[3/3/97]

             CHECKMAN by ZILEC / ZENITONE
             ----------------------------

Here is another board from my collection of ancient coin-op games.

This was a rather unusual maze game. The play area consisted of a
grid. As well as your man being able to move just about anywhere on
this grid, the horizontal strips of the grid could be moved left and
right ( the actual mechanism of doing this, I can't quite remember as
it's been a long time since I've played this game ). You also had to
avoid certain obstacles. Sorry, although I copied the ROMS, the board
was playing up a bit so did not have a chance to play it ( the game
screen appeared okay, but there was a rising pitch from my speaker -
and I don't like explosions ).

The idea of the game was to defuse various bombs dotted around the grid
whilst avoiding the baddies.

I believe this game was part of a series of 'interchangeable carts'
that you could just swap in and out ( not sure if it was that simple )
by, I think, Sub-Electro.

All of the ROMS are contained on a smallish single card. The main circuit
board is similar to Galaxian - there are no graphics ROMs - but two ribbon
cables from where the roms would be seated leading to the ROM board.

There are two boards perched above the main board. The first contains
two processors ( Z80's ) and an AY-3-8910 sound chip.

The ROM's were on the top board layed out as follows:

             CM13   CM14

         CM1    CM2    CM3   CM4

         CM5    ---    ---   ---

         CM9    ---    CM11  ---



27th February 1997.