0.36b3 [Aaron Giles]
Artwork available
WIP:
- 0.172: SOUNDCPU rom loading cleanups [Osso].
- 0.153: Corrected 'Off the Wall (2/3-player upright)' rom names and locations and also added a dump of one of the GAL's (a GAL16V8A-25LP) on the boardset which was the only one without the security fuse blown [Kevin Eshbach].
- 0.150: Aaron Giles added 2k offtwall-eeprom.bin EEPROM. This fixed service mode lost its color.
- 0.149u1: Added 'Atari JSA II Sound Board' sound.
- 0.147u2: Initial round of atarigen cleanup/modernization [Aaron Giles].
- 0.146: hap fixed atarivc_eof tag and shortened playfield_upper(15 chars) tag to playfield_up.
- 0.139u3: Aaron Giles moved the old hard-coded EEPROM data out into a file in Off the Wall.
- 0.139u1: Aaron Giles changed atarigen_state to be a base class from which all the related Atari drivers derive their state from.
- 0.135u4: Some more Atari driver shuffling [Aaron Giles]: Added atarigen_init() function which allocates all timers and registers for save states. Updated all drivers to call it. Converted some drivers to use device timers.
- 0.135u3: Aaron Giles converted atari drivers over to using driver_data for the most part. Some shared systems still exist with globals, but this tackles the atarigen module and the variables local to each driver.
- 0.133u1: Renamed (offtwalc) to (offtwallc).
- 25th July 2008: 3D ARCADE - New 3D cabinet model for Atari's Off the Wall from btribble.
- 0.122u4: Changed M6502 CPU2 clock speed to 1789772 Hz and YM2151 to 3579545 Hz.
- 0.114u2: Aaron Giles and Couriersud added more accurate video timing to most of the Atari 68000-era games. The parameters are from published specs, not derived. The board uses a VAD chip to generate video signals. Changed VSync to 59.922743 Hz.
- 0.114: Couriersud added general save state support to the atarijsa and atarigen modules.
- 26th August 2006: Mr. Do - Added Off the Wall bezel from MAME.net and Mean Arena. Some of these decent stuff are so-so; some are REALLY good.
- 0.97u4: David Haywood fixed Atari Audio Board II (sndhrdw\atarijsa.c) for games without OKI6295 sound.
- 0.95u3: Removed OKI6295 sound (because of the 0.93 Sound System update).
- 0.93: Added OKI6295 (9037Hz) sound.
- 0.37b15: Changed M6502 CPU2 clock speed to 1789500 and YM2151 to 3579000 Hz.
- 0.36RC1: Changed 68000 CPU1 clock speed to 7159090 Hz, M6502 CPU2 to 1789772 Hz and YM-2151 to 3579545 Hz.
- 0.36b5: Changed input to Dial. Added 'Controls' dipswitch.
- 6th September 1999: Aaron Giles sent in a huge Bally/Sente driver, with Chicken Shift, Gimme a Break, Goalie Hhost, Hat Trick, Mini Golf, Night Stocker, Off the Wall, Rescue Raider, Sente Diagnostics Cartridge, Snacks'n Jaxson, Stocker, Street Football, Toggle and Trivial Pursuit. There are still more games running on this hardware.
- 0.36b3: Aaron Giles added 'Off the Wall (2/3-player upright)' (Atari Games 1991) and clone (2-player cocktail).
- 8th August 1999: Aaron Giles sent in a driver for Off the Wall.
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Clean Sweep
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Breakout
Super Breakout
T.T. Block
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Bomb Bee
Cutie Q
Field Goal
Monkey Magic
Straight Flush
Zun Zun Block
Time Attacker
Cluster Buster (DECO Cassette)
Wall Crash
Cannon Ball (Pac-Man Hardware)
Flying Ball (DECO Cassette)
Wink
Arkanoid
Tournament Arkanoid
Arkanoid - Revenge of DOH
Arkanoid Returns
Gigas
Gigas Mark II
Omega
Riddle of Pythagoras
Block Gal
Free Kick
Super Free Kick
Goindol
Mahjong Block Jongbou
Quester
Reaktor
Drop Rock Hora Hora (Tourvision PCE bootleg)
Thunder & Lightning
Block Carnival / Thunder & Lightning 2
Block Block
Ghox
Off the Wall
Twin Squash
Brick Zone
Play Girls
Peek-a-Boo!
Street Games (Brick Buster)
Street Games II (Brick Buster)
Blocken
Wiggie Waggie
Cuby Bop
Zip & Zap
Bal Cube
Domino Block
Pop 'n Bounce
Puchi Carat
Puzzle Break
VS Block Breaker
Bestri
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Galaxy Games StarPak 3 (Battle Bricks)
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Gunbarich
Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:
Off The Wall (c) 1991 Atari Games Corp.
Off the Wall is an arcade game produced by Atari and released in North America in 1991. A modern remake of Breakout, this game introduces many new gameplay features to the bat-and-ball genre, and it incorporates some elements from Pong as well. It supports up to three players simultaneously (though most cabinets only support two), and the game's graphics include many backgrounds modeled after modern abstract art.
The objective of Off the Wall is to score as many points as possible by destroying square blocks in a never-ending series of levels. The player controls a paddle using an analog knob or a joystick (depending on the machine configuration). The paddle moves along one edge of the playfield, and a ball flies around the playfield and bounces off the walls and the paddle. When a ball hits a block, the block disappears (unless it is indestructible). A square exit is placed on the screen, and directing the ball into this exit causes all remaining blocks on the screen to self-destruct, awarding bonus points and advancing the player(s) to the next level.
The ball occasionally splits in two (in multiplayer games, three balls may be on the screen at once), and the player can put spin on the ball, causing it to move in a curved trajectory. The player loses a life when the last ball on the screen moves past the player's paddle, though in some circumstances, the game gives the player a second chance. The game is over when the player has lost all of his or her lives.
As levels progress, the game introduces new features that make the game more complex and challenging. These features include blocks that move randomly or in circles, various powerups, indestructible blocks and bombs, blocks that parachute or fly in to replace destroyed blocks, objects that change the ball's speed and trajectory, and guns that can shrink the players' paddles. Depending on the number of players in the game, some levels may be skipped due to the exit being along one player's edge of the playfield. In multiplayer games, a bonus round occurs periodically where players compete directly against one another in an exact clone of Pong. The winning player earns an extra life.
- TECHNICAL -
Game ID : 136090
Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 7.15909 Mhz), MOS Technology 6502 (@ 1.7895 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.579 Mhz)
Players : 3
Control : dial
Buttons : 4
- TRIVIA -
Off The Wall was released in October 1991 as a conversion kit. 500 kits where produced in the USA and 250 in Ireland.
The selling price was $895 at its time of release.
If a ball is kept in play long enough, the speed meter will go up to 'Hyper Speed', 'Ludicrous Speed', and 'They've Gone Plaid!' - all references to Mel Brooks' Star Wars parody, 'Spaceballs'.
- STAFF -
Team Leader : John Ray (JMR?)
Music : John Paul (JFP)
SFX : Brad Fuller (BAF)
Others from highscore table : (RI ), (GAM), (ES ), Kelly Turner (KFT), Norm Avellar (NLA), (JMM), Kris Moser (KEM), (GFM), Sam Comstock (SWC), (PAT), Tim Hubberstey (TJH)
- PORTS -
* CONSOLES:
Nec PC-Engine (unreleased prototype)
Sega Game Gear (unreleased prototype)
- CONTRIBUTE -
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