0.68 [Aaron Giles]
WIP:
- 0.158: Stiletto removed Allied Leisure mention in manufacturer of clone eggventra. Pretty sure the "A.L. Australia" logo in eggventra, does not have anything to do with the old American company Allied Leisure. Plus having an (originally Australian) company named Leisure & Allied Industries has not helped matters over the years.
- 0.153: Verified the correct user1 rom size for clone Egg Venture Deluxe [Brian Troha].
- 0.147u2: Brian Troha and The Dumping Union added clone Egg Venture (Release 2). Brian Troha added DIP locations to the Egg Venture sets. Added new 512k oki1/2/3 sound roms. Added 4x 'Unused' dipswitches. Fixed rom names.
- 0.133u1: Renamed (eggvent8) to (eggventr8), (eggvent7) to (eggventr7), (eggventa) to (eggventra) and (eggvntdx) to (eggventrd).
- 0.128u1: Brian Troha added clone Egg Venture (Release 8).
- 0.127u3: Additional documentation for Egg Venture & Lethal Justice [Brian Troha]: Added JAMMA pinout, Gun Connector pinout and Sound & Amp information.
- 0.127u2: Guru added clone Egg Venture (A.L. Release). Added Egg Venture PCB info to the driver.
- 0.122u6: Changed TMS34010 CPU1 clock speed to 40 MHz and VSync to 61.232460.
- 0.107: Fixed sound rom names.
- 0.92: Brian Troha added clone Egg Venture (Release 7). Changed parent description to 'Egg Venture (Release 10)'.
- 0.81u4: Aaron Giles merged Lethal Justice and Egg Venture memory maps, fixed video size in Egg Venture to correct flicker, switched to VIDEO_RGB_DIRECT and removed unnecessary ROM regions and memcpy'ing. Changed visible area to 512x236.
- 0.74u2: Changed visible area to 512x239.
- 0.68: Aaron Giles added 'Egg Venture' (The Game Room 1997) and clone Egg Venture Deluxe.
- 18th February 2003: Brian Troha added the Deluxe version of Egg Venture to the Lethal Justice driver.
- 23rd January 2003: Brian Troha fixed the dipswitches in Egg Venture.
- 22nd January 2003: Aaron Giles wrote a driver for Egg Venture.
LEVELS: 23 (original eggventr is endless!)
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Egg Hunt
Egg Venture
Eggs Playing Chicken
Chicken Farm
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Pooyan
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Vs. Duck Hunt
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Clay Pigeon
Poly-Play (ZRE) (Hirschjagd)
Vs. Gumshoe
Hit 'n Miss
Fireball
Skeet Shot
Tickee Tickats
One Shot One Kill
Egg Venture
Trap Shoot Classic
Mallet Madness
Deer Hunting USA
Turkey Hunting
Wing Shooting Championship
Trophy Hunting - Bear & Moose
Hammer
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Arcade Video game published 22 years ago:
Egg Venture (c) 1997 The Game Room.
A 'kid-friendly' animated shoot'em up game. Players use an optical gun to shoot at the 'bad eggs' while avoiding shooting the 'good guy eggs'. Players advance stage by stage to 38 different levels by shooting a certain number of targets.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : TMS34010 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (3x) OKI6295 (@ 15.151 Khz)
Players : 2
Control : lightgun
Buttons : 1
- TRIVIA -
Egg Venture was a joint project between arcade parts company 'The Game Room' and 'ICE' (Innovative Creations in Entertainment), each of whom released their own version. The game was programmed by Kyle Hodgetts and does have several minor glitches, mainly down to the nature of the hardware. Problems with the availability of components meant that Kyle was forced to duplicate the sound system three times on the board to achieve polyphony, rather than using a simpler, but more expensive YM/OKI combination.
Egg Venture does not have an ending and it's only scoring system is the printing of the Dynamic Play Adjustment skill ranking after every 'day'.
The game appears to use (in places) the bass line from 'The Great Egg Race' by Martin Cooke and Richard Denton of BBC Records, although this is apparently a legitimate use, as the music came from a royalty-free library disc.
Following the success of Egg Venture, or more likely to fix the bugs present, a 'Deluxe version' was made.
The Egg Venture characters were later used in a kids redemption game.
- STAFF -
Programmed by : Kyle Hodgetts
- CONTRIBUTE -
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