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Summary:

Conversion - JAMMA
Players - 1 or 2 co-op
Type - Side Scrolling Shooting
Stages - 6
Monitor - Raster, Standard Res, Horizontal
Sound - On board
Inputs - start, 8-way Joystick, 2 buttons
Year - 1990
Made by - American Technos

Description:

You are one of three street fighters who must destroy Martha Splatterhead, a former member of your team who was captured by the other street gangs and was turned into a cyborg. The members of your team include Berserker (blue) who has equal strength and speed, Bullova (yellow) who has high strength but slow speed, and Blitz (red) who has low strength but fast speed. You must fight your way through six different levels that include a unique boss. Level one is set on a street corner where you must fight off a motorcycle gang before facing Fats, a board wielding fat man. Level two is set at an amusement park where you must defeat an evil clowns before facing Salamander, a fire-eater with a torch. Level three is set at a roller rink where you must fight off a roller hockey gang before facing Thrash, a hammer wielding punk. Level four is set on at a baseball stadium where you must defeat a team of barbaric Indians before facing Tomahawk, a chief with a tomahawk. Level five is set in a security building where you must fight off the evil guards before facing Swastika, a cyborg general. Level six is set on a pier where you must defeat all of the previous bosses again before facing Martha Splatterhead and several clones (one for each additional player).

Technical:

Combatribes PCB
This game is designed to run with two or three players. Player 1 and 2 run through the standard JAMMA connections and the optional Player 3 runs off of a 9-pin kick harness. The pinout of the kick harness is: 1- Right 2-Left 3-Up 4-Down 5-Punch 6-Kick 7-Not Used 8-Start and 9-Ground. Player three is made available from setting switch 8 of SW2 to on. There is no dip switch setting for free play.

About My Game:

I bought this game in October of 2005 from eBay. This is the first game board I bought to try installing in my JAMMA cabinet. I put it in my Buster Bros cabinet that conveniently already had a second button installed on the control panel. I had to run a new wire from the JAMMA harness to the second button and luckily I had just enough wire remaining on the harness to splice into. As part of the “conversion” I also rewired the grounding system that had been in disrepair ever since I got the cabinet. I have the original owner’s manual but no cabinet artwork.