0.36b16 [Nicola Salmoria]
0.36b15 [Juergen Buchmueller]
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WIP:
- 0.154: Changed 'Gee Bee Custom' to 'Gee Bee Audio Custom'.
- 12th December 2012: Mr. Do - I took a bunch of pictures at CA Extreme last year. One of the games that stuck out on me was Gee Bee. The actually overlay is different than what is in MAME today. I verified by checking a few other cabinets around the internet. Looks a lot cooler now. I'll submit it later to update the internal MAME version, with some slight alterations (since there are diagonal shapes in it).
- 0.144u4: hap fixed Gee Bee freeze when starting the game.
- 0.141u3: Changed description to 'Gee Bee (Japan)' and clones (F.lli Bertolino license) to 'Gee Bee (Europe)' and (Gremlin) to 'Gee Bee (US)'.
- 0.129u4: Changed 'Custom' sound to 'Gee Bee Custom'.
- 0.127u7: Couriersud fixed missing middle swinging gate in Gee Bee and clones.
- 0.127u6: Stephane Humbert reworked Gee Bee INPUT_PORTS definitions by using conditional dipswitches. Added INPUT_PORTS definition for clone Gee Bee (F.lli Bertolino license), this game has specific "Replay" settings (this fixed unable to coin - always coin lockout). Replaced 'Lives/Bonus Life' dipswitch with 'Lives' and 'Replay'.
- 0.127u5: David Haywood fixed copy/paste error from 0.126u3 in clone Gee Bee (Gremlin) romset.
- 0.126u3: Changed region cpu1 ($3000) to gfx1 ($0). Replaced rom geebeeg.3a in clone Gee Bee (Gremlin) with geebeeg.3 from Gee Bee (Namco).
- 0.123u2: Changed palettesize to 8 colors.
- 0.122u5: Corrado Tomaselli added clone Gee Bee (F.lli Bertolino license).
- 17th December 2008: f205v and Corrado Tomaselli dumped Gee Bee (F.lli Bertolino license).
- 0.116u4: Atari Ace fixed palette regression in Gee Bee.
- 0.112u3: David Haywood fixed regression in Gee Bee.
- 0.78u1: Added 2nd Player and fixed 'Lives/Bonus Life' dipswitch.
- 0.36b16: Nicola Salmoria added 'Gee Bee' (Namco 1978). Changed 8080 CPU clock speed to 2048000 Hz and palettesize to 15 colors. Replaced Stick input with paddle. Changed 'Gee Bee' to clone 'Gee Bee (Gremlin)'. Renamed (geebee) to (geebeeg).
- 28th January 2000: Juergen Buchmueller added color overlay simulation to the Gee Bee driver.
- 23rd January 2000: Nicola Salmoria added an original version of Gee Bee to the GeeBee driver.
- 21st January 2000: Juergen Buchmueller fixed some problems in Gee Bee.
- 0.36b15: Juergen Buchmueller added 'Gee Bee' ([Namco] (Gremlin license) 1979).
- 19th January 2000: Juergen Buchmueller sent in a driver for Gee Bee and Marco Cassili fixed the dipswitches.
LEVELS: 1 (endless)
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Arcade Video game published 41 years ago:
Gee Bee (c) 1978 Namco.
A Pinball-flavored ball-and-paddle game.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 2.048 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Custom (@ 2.048 Mhz)
Players : 2
Control : paddle
Buttons : 1
- TRIVIA -
Gee Bee was released in October 1978. It was the very first video game released by Namco.
About Namco : Founded in 1955 in Tokyo, Namco means 'Nakamura Manufacturing Co.'. Before video games, Namco was originally a 'rocking-horse rides' manufacturer.
Joining Namco, Toru wanted to design pinball games. Gee Bee, "Cutie Q" and "Bomb Bee" were his arcade game hybrids. Toru would achieve later, greater fame by designing "Pac-Man".
- SCORING -
Pop Bumpers : 10 or 100 points.
Spinner : 10 or 100 points.
1st row of drops : 20 points.
2nd row of drops : 50 points.
3rd row of drops : 100 points.
NAMCO lights : 50 points.
Adjustments to scoring :
Finishing the side drop target banks puts in a barrier to the side drain and increases the pop bumper points on the side cleared.
Finishing the top drop targets increases the spinner award.
Lighting all NAMCO lights increases bonus multiplier to 2X.
- SERIES -
1. Gee Bee (1978)
2. Bomb Bee (1979)
3. Cutie Q (1979)
- STAFF -
Designed by : Toru Iwatani
- CONTRIBUTE -
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