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Solar Fox 1981 Bally Midway

1981

Solar Fox (c) 1981 Bally Midway.
Solar Fox is a space shooter and a Pac-Man-type game all in one. The playing field is square and only has walls on the outside. Each wall has a moving cannon mounted that will fire odd shaped torpedoes at your ship. Scattered around the inside will be a bunch of pellets in various simple patterns. To complete each level you have to drive over, or shoot all of the pellets. If done quickly enough the game will skip a level (going from 1 to 3, etc).

>>> TECHNICAL DETAILS
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Bally Midway MCR 1 hardware
Main CPU : Z80 (@ 2.496 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 2 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 480 x 512 pixels
Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 32
Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 2

>>> TRIVIA
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This game came in a grey dedicated cabinet with sideart of a spacemans head inside an arrow shaped logo. The monitor was mounted deep inside the game, and what the player saw was actually a mirror (a lot of old games were like that).
A Solar Fox unit appears in the 1983 movie 'Joysticks'.

>>> DESIGNERS / PROGRAMMERS / STAFF
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Programmed by : Jack Pearson
Sound programmed by : Ben Blish

>>> GAME PORTS TO OTHER SYSTEMS
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* Consoles :
Atari 2600 (1983)
* Computers :
Commodore C64 (1983)

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

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