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Lightning Fighters Lightning Fighters - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Lightning Fighters - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

A vertical shooter with cool weapons such as a fire dragon.

Lightning Fighters was produced by Konami in 1990.

Konami released 433 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Lightning Fighters was produced include: Kyuukouka Bakugekitai, Cosmic Wars, Main Stadium, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - Style 2, Aliens, Golfing Greats, Over Drive, Parodius Da, and Punk Shot

Lightning Fighters - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet
(Contributed by: mike fox)

Specs

Name Lightning Fighters
Developer Konami
Year 1990
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8429
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings

Lightning Fighters Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Joint
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 [FireSuper Weapon]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Lightning Fighters KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.82 (3 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.70

Overall Like 3.50
Fun (Social) 4.00
Fun (Solo) 3.50
Collector Desire 4.00

Technical Rating: 2.83

Gameplay 3.50
Graphics 4.00
Originality 2.67
Sound/Music 4.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Lightning Fighters Census

There are 14,716 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,455 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,291 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Common - There are 26 known instances of this machine owned by Lightning Fighters collectors who are active members. Of these, One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 25 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

This game ranks a 9 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Manuals

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