0.37b6 [Brad Oliver]
0.34b8 [Testdriver]
WIP:
- 0.143u3: Changed 'Unknown' dipswitch to 'Unused'.
- 10th August 2010: Smitdogg - Kold666 sent me the Megablast chip (ID C11-15) for decapping.
- 8th July 2010: Smitdogg - Kold666 got and is sending me the C-Chip from Mega Blast.
- 0.136u1: D. Beneke, hap, Smitdogg and Dumping Union added clone Mega Blast (US). Renamed (megab) to (megablst) and (megabj) to (megablstj).
- 6th January 2010: Smitdogg - We got the US version of Taito's Mega Blast. Credits so far: D. Beneke, hap, Smitdogg and The Dumping Union.
- 0.106u12: MASH added plds ($0, 200, 400, 600, 800, a00 - pal16l8b-b89-01.ic8, pal16l8b-b89-02.ic28, pal16l8b-b89-03.bin, palce16v8-b89-04.ic27, pal16l8b-c11-13.ic13 and pal16l8b-c11-14.ic23) to Mega Blast (World).
- 0.37b14: Added 'Cabinet' dipswitch.
- 0.37b6: Brad Oliver added 'Mega Blast (World)' (Taito 1989) and clone (Japan).
- 28th July 2000: Brad Oliver fixed Mega Blast in the Taito F2 driver.
- 0.37b5: Added clone (Testdriver) Mega Blast (Japan).
- 0.34b8: Brad Oliver added (Testdriver) Mega Blade.
- 14th January 1998: CaBBe dumped Mega Blast (World).
STORY:
- At the end of the 21st century war and hunger disappear on the earth, and humankind go on very well. On such occassion, it occurred to humankind that mysterious disappearance of woman rise in waves in many places in the world. The cause is found by the investigation of a secretly organized "Defending-The-Earth-From-The-Outside-Organization". That is, a strange contagious disease prevails throughout a planet "Zancs" in a dark nebula, and woman's generative power is lost, then, women on the earth were abducted as substitutes for having their descendants. Dowson and Bogey, the choice out of the "Defending-The-Earth-From-The-Outside-Organization" start on a journey to the space by using "Megablast" which is a space fighter equipped with all available products of the earth's scientific power in order to rescue the earth women as well as lovable "Sindy" who is also abducted together with the other women.
LEVELS: 8
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* FB Alpha
* Raine
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Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:
Megablast (c) 1989 Taito Corp.
At the end of the 21st century, war and hunger disappear on the earth, and humankind go on very well. On such occasion, it occurred to humankind that mysterious disappearances of women rise in waves in many places in the world. The cause is found by the investigation of a secretly organized 'Defending-the-earth-from-the-outside-organization'. That is, a strange contagious disease prevails throughout a planet 'Zancs' in a dark nebula, and women's generative power is lost, then, women on the earth were abducted as substitutes for having their descendants. Downson and Bogey, the choice out of the 'Defending-the-earth-from-the-outside-organization'. start on a journey to the space by using 'Megablast' which is a space fighter equipped with all available products of the earth's scientific power in order to rescue the earth women as well as lovable 'Sindy' who is also abducted together with the other earth women.
- TECHNICAL -
Runs on the "Taito F2 System" hardware.
Prom Stickers: C11
Players: 2
Control: 8-way joystick
Buttons: 1
- TRIVIA -
Megablast was released in October 1989.
As "Master of Weapon", Megablast was very unpopular. The main reason is the game was worse than other shoot'em ups of this period. So, most boards were withdraw.
According to a former taito developer, this game was supposed to be a four-way button game. Prototypes versions exist. Also, the ending would originaly be a battle between players, but they were not able to completed this function.
Only one soundtrack include the game's sounds (composed by Zuntata): "Taito Retro collection 5" (KDSD-00553,00554) on May 30, 2012.
- STAFF -
Sound composer: Yasuhisa Watanabe
- PORTS -
* CONSOLES:
[JP] Sony PS2 (mar.29, 2007) "Taito Memories II Gekan [Model SLPM-66713]"
- CONTRIBUTE -
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