game
| title | Looping (set 1) |
| set name | looping |
| manufacturer | Venture Line |
| year | 1982 |
| genre | Shooter (hof) |
| category | Shooter / Flying (hof) |
| driver status | imperfect |
| driver source | looping.c |
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| rating |   68.3% after 23 votes |
| clones | Looping (set 2) |
display
| colour emulation | good |
| palette | 32 |
| display type | raster |
| orientation | vertical |
| resolution | 224x256 |
| frequency | 60.606061Hz |
sound
| sound emulation | imperfect |
| channels | mono |
controls
hardware
| cpu | TMS9995 @ 12MHz |
| cpu | TMS9980A/TMS9981 @ 2MHz |
| cpu | COP420 @ 4MHz |
| audio | AY-3-8910A @ 2MHz |
| audio | TMS5220 @ 0.64MHz |
| audio | DAC |
data
| version added | .037b12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last change(s) | none since version .53 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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cabinet art
| cabinet | looping.png |
| marquee | looping.png |
| control panel | looping.png |
| flyer | looping.png |
| PCB | looping.png |
additional information
| info | 0.37b12 [Phil Stroffolino] Bugs:
- Looping used perhaps the most bizarre assortment of hardware ever deployed in an arcade game. The schematics run to at least seven pages and no one really wants to hurt their heads that badly - Randy Hoffman. Recommended Games (Airforce): Canyon Bomber Dambusters Looping Sky Bumper P-47 P-47 Aces Prehistoric Isle in 1930 Prehistoric Isle 2 (NeoGeo) Twin Falcons U.N. Squadron Carrier Air Wing US AAF Mustang Boogie Wings Koutetsu Yousai Strahl Romset: 51 kb / 11 files / 21.8 zip |
| history | Looping (c) 1982 Video Games GMBH. As the player begins his flight into Adventure-Land, his airplane is quickly surrounded by hot air balloons. WATCH OUT! These seemingly innocent colorful objects mean destruction. Immediately the Player's flying skills are tested. The hot air balloons challenge and engage the Player in a fierce dogfight. The Player must loop his plane to avoid and destroy the swirling balloons. As the Player continues his journey into Adventure-Land he encounters the Maze Tunnel. Now the Player must guide and loop his airplane through the labyrinth with precision movements. - TECHNICAL - Main CPU : TMS9995 (@ 12 Mhz), TMS9980A/TMS9981 (@ 2 Mhz), COP420 (@ 1 Mhz) Sound Chips : AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz), TMS5220 (@ 640 Khz), DAC Screen orientation : Vertical Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz Palette colors : 32 Players : 2 Control : 2-way joystick (vertical) Buttons : 2 => [A] FIRE, [B] FLIGHT ACCELERATOR - TRIVIA - Released in April 1982. Licensed to Venture Line for US manufacture and distribution. Looping was developed in Parma, Italy. Video Games GMBH (located in the town of Lich in Germany) started as an unauthorized bootleg manufacturer (i.e. : "Space Attack" (1978)) founded by Mr. Reinhard Stompe. When the European countries changed their laws to protect the original creators, they started to develop their own arcade games. However, only two original games from Video Games GMBH are known to exist : "Super Tank" (1981) and Looping (1982). Video Games GmbH was sold to Ican Data GmbH (Munich) in 1987 for US $10 million. David Teehee holds the official record for this game with 1,469,970 points. A Looping machine was shown at the 2003 classic arcade games show 'California Extreme' in San Jose, California. - SERIES -
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