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Tactician (set 1)

  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 Tactician (set 1)
Name tactcian
Manufacturer Konami (Sega license)
Year 1982
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .060
Romset size 41 KB
Romset file 14 files
Romset zip 24 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Shooter

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 no
Input tilt no
Input players 2
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 288 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade tact6301.003 256 a92796f2 0faab2dc0f868f4023a34ecfcf972d1c86a224a0 proms 20 good no
arcade tact6301.004 256 88b0b511 785eded1ba761cdb59db579eb8a786516ff58152 gfx2 0 good no
arcade tact6331.001 32 8f574815 4f84162db9d58b64742c67dc689eb665b9862fb3 proms 120 good no
arcade tact6331.002 32 b7ef83b7 5ffab25c2dc5be0856a43a93711d39c4aec6660b proms 0 good no
arcade tacticia.001 4096 99163e39 0a863f358a0bb065a9e2c41fcf4c20d370001dfe maincpu 0 good no
arcade tacticia.002 4096 6d3e8a69 2b4b3f2b7401064540f59070ef6742d1f44ca839 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade tacticia.003 4096 0f71d0fa cb55243853b8b33034af7a6438f9a7c85a774d71 maincpu 2000 good no
arcade tacticia.004 4096 5e15f3b3 01979f64b281a958f0a4effe2be21bf0e0a812bf maincpu 3000 good no
arcade tacticia.005 4096 76456106 580428f3c8cf442ee5c0f56db973644229aa8093 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade tacticia.006 4096 b33ca9ea 0299c1cb9a3c6368bbbacb60c6f5c6854035a7bf maincpu 5000 good no
arcade tacticia.c1 4096 5d3ee965 654c033291f3d139fb94f7aacbc2d1917856deb6 gfx1 0 good no
arcade tacticia.c2 4096 e8c59c4f e4881f2e2e08bb8af37cc679c4e2367528ac4804 gfx1 1000 good no
arcade tacticia.s1 4096 067f781b 640bc7813c239e497644e53a080d81366fcd04df tpsound 1000 good no
arcade tacticia.s2 4096 97d145a7 7aee9004287590a25e153d45b95dfaac89fbe996 tpsound 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A ay2 audio 1789772
RC Filter filter.1.2 audio
Speaker mono audio
Time Pilot Audio timeplt_audio audio
Z80 tpsound cpu 1789772

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.60 [Nicola Salmoria]


WIP:

- 0.140u2: Added 'Time Pilot Audio' sound.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (tactcan2) to (tactcian2).

- 0.123u1: Zsolt Vasvari removed color tables from Rally X driver. Added RESNET color computations where appropriate. Changed palettesize to 324 colors.

- 0.93: Added 6x RC_Filter.

- 0.79u1: Nicola Salmoria added starfield in Tactician. Changed palettesize to 96 colors.

- 0.61: MASH added clone Tactician (set 2). Changed parent description to 'Tactician (set 1)'.

- 0.60: Nicola Salmoria added Tactician ([Konami] (Sega license) 1982).

- 1st April 2002: Nicola Salmoria added Tactician to the Locomotion driver, and Chack'n and Stephane Humbert fixed the inputs in it.


LEVELS: 255 (endless)


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha


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History


Arcade Video game published 38 years ago:

Tactician (c) 1981 Sega.

At its core, Tactician might seem like another Space Invaders / Galaxian clone - you control a small ship at the bottom of the screen, which can actually move up or down a bit, instead of just left and right - but it has a pretty cool gimmick going for it.

At the beginning of each stage, you can "draw" a barrier by placing little dots around the playing field. After several seconds, enemies are released from their bases and begin to swarm the screen. They'll usually make quick work of the barrier, but if you shoot the red ball it'll explode and destroy anything near it. Quite a cool concept for something from 1981 - it's a shame that Tactician is so unknown, and that the idea was never expanded on in any other games. Some versions list the game as copyrighted by Sega, but they apparently only distributed the game in certain territories.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 1.789772 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.789772 Mhz), (6x) RC (@ 1.789772 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 288 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 96

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

- TRIVIA -

Tactician was released in December 1981 in Japan.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2811&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

cessna________________________100.890
sawys___________________________4.370
jgabmurer_______________________1.360