Mame game : boxingb : Boxing Bugs

Game infos

Description Boxing Bugs

Name boxingb

Manufacturer Cinematronics

Year 1981

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players 2P alt

Added to MAME .035b06

Romset size 33 KB

Romset file 14 files

Romset zip 26 B

Language English

Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)

Genre Shooter

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect

Driver emulation good

Driver color good

Driver sound imperfect

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
dial		0	255	100	5	yes
only_buttons						no

Display infos

type	rotate	flipx	width	height	refresh	pixclock	htotal	hbend	hbstart	vtotal	vbend	vbstart
vector	180	yes			38

Dipswitchs

Bonus Life
- 30,000
- 50,000
Coinage
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 2 Coins/3 Credits
- 4 Coins/3 Credits
Demo Sounds
- Off
- On
Free Play
- Off
- On
Lives
- 3
- 5
Service Mode
- Off
- On

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	prom.c14	32	07492cda	32df9148797c23f70db47b840139c40e046dd710	proms	140	good	no
arcade	prom.d14	32	9a05afbf	5d806a42424942ba5ef0b70a1d629315b37f931b	proms	120	good	no
arcade	prom.e14	32	29dbfb87	d8c40ab010b2ea30f29b2c443819e2b69f376c04	proms	100	good	no
arcade	prom.e8	32	791ec9e1	6f7fcce4aa3be9020595235568381588adaab88e	proms	180	good	no
arcade	prom.f14	256	9edbf536	036ad8a231284e05f44b1106d38fc0c7e041b6e8	proms	0	good	no
arcade	prom.j14	32	a481ca71	ce145d61686f600cc16b77febfd5c783bf8c13b0	proms	160	good	no
arcade	u1a	4096	d3115b0f	9448e7ac1cdb5c7e0739623151be230ab630c4ea	maincpu	0	good	no
arcade	u1b	4096	3a44268d	876ebe942ded787cfe357563a33d3e26a1483c5a	maincpu	1	good	no
arcade	u2a	4096	c97a9cbb	8bdeb9ee6b24c0a4554bbf4532a43481a0360019	maincpu	2000	good	no
arcade	u2b	4096	98d34ff5	6767a02a99a01712383300f9acb96cdeffbc9c69	maincpu	2001	good	no
arcade	u3a	4096	5bb3269b	a9dbc91b1455760f10bad0d2ccf540e040a00d4e	maincpu	4000	good	no
arcade	u3b	4096	85bf83ad	9229042e39c53fae56dc93f8996bf3a3fcd35cb8	maincpu	4001	good	no
arcade	u4a	4096	25b51799	46465fe62907ae66a0ce730581e4e9ba330d4369	maincpu	6000	good	no
arcade	u4b	4096	7f41de6a	d01dffad3cb6e76c535a034ea0277dce5801c5f1	maincpu	6001	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
Cinematronics CPU	maincpu	cpu	4980750
Samples	samples	audio
Speaker	mono	audio

Samples list

name
beetle
bell
bounce
bugdie
bugpusha
bugpushb
cannon
chirp
eggcrack
loudexpl
music
softexpl

0.35b6 [Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell, Neil Bradley]

Samples required

WIP:

- 0.125u4: Added button 3.

- 0.125u2: Removed button 3.

- 0.87u3: Aaron Giles added proper color support for Boxing Bugs and War of the Worlds. And added sound to Barrier, Star Hawk, War of the Worlds and Boxing Bugs (note that samples don't exist yet, but I'm working with Zonn Moore to get them for everything except Barrier). Added Samples sound (softexpl, loudexpl, chirp, eggcrack, bugpusha, bugpushb, bugdie, beetle, music, cannon, bounce and bell.wav).

- 0.35RC2: Mathis Rosenhauer added glove control and color to Boxing Bugs (seems to be wrong compared to Retrocade).

- 0.35b6: Aaron Giles, Zonn Moore, Jeff Mitchell and Neil Bradley added 'Boxing Bugs' (Cinematronics 1981). TODO: Fix controls.

- 26th April 1993: Dumped Boxing Bugs.

PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:

- Punch bugs with GLOVE for points

- Knock bombs off your wall with fireballs

- Use panic button to get out of hard spots. You can panic three times per game

- Every fourth round is a bonus round

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* Cinelator

* CINEMU

* Retrocade

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History

Arcade Video game published 38 years ago:

Boxing Bugs (c) 1981 Cinematronics.

This is kind of like a reverse of "Star Castle". In the center of the screen is a player-controlled rotating cannon, enclosed within an octagon. The cannon shoots fireballs from one end and has a boxing glove on an extension arm on the other end. The octagon is a protective wall for the cannon. Fireballs and the boxing glove pass over the wall to targets outside.
Bombs are randomly located outside the wall. Each bomb has a lite fuse. Three bugs are also randomly scattered outside the wall. The player's score, the number of cannons remaining, and the number of bugs that must be knocked out to complete the round are shown at the top of the screen.

- TECHNICAL -

Boxing Bugs ran on expanded version of the basic Cinematronics hardware platform. It added a ROM board and a color conversion board which allowed a color game to run on the otherwise monochrome Cinematronics vector platform. It used a Wells Gardner color X-Y monitor, and shipped in a rather unremarkable yellow cabinet that had plain 'Cinematronics' sideart painted on. The cabinet was similar to the one used for "Speed Freak", but not exactly the same.

Main CPU : CCPU (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Discrete circuitry

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 38.00 Hz
Palette colors : 32768

Players : 2
Control : Optical spinner
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Released in March 1981.

One of the last vector games Cinematronics made; very few numbers were produced and Cinematronics' days were numbered. They would make a brief comeback with "Dragon's Lair", but shortly afterwards be swallowed up by Leland Corporation and disappear into oblivion.

A prototype version of this game is known as "Outpost".

Richard Lewis holds the official record for this game with 2,026,022 points on April 15, 1983.

- SCORING -

Bugs or bombs struck by fireballs score 20 points.
Each bug knocked out with the glove scores 200 points.
Each flying bug scores 400 points per punch.

In addition to the above, during a bonus round, sleeping bugs that are blown up score 3000 points each.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

A rapid fire for the fireballs is activated by holding down the Fire button.

- STAFF -

Designed and programmed by: Jack Ritter
Additional program by: Scott Boden
Additional staff: Earl Stratton

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

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Boxing Bugs