1943 The Battle Of Midway

Manufacturer: Capcom
Year: 1987
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Shooter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: JAMMA
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [Fire/Loop|Special/Loop]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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1943 The Battle Of Midway Description

The players control WWII planes in this 2-D vertically scrolling shooter. Missions are flown alternately in the clouds against enemy planes and over water where there player must also disable enemy ships. There are many different weapons available via power-ups.

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Cheats, Tricks and Bugs

A little known trick in the game is to hold down the fire "A" button at the very end of a board immediately after beating the boss. By holding down the button until the plane takes off in the subsequent board, the game gives you a full ammunition load (65 Seconds)! This trick only works every third board or so and it may even change your selected weapon.

A good solution if you want to do a big score: In each "boss level", kill all the ennemies exept the boss. If you do not kill the boss you will start back at the beginning of the level. This trick works only one time for each "level boss", but in the last level, round 16, if you never kill the boss you will continue to start back at the beginning every time. It is theoretically possible to score an infinite amount of points!

Game Play

Pressing both buttons simultaneously causes the player's ship to loop out of the 2-D action plane temporarily. This is very useful for getting behind enemy planes. Pressing Special calls up a special attack (lightning in the air, a wave over water), but also uses up the player's energy. The game is over when the player runs out of energy, but energy can be replenished via power-ups or for completing a level. Likewise, in two-player mode, players can share life energy by placing both planes over each other for two seconds.

Miscellaneous

High scores are not saved when powered down.

VAPS Arcade Census

GAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Very Common - There are 93 known instances of 1943 The Battle Of Midway owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 23 of them are original dedicated machines, 14 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 56 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,121 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 46 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 4 VAPS members currently looking for 1943 The Battle Of Midway. There is one VAPS member looking for a 1943 The Battle Of Midway circuit board set.

For Sale - There are 2 VAPS members with 1943 The Battle Of Midway machines for sale. There are 2 VAPS members with extra 1943 The Battle Of Midway circuit boards for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

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Trivia

This game was designed by Yoshiki Okamoto. Okamoto designed two games while at Konami: Time Pilot and Gyruss. He later went to Capcom where he also designed 1942, Final Fight, and the Street Fighter series of games.

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Legacy

Manuals

Instruction Manual 20 Pages, 2963 KB File.
Schematics 36 Pages, 2579 KB File.

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