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Tornado Baseball / Ball Park

  1. Game infos
  2. Sound
  3. Driver
  4. Inputs
  5. Controls
  6. Display
  7. Configurations
  8. Dipswitchs
  9. Roms list
  10. Chips list
  11. Serie
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
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Game infos

Description Tornado Baseball / Ball Park
Name tornbase
Manufacturer Dave Nutting Associates / Midway / Taito
Year 1976
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .031
Romset size 6 KB
Romset file 3 files
Romset zip 4 B
Language English
Evaluation 10 to 20 (Horrible)
Genre Sports

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

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
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 260 224 59.541985 4992000 320 0 260 262 0 224

Configuration

name tag mask
Cabinet
Name Cocktail
Value 2
Default no
Name Upright/w One Hit Button
Value 0
Default no
Name Upright/w P1/P2 Hit Buttons
Value 1
Default yes

CAB
 3

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade tb.f 2048 215e070c 425915b37e5315f9216707de0850290145f69a30 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade tb.g 2048 b63dcdb3 bdaa0985bcb5257204ee10faa11a4e02a38b9ac5 maincpu 800 good no
arcade tb.h 2048 653f4797 feb4c802aa3e0c2a66823cd032496cca5742c883 maincpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8080 maincpu cpu 1996800
DISCRETE discrete audio
Speaker mono audio

Serie

Serie : Tornado Baseball
  1. Tornado Baseball / Ball Park (1976)
  2. Double Play (1977)
  3. Extra Inning / Ball Park II (1978)
  4. Extra Bases (1980)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.31 [Lee Taylor]


WIP:

- 0.117u1: Changed description to 'Tornado Baseball / Ball Park'.

- 0.111u4: Zsolt Vasvari and Derrick Renaud added partial sound emulation in Tornado Baseball. Changed 8080 CPU1 clock speed to 1996800 Hz. Added Discrete sound. Added dipswitches 'Enable SCORE Input', 'Cabinet' and 'Unused'.

- 0.94u3: Added new cpu1 rom ($800).

- 12th March 2005: Frank Palazzolo - I got Midway Tornado Baseball yesterday. The ROMs look intact, so hopefully this will help with the "No good dump known". The auction claimed that it didn't work when powered up, but I'm betting that's mostly due to the missing CPU chip.

- 0.37b1: Removed Invaders samples. Changed Double 8-way Joystick to 8-way.

- 0.36RC2: Marked cpu1 rom ($800) as bad. This rom fails the test. Added Invaders samples.

- 0.31: Lee Taylor added 'Tornado BaseBall' (Midway 1976).


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History


Arcade Video game published 43 years ago:

Tornado Baseball (c) 1976 Midway.

The game is a very simple game of baseball, implemented with stick figures. The game is very simple in terms of rules, and anybody can pick up on how to play fairly quickly. This is a two player only title, with both people playing for a single quarter. The pitching player selects his pitch with one joystick, while moving his outfielders with a second one. The batting player only has a single button (that is a 'swing' button). Both players use the same set of controls, so they must switch spots in front of the machine midway through each inning. You get a four inning game for one quarter, although that number can be adjusted by the game operator.

- TECHNICAL -

Tornado Baseball came in a two tone brown upright cabinet, heavily decorated with sticker sideart of baseball players in action. The cabinet design dates itself by its straight up and down design, without a curve to be seen anywhere on the machine. The field is displayed using an open frame monitor, mirror, and a blacklight to make it seem as though the action is taking place on a picture of a baseball field that is housed inside the cabinet.

Game ID : 605

Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 1.9968 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Discrete

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick (pitching team), joystick 2-way (the outfielders)
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Released in July 1976. Tornado Baseball is one of the first arcade baseball titles to try and put a lot of players on the field at once.

The technique of using mirrored-in graphics in the game was the work of Dave Nutting. The game was designed for Midway by Dave Nutting Associates.

A Tornado Baseball cabinet can be seen in the 2004 film "Anchorman - The Legend of Ron Burgundy" starring Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, and Christina Applegate

- SERIES -

1. Tornado Baseball (1976)
2. Extra Inning (1978)
3. Extra Bases (1980)

- STAFF -

Hardware effects: Dave Nutting

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Bally Astrocade

- CONTRIBUTE -

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