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Vimana Vimana - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

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Description

A vertical-shooter where your craft shoots at enemies and collects power-ups. The ship has a charge-up weapon that increases its shot power when the fire button is held down for longer periods of time.

Vimana was produced by Toaplan in 1991.

Toaplan released 31 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1986. Toaplan was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Toaplan during the time period Vimana was produced include: Snow Bros., Out Zone, Demon's World, Hellfire, Hell Fire, Whoopee!!, Ghox, Teki Paki, Pipi & Bibis, and Fixeight

Vimana
Vimana

Specs

Name Vimana
Developer Toaplan (Japan)
Year 1991
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 10318
Class Wide Release
Genre Scrolling Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Joint
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 [Fire|Weapon]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Vimana KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Miscellaneous

This game was licensed to Tecmo for Japanese distribution. It was licensed to Romstar for US manufacture and distribution.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Vimana Census

There are 14,717 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,456 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,294 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Common - There are 34 known instances of this machine owned by Vimana collectors who are active members. Of these, It is an original dedicated machine (not another machine converted with a kit). 32 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Vimana machine for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Vimana circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Vimana. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Vimana circuit board set.

This game ranks a 7 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Technical

This game shares the same boardset as IFire SharkI with the sound code placed in a protected Hitachi MCU.

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