCE!. The artwork on the sides (and front) was varnished or lacquered, which gives it a shiny and incredibly strong coat, protecting it from scratches and any kind of fading! The control panel had backlit 1- and 2-player info panels. Insert one coin, '1 player' lit up; insert two and '2 player' lit up. This looks real nice on the brushed chrome control panel.

Game ID: 7907

Main CPU: TMS9980A/TMS9981 (@ 1.2285 Mhz)
Sound Chips: Samples, DAC

Screen orientation: Vertical
Video resolution: 192 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh: 60.00 Hz
Palette colors: 16

Players: 2
Control: 2-way joystick
Buttons: 1

TRIVIA
Released in November 1979.

According to Replay Magazine, Cosmic Guerilla brings that unique world of Japanese cartoonists onto a TV game via a deal with the famous cartoonist Shotaro Ishimori. Ishimori was a pioneering manga/anime artist. It is not know if his art was used in the game itself, on the cabinet, or both.

SCORING
Enemy on sides: 20 points
Bonus ships: 50-200 points

SERIES
Cosmic Series

• Cosmic Monsters [Upright model] (1979)
• Cosmic Monsters 2 (1979)
• Cosmic Guerilla (1979)
• Cosmic Alien (1980)
• Devil Zone (1980)
• Zero Hour (1980)
• Space Panic (1980)
• Cosmic Avenger (1981)

PORTS

• COMPUTERS:

Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1983) "Cosmic Guerilla": Crystal Computing
BBC B (1983) "Cosmic Kidnap": Superior Software

CONTRIBUTE
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