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Colony 7 (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 Colony 7 (set 1)
Name colony7
Manufacturer Taito
Year 1981
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .030
Romset size 25 KB
Romset file 11 files
Romset zip 14 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
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 yes
Input players 1
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 270 no 292 240 60.096154 8000000 512 12 304 260 7 247

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade cs01.bin 4096 1bc97436 326692de3491925bbeea9b0e880d9133f0e6440c maincpu f000 good no
arcade cs02.bin 4096 c60b08cb 8cf91a2c2c04199b2870bb11e10fa6ffef5b877f maincpu e000 good no
arcade cs03.bin 4096 7ee75ae5 1d268d83c2b0c7897d9e783f5da4e1d892709ba4 maincpu d000 good no
arcade cs04.bin 2048 d740faee aad164e72ebb0de18487c5397ea33d300cf93423 maincpu 10800 good no
arcade cs05.bin 2048 59e406a8 b64081ca83b6f57ac8fb71b1f8618083f19b99de maincpu 11800 good no
arcade cs06.bin 2048 318b95af cb276ef440436f6000a2d20252f3197a67965167 maincpu 10000 good no
arcade cs07.bin 2048 0b23638b b577c0cefa3ea2df436ed0fa1efa8ecd04ff78b0 maincpu 11000 good no
arcade cs08.bin 2048 3bfde87a f5047927833be97324c861aa93a8e95b457058c4 maincpu 12000 good no
arcade cs10.bin 512 25de5d85 826f78c2fe847f594d261c280dd10b9e776bf4fd proms 0 good no
arcade cs11.bin 2048 6032293c dd2c6afc1149a879d49e93d1a2fa8e1f6d0b043b soundcpu f800 good no
arcade decoder.3 512 c3f45f70 d19036cbc46b130548873597b44b8b70758f25c4 proms 200 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M6808 soundcpu cpu 3579545
M6809 maincpu cpu 1000000
MC1408 dac audio
Speaker speaker audio

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.30 [Mike Balfour]


WIP:

- 0.154: Changed visible area to 240x292.

- 0.107u2: Removed 2nd coin slot.

- 0.95u3: Changed visible area to 239x294.

- 0.92: Highwayman added proms ($0, 200 - video inversion for cocktail table).

- 0.84u6: Aaron Giles fixed Colony 7 dipswitches. Added dipswitches 'Lives', 'Bonus At' and 2x 'Unknown'.

- 0.33b7: Changed description to 'Colony 7 (set 1)' and clone (Alternate) to 'Colony 7 (set 2)'.

- 0.30: Mike Balfour added 'Colony 7' (Taito 1981) and clone (Alternate). Colony 7 is *extremely* similar to Defender in hardware.

- 17th November 1997: Dumped Colony 7 (set 2).


PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:

- Defend Colony 7 from enemies. Your arsenal consists of: * MAIN WEAPONRY triggered by fire button to explode at crosshair. Aim with joystick. * MEGABLASTER wide coverage weapon powered by pulsating fuel cells in the colony. Used fuel cells turn blue. Enemy fire may destroy cells. * The ERADICATOR destroys all enemies and bombs on the screen. It waits on the pad until launched.

- Enemy spacecraft attack in squadrons of 30 fighters. Scouts call more fighters until they are destroyed.

- Bonus points are awareded for buildings still in the colony when the last ship in each squadron is destroyed.

- A turn ends when both of the cannons are blown up or all of the colony is destroyed by the enemies.


Recommended Games (Defence):

The End

Missile Command

Arcade Classics (Missile Command II)

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Radar Scope

Space Zap

Speak & Rescue

Colony 7

Dark Warrior

Demoneye-X

Future Flash

Pleiads

Satan's Hollow

Satan of Saturn

Space Tactics

War of the Worlds

Liberator

Orbitron

Tactician

Raiders

Senjyo

Cosmoswat

Planet Probe

Repulse

D-Con

Alligator Hunt

History


Arcade Video game published 38 years ago:

Colony 7 (c) 1981 Taito.

The player must defend Colony 7 from alien attack by either using the main weapons that fire shots, a Mega-Blaster which knocks out targets near the detonation zone, or with the Eradicator that acts as a smartbomb which clears the entire screen. There is an ion shield which provides temporary safety for the colony below, but can be blasted away by alien fire.

Colony 7 is in many ways a combination of two of the most popular shoot 'em up games of the time, containing elements of both Tehkan's Pleiads and Atari's Missile Command. The main innovation of Colony 7 was the extended weaponry arsenal. This gave the player the choice to change between several different weapons, with the the Eradicator needing to be purchased separately as "extended weaponry".

- TECHNICAL -

Prom Stickers : CS01-CS11

Main CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 1 Mhz)
Sound CPU : M6808 (@ 894.75 Khz)
Sound Chips : DAC

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3
=> [1] FIRE, [2] MEGABLASTER, [3] ERADICATOR

- TRIVIA -

Colony 7 was released in May 1981.

- SCORING -

Fighter : 25-250 points
Scout : 100 points
Bummer : 100-1000 points
Advisor : 500-5000 points

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* The Megablaster destroys enemies in a wide area. It consumes powercells. Used powercells turn blue. Enemies can destroy powercells.

* The Eradicator destroys all enemies and bombs on screen.

* Scouts call in more fighters until they are destroyed.

* Bonus points are given for buildings left when the last enemy in each squadron is destroyed.

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[EU] Microsoft XBOX (oct.14, 2005) "Taito Legends"
[EU] Sony PS2 (oct.14, 2005) "Taito Legends [Model SLES-53438]"
[US] Microsoft XBOX (oct.25, 2005) "Taito Legends"
[US] Sony PS2 (oct.25, 2005) "Taito Legends [Model SLUS-21122]"
[KO] Sony PS2 (jul.18, 2006) "Taito Legends [Model SLKA-15056]"
[US] Atari 2600 (2007) "Homebrew"

* COMPUTERS:
[EU] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (oct.14, 2005) "Taito Legends"
[US] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (nov.10, 2005) "Taito Legends"

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

didyeah________________________40.125
hulkiii________________________10.500