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The Pit

  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 The Pit
Name thepit
Manufacturer Zilec Electronics
Year 1982
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .105u3
Romset size 27 KB
Romset file 9 files
Romset zip 13 B
Language English
Genre Maze

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 1

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 90 no 256 224 60.606061 6144000 384 0 256 264 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 82s123.ic4 32 a758b567 d188c90dba10fe3abaae92488786b555b35218c5 proms 0 good no
arcade pit1.bin 4096 71affecc e64cb2f8d546f5d44dc10a4178f3d211882c45a9 maincpu 0 good no
arcade pit2.bin 4096 894063cd 772ff81cf44d21981f9768f017af5cb81ff57be3 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade pit3.bin 4096 1b488543 8991c6424f008ddd15edac953635aecdba4ea696 maincpu 2000 good no
arcade pit4.bin 4096 e941e848 1dd9ded69121d28b674209abe1efd60afde6926d maincpu 3000 good no
arcade pit5.bin 4096 e0643c95 bb5133784b2b6a5c217d9ea42641daba2a797fff maincpu 4000 good no
arcade pit6.bin 2048 1b79dfb6 ba78b035a91a67732414ba327640fb771d4323c5 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade pit7.bin 2048 d901b353 4a35dd857ca352e0260361376fe666af4b3315af gfx1 1000 good no
arcade pit8.bin 2048 69502afc 9baf094baab8325af659879cfb6984eeca0d94bd gfx1 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A ay2 audio 1536000
Speaker mono audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 2500000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.141u3 [f205v, Brian Troha]

0.104 [Tomasz Slanina, Guru]

0.31 [Zsolt Vasvari]


WIP:

- 0.149u1: Added DIP locations to 'The Pit' [Brian Troha]. Added 'Diagnostic Tests' dipswitch.

- 0.148u1: hap changed description of clones (US, set 1) to 'The Pit (US set 1)' and (US, set 2) to 'The Pit (US set 2)'.

- 0.141u4: Siftware added clone The Pit (US, set 2). Fixed rom names. Changed description of clone (US) to 'The Pit (US, set 1)'. Renamed (thepitu) to (thepitu1).

- 0.141u3: hap fixed parent/clone relationship in ThePit driver. Changed clone (bootleg) to parent 'The Pit', 'The Pit' to clone 'The Pit (Japan)' and (Centuri) to 'The Pit (US)'. Renamed (thepit) to (thepitj), (thepitb) to (thepit) and (thepitc) to (thepitu).

- 0.136u4: Andrew Welburn and David Haywood added clone The Pit (bootleg on Moon Quasar hardware).

- 2nd March 2010: Smitdogg - Andrew Welburn dumped a bootleg of The Pit running on Moon Quasar(?) hardware.

- 0.106u3: Fixed 'Coinage' dipswitch.

- 0.105u3: Brian Troha added clone The Pit (Bootleg).

- 20th April 2006: f205v dumped The Pit (Bootleg).

- 0.104: Tomasz Slanina and Guru added 'The Pit' (Taito 1982). Changed 'The Pit' to clone 'The Pit (Centuri)'. Renamed (thepit) to (thepitc).

- 27th January 2006: Tomasz Slanina - Added Taito version of The Pit (dumped by Guru). Gfx and gameplay are a bit different.

- 18th February 2005: Guru - The Pit (?) arrived from Japan.

- 12th July 2004: 3D ARCADE - New 3D cabinet model for The Pit from Pariah.

- 0.34b1: Added 2nd AY-8910 (1536000 Hz) sound.

- 0.33b7: Added color rom ($20).

- 0.31: Zsolt Vasvari added 'The Pit' (Centuri 1982).


PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:

- The object of this game is to dig down to the bottom pit and collect at least one large jewel and then return to ship thru upper pit.


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha


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History


Arcade Video game published 37 years ago:

The Pit (c) 1982 Zilec Electronics.

The player's avatar (described as "The Astronaut-Explorer" by the game manual) lands in a spaceship and must dig their way into a series of underground tunnels. While there, they must avoid being crushed by rocks, eaten by monsters, impaled by arrows, or melted in a vat of acid. Instead of a traditional timer, is a tank shooting away a mountain near the player's spaceship. After collecting the treasure, the only route back to the spaceship is by crossing "The Pit", which is a room with a sliding retractable floor underneath containing a monster that will devour the player and acid which will also kill.

The player receives 100 points for shooting each enemy, 1000 points for each crystal collected, 2,000 points for collecting large gems, and 1,000 points for crossing "The Pit" safely and reboarding the ship. There is a 10,000 point bonus for collecting all 3 large gems or all 4 small gems, and a 15,000 point bonus for collecting all 7 gems.

- TECHNICAL -

CPU on main board:
2x MK3880N-Z80CPU
1x AY-3-8910
1x oscillator 18.000Hz

on lower board:
1x oscillator 18432Hz

ROMs on main board:
1x AM2732 (1)
4x HN462732G (2,3,4,5)
1x MK2716J (6)
1x MMI6331

on lower board:
2x MK2716J (7,8)
Note 1x 22x2 edge connector
1x trimmer (volume)
2x 4 switches dip

- TRIVIA -

The Pit was released in April 1982.

The tank is labeled "Zilec" in the U.K. and U.S. versions, and "Taito" in the Japanese version. Other noticeable differences in the Japanese version include: a different color palette, boulders disappear when dislodged, spikes do not always fall from the roof of the large gem room, and the monster is absent from the acid pit.

- PORTS -

* COMPUTERS:
Commodore C64 (1983)

* OTHERS:
LSI Portable game (1982, "Zackman" - Bandai Elec. licensed by AW Zilec Electronics, Ltd.)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

didyeah________________________15.000
hulkiii_________________________8.000