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Armored Car (set 2)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Dipswitchs
  9. Roms list
  10. Chips list
  11. Categories
  12. History
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Game infos

Description Armored Car (set 2)
Name armorcar2
Manufacturer Stern Electronics
Year 1981
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .034b06
Romset size 0 B
Romset file files
Romset zip 0 B
Language English
Genre Maze

Parent and clones

Parent armorcar : Armored Car (set 1) (1981)

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status good
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound good
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt no
Input players 1
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 4 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 768 224 60.606061 18432000 1152 0 768 264 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 2c 4096 e393bd2f 6a5079d1f5d724e5f643cbc5352fc43d0b652e05 maincpu 0 good no
arcade 2e 4096 b7d443af 1ce41e11a7fcfd039fbff03c4382ae29b601ed50 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade 2g 4096 e67380a4 a9a87e769d1ef223ae26241e9211c97b3d469656 maincpu 2000 good no
arcade 2h 4096 72af7b37 c9cd0a0a3e34fc7b12822f75eb511f0850703f55 maincpu 3000 good no
arcade 2j 4096 e6b0dd7f 98292fea03bff028ba924a49f0bfa49377018860 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade 82s123.6e 32 9b87f90d 82s123.6e d11ac5e4a6057301ea2a9cbb404c2b978eb4c1dc proms 0 good no
arcade cpu.5f 2048 8a3da4d1 cpu.5f 4d2ef48aeb9099fdd145e11e2485e0bf8d87290d gfx1 0 good no
arcade cpu.5h 2048 85bdb113 cpu.5h f62da0ea0c29feb10d8d1ce8de28fd750a53b40a gfx1 800 good no
arcade sound.5c 2048 54ee7753 sound.5c 3ebfa2cadf33acb4d24aa50cfa4713355cc780a3 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade sound.5d 2048 5218fec0 sound.5d c8f84f1e6aafc544e5acf48b245e8b1edb63211e audiocpu 800 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A 8910.1 audio 1789772
DISCRETE konami audio
Speaker speaker audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 1789772

Categories

History


Arcade Video game published 38 years ago:

Armored Car (c) 1981 Stern Electronics, Incorporated.

An overhead view maze game where you drive a money van (the armoured car) through as it scrolls from right to left. Some intersections are marked with directions. You pick up money to deliver to banks while avoiding criminals by dropping saw horses in roadway. Fuel levels must be replenished at gas stations along the way.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

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

- TRIVIA -

First game for Stern created by Chris Oberth. Before working for Stern he was at Marvin Glass designing/prototyping handheld electronic games such as 'Finger Bowl'.

Armored Car was partly inspired by "Targ".

Roger Isetts holds the official record for this game with 101010 points on March 1, 1983.

- UPDATES -

REVISION 1 (Set 2) :
* First release.

REVISION 2 (Set 1) :
* Bug fixes release.

- SCORING -

Moving one block : 10 points.
Picking up Money : 100 points.
Blowing up Robber : 200 points.
Unlocking locks : 1000 points.
Crash TNT truck into wall : 1000 points.

Bonus points : 100 per dollar picked up and deposited in bank.

- STAFF -

Designer and Programmer : Chris Oberth, Gunar Licitis

- CONTRIBUTE -

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