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Pairs (V1.2, 09/30/94)

  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. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description Pairs (V1.2, 09/30/94)
Name pairs
Manufacturer Strata/Incredible Technologies
Year 1994
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .078
Romset size 5.88 MB
Romset file 13 files
Romset zip 4 B
Language English
Mature This game is for adults only
Genre Puzzle

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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 yes
Input tilt no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 384 240 60.10699 8000000 508 0 384 262 0 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade ensoniq.2m 2097152 9fdc4825 71e5255c66d9010be7e6f27916b605441fc53839 ensoniq.0 0 good no
arcade pair0_u83_x_v1.2.u83 131072 a9c761d8 2618c9c3f336cf30f760fd88f12c09985cfd4ee7 user1 0 good no
arcade pair1_u88_x_v1.2.u88 131072 5141eb86 3bb10d588e6334a33e5c2c468651699e84f46cdc user1 1 good no
arcade pairsnd_u17_v1.u17 131072 7a514cfd ef5bc74c9560d2c058298051070fa748e58f07e1 soundcpu 10000 good no
arcade pairx_grom0_v1.grom0 524288 baf1c2dd 4de50001bce294ea5eea581cee9ca5a966701176 gfx1 0 good no
arcade pairx_grom10_v1.grom10 524288 3f52f50d abb7ec8fa1af0876dacfe04d76fbc8fc18a2b610 gfx1 2 good no
arcade pairx_grom11_v1.grom11 262144 1e5f2523 c6c362bc0bb303e271176ce8c2a49990be1834cd gfx1 200002 good no
arcade pairx_grom15_v1.grom15 524288 fd38aa36 7c65b2a42bb45b81b841792c475ea391c03a4eb2 gfx1 3 good no
arcade pairx_grom16_v1.grom16 262144 b2975259 aa82f8e855f2ebf1d7178a46f2b515d7c9a26299 gfx1 200003 good no
arcade pairx_grom1_v1.grom1 262144 b0bd7008 29cb334e9af73f7aef4bf55eae79d8cc05412164 gfx1 200000 good no
arcade pairx_grom5_v1.grom5 524288 30e993f3 fe32aabacbe9d6d9419410faafe048c01988ac78 gfx1 1 good no
arcade pairx_grom6_v1.grom6 262144 f7b20a47 5a68add24b0f9cfb56b3e7aedc28382c8ead81a1 gfx1 200001 good no
arcade srom0.bin 524288 19a857f9 2515b4c127191d52d3b5a72477384847d8cabad3 ensoniq.2 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
ES5506 ensoniq audio 16000000
M68000 maincpu cpu 12000000
M6809 soundcpu cpu 2000000
Speaker mono audio

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.78 [Taucher]

0.37b13 [Aaron Giles]


WIP:

- 0.177: Restore unique sound rom in Pairs due cut-n-paste overwrite and not paying attention [Brian Troha].

- 0.176: Brian Troha corrected rom names in the Pairs sets. Added srom0 from clone (09/07/94) to parent set Pairs (V1.2, 09/30/94). Changed description of clone (09/07/94) to 'Pairs (V1, 09/07/94)'. Fixed rom names.

- 0.148u5: hap changed manufacturer of clones Hot Memory to 'Incredible Technologies (Tuning license)'.

- 0.146u5: Changed description of clones (V1.1, Germany) to 'Hot Memory (V1.1, Germany, 11/30/94)' and (V1.2, Germany) to 'Hot Memory (V1.2, Germany, 12/28/94)'.

- 0.141u3: Smitdogg and The Dumping Union added clone Hot Memory (V1.1, Germany).

- 0.127u2: Fixed rom names.

- 0.126u4: Guru added README for Pairs.

- 0.96u3: David Haywood added clone Hot Memory (V1.2, Germany).

- 7th April 2005: Guru - Hot Memory (Tuning/IT 1994) arrived, purchased from two private sellers by Randy.

- 22nd February 2005: Dumping Project - Randy finalized an agreement to purchase from a Swedish seller a 'Pairs' variant called 'Hot Memory'.

- 0.78: Taucher added Pairs (V1.2, 09/30/94). Renamed (pairs) to (pairsa).

- 23rd December 2003: Taucher added Pairs v1.2 to the itech32 driver.

- 0.67: Changed description to 'Pairs (09/07/94)'.

- 0.60: Added 'Video Sync' dipswitch.

- 0.53: Added missing 2MB sound1 rom.

- 0.37b13: Aaron Giles added 'Pairs' (Strata/Incredible Technologies 1994).

- 25th February 2001: Aaron Giles added Pairs to the Incredible Technologies driver.


LEVELS: 44


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History


Arcade Video game published 25 years ago:

Pairs - Featuring The Giffy Girls (c) 1994 Strata Group, Incorporated.

This is the classic memory game played with a deck of cards laid out in a 6x10 grid. You begin by selecting a card, it turns over, and then you try to select another card that matches. If both of your cards match, then they are both taken away (and a bit of the picture is revealed underneath them). If they don't match, then they are flipped back over and you must try again. The number of chances you have is kept track of with hearts at the top of the screen, you get an extra heart each time you guess correctly, and you lose a heart each time you guess incorrectly. Matching pairs also adds time to the timer. If you lose all of your hearts or the timer runs out then it is game over.

At the start of each stage (and upon every continue) a few cards are set face-up for your advantage. Also, each stage features two joker cards (represented by the current girl's head-shot). When a joker card is selected, the next card selected removes all remaining cards with the same value.

During game-play, the background image is shown in gray-scale and any nipples or pubic hair shown in the image is covered over with a band-aid sprite. Once the stage is completed, these bandages disappear and the image is shown in full-color. Once all of a girl's stages are completed, the player is shown all of the backgrounds for that girl.

The game has 8 different women to choose from, and there are four stages for each woman (the pictures get naughtier at each stage). Once all 32 of those stages are completed, you get to play several bonus stages that have pictures of several women together. This is a really fun game, despite its obvious adult trappings.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz), M6809 (@ 2 Mhz)
Sound Chips : ES5506 (@ 16 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Developed by Incredible Technologies, Inc.

This game was released in September 1994 as a conversion kit, and can be found in a wide variety of different arcade cabinets. It will most often be found in bartop or converted cocktail units, due to the fact that this game was designed for bars, and bars prefer those form factors.

- UPDATES -

Revision 1 :
* Software version : 09-07-1994

Revision 2 :
* Software version : V1.2 09-30-1994

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High scores

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