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Space Force Space Force - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Space Force - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Your spaceship is positioned in an asteroid field. Shoot at the rocks, blasting them into smaller and smaller pieces. Avoid the flying debris and the shots fired by the enemy UFOs.

Space Force was produced by Venture Line in 1980.

Venture Line released 9 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1976. Venture Line was based in United States.

Other machines made by Venture Line during the time period Space Force was produced include: Jokers Wild, Break Away, Golden Cup, Meteoroids, Looping, Ponpoko, and Sky Bumper

Specs

Name Space Force
Developer Venture Line (United States)
Year 1980
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9656
Class Wide Release
Genre Space
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Buttons: Rotational (left, right)
  • Buttons: 2 - FireHyperspace
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

This game is basically a raster version of Asteroids, but the objects you blast are solid, filled-in characters, not simple wire frames. The game has an intro sequence showing the player's craft blasting off from a launch pad.

Space Force KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.50 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 3.00

Overall Like 3.00
Fun (Social) 2.00
Fun (Solo) 3.00
Collector Desire 4.00

Technical Rating: 2.00

Gameplay 2.00
Graphics 3.00
Originality 1.00
Sound/Music 2.00

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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Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

There is a spot on the northeast side of the playfield where a player is invisible, but impenetrable.

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Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Asteroids

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Space Force Census

There are 14,755 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 164,460 machines (6,896 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 6 known instances of this machine owned by Space Force collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 3 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 1 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]

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1980 Space Force Arcade PCB Board (untested)

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FixedPrice
$110.00

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