game
| title | Wacko |
| set name | wacko |
| manufacturer | Bally Midway |
| year | 1982 |
| genre | Shooter (hof) |
| category | Shooter / Field (hof) |
| driver status | good |
| driver source | mcr.c |
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| rating |   70.7% after 19 votes |
display
| colour emulation | good |
| palette | 64 |
| display type | raster |
| orientation | horizontal |
| resolution | 512x480 |
| frequency | 30.000000Hz |
sound
| sound emulation | good |
| channels | stereo |
controls
| players | 2 |
| nplayers | 2P alt |
| controls | double 4 way joystick |
| buttons | 0 |
| coin slots | 2 |
hardware
| cpu | Z80 @ 2.496MHz |
| cpu | Z80 @ 2MHz |
| audio | AY-3-8910A @ 2MHz |
| audio | AY-3-8910A @ 2MHz |
data
| version added | .028 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last change(s) | .060 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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additional information
| info | 0.28 [Christopher Kirmse, Aaron Giles, Nicola Salmoria, Brad Oliver, John Butler] WIP:
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| history | Wacko (c) 1982 Bally Midway. The game is a colorful single screen shooter, with excellent graphics for the time. You maneuver 'Kapt'n Krooz'r' around the screen in his spaceship. The terrain is an orange moon scene, various cartoonish monsters dot the landscape. You must blast the monsters in pairs to make them vanish. Later levels introduce even more complex rules as to what can be shot. You control your ship with the trackball, while using the joystick to aim and shoot. The controls feel natural with a little practice, but the game quickly becomes very difficult on the higher levels. - TECHNICAL - Bally Midway MCR 2 hardware Main CPU : Z80 (@ 2.496 Mhz) Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 2 Mhz) Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz) Screen orientation : Horizontal Video resolution : 512 x 480 pixels Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz Palette colors : 64 Players : 2 Control : Trackball, joystick - TRIVIA - The game originally had a wizard shooting at cute animals but Bally/Midway execs thought it was too cute and needed an edge. Monsters were designed by Scott and put in instead, plus Bally/Midway also called him at the last minute to replace the wizard with the little green alien from Kozmik Kooz'r. The slanted cabinet was an idea by Marvin Glass which required the trackballs to be installed upside down to work properly. This title takes the prize for having the strangest dedicated cabinet ever made The Wacko cabinet is sloped, both the control panel, and the marquee are set at an angle. The right side of each being about three inches lower than the left side. This means that the joystick and trackball are both at an angle. This is the only machine ever made to feature a sloped control panel (a distinction which it will probably keep for a long time). A Wacko machine was shown at the 2003 classic arcade games show 'California Extreme' in San Jose, California. - STAFF -
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