Omega Fighter

Description

A space shooter with various levels and backgrounds. Players control spaceships that can collect various power-ups for increased and different fire power. Two players can play at the same time cooperative.

Omega Fighter was produced by UPL in 1989.

UPL released 34 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1976. UPL was based in United States.

Other machines made by UPL during the time period Omega Fighter was produced include: Arc Area, Ark Area, XX Mission, Ninja-Kid II, Mutant Night, Task Force Harrier, Atomic Robo-Kid, Omega Fighter Special, Ochichi Mahjong, and Urashima Mahjong

Specs

Name	Omega Fighter
Developer	UPL (United States)
Year	1989
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8918
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Vertical Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	JAMMA
Dipswitch Settings	Omega Fighter Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Team
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 - FireSpecial Weapon
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Video Clips

[HD] Omega Fighter Mission 1-2 1989 UPL Mame Retro Arcade Games

Game Introduction

Players control up to two ships much like in Raiden or Sky Shark. The game has fast action with some original power-ups such as a "slow down" feature that temporarily slows the action to aid in survival.

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

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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Miscellaneous

This game was licensed to American Sammy for US manufacture and distribution.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Omega Fighter Census

There are 14,756 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,475 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,456 machines (6,896 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 13 known instances of this machine owned by Omega Fighter collectors who are active members. Of these, 13 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Omega Fighter.

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

This game ranks a 2 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

The PCB contains two sets of DIP switches that change difficulty, the number of ships, coin selection and cocktail or upright modes. An on-screen test mode starts at power-on and a diagnostic mode can be selected via the test switch to check the foreground and background ROM images, color and sound.

Legacy

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