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Dark Adventure 1987 Konami

1987

Dark Adventure (c) 1987 Konami.
An adventure-type game.

>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Game ID : GX687
Main CPU : (2x) 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz), K007232 (@ 3.579545 Mhz), UPD7759 (@ 640 Khz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 1024
Players : 3
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 4

>>> TRIVIA
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Released in September 1987.
This game is also known as 'Devil World' and in Japan as 'Majuu no Ohkoku'.
Due to the complexity and difficulty of Dark Adventure, it never faired well in the arcades.
Kelly Flewin holds the official record for this game with 123,300 points on June 4, 2006.

>>> GAME UPDATES
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Dark adventure is (a sort of) an update of 'Devil World' / 'Majuu no Ohkoku'.
* Different intro sequences.
* More difficult : The energy live decrease faster and each scene has more than one exit (and more than one key).
* There are three player characters instead of two (Zorlock has been added).
* The rectangle that contains the options (weapons and speed) that you can activate doesn't exist.
* The scenes with the dragon don't exist.
* The weapons and the process to catch them are different.

>>> DESIGNERS / PROGRAMMERS / STAFF
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Game programmers : Hiroyasu Machiguchi, Mitsuo Takemoto, Toshiaki Takatori, Kyuichiro Isutsui
Data file operator : Ikuko Minowa
Graphic designers : Jun Sakurai, Miki Yoshikata
Sound editors : Hideaki Shikama, Kenichi Matsubara
Engineer : Keisuke Hashima
Assistant programmers : Akira Suzuki, Tatsuo Fujii
Assistant designers : Takashi Jinbo, Hiroyuki Ashida, Michiko Iwamoto

>>> OTHER GAME RESOURCES
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Game's rom.
Machine's picture.

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