Space Dungeon

Manufacturer: Taito
Year: 1981
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Space
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: unique
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way [Movement]
Joystick: 8-way [Firing]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Space Dungeon Description

Piloting a pie-shaped spacecraft, you must move from sector to sector collecting treasure while avoiding enemies and corner-mounted lasers. The more treasure you have with you the higher your bonus when you reach the goal. A "thief" roams the sectors collecting treasure at the same time, but shooting the thief causes him to drop all his treasure.

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Cabinet Information

The dedicated version comes in a standard Taito cabinet with generic "Taito" side art, but the coloring is blue on black, matching the rest of the cabinet.

Conversion

The game uses the same boardset as Qix but has the addition of a coin processor board to prevent ROM swaps. A ROM hack exists to make the game run without the coin processor board, so there is a possibility that a conversion could be a straight ROM swap. Other games that run on nearly identical hardware are Zoo Keeper, The Electric Yo-Yo and Kram.

Game Play

The game plays similar to Robotron: 2084 and Smash TV. The controls are the same and you can move from sector to sector by consulting a map. Most of the enemies are killed with one hit, but one type of enemy requires a direct hit to the center. This character is pie-shaped with a "piece" missing. You can shoot off other pieces a couple hits at a time to make hitting the center easier.

CAPS/VAPS Arcade Census

There are 6,477 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,719 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 61,030 machines (3,625 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 6 known instances of this machine owned by Space Dungeon collectors. Of these, 5 of them are original dedicated machines, and it is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

This game ranks a 4 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Wanted - There are 3 VAPS members currently looking for Space Dungeon.

This game ranks a 8 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

For Sale - There is one VAPS member with a Space Dungeon machine 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.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them even though arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses, while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up.
Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector.
In particular, since VAPS started out focusing on videogames, statistics for other types of machines should not (yet) be an indication of scarcity.
For a clue to value, look at absolute numbers of owners and potential owners above, compare a ratio of how many people want this game vs. how many people have this game (50%) and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

If the original NiCad battery is still on the PCB, remove it and replace it with a 3.6v rechargable, mounted away the board. The 4116 video RAM ICs often fail and since they are becoming hard to find, they can be replaced with modified 4164's.

Manuals

Operation, Maintenance, Service Manual 62 Pages, 8825 KB File.

Foto-Finder™

The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 133; Color photo;

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