game
| title | Dragon Buster |
| set name | drgnbstr |
| manufacturer | Namco |
| year | 1984 |
| genre | Platform (hof) |
| category | Platform / Fighter Scrolling (hof) |
| driver status | good |
| driver source | skykid.c |
| snapshots | PS: in game
| title
| gameover
/ MW: in game
/ CT: in game
| title
/ EJ: in game
/ artwork: flyer
| PCB
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| rating |   65.9% after 73 votes |
display
| colour emulation | good |
| palette | 1280 |
| display type | raster |
| orientation | horizontal |
| resolution | 288x224 |
| frequency | 60.606060Hz |
sound
| sound emulation | good |
| channels | mono |
controls
| players | 2 |
| nplayers | 2P alt |
| controls | 4 way joystick |
| buttons | 2 |
| coin slots | 2 |
hardware
| cpu | M6809 @ 1.536MHz |
| cpu | HD63701 @ 6.144MHz |
| audio | Namco CUS30 @ 0.024MHz |
data
| version added | .036b11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last change(s) | .107u3 .080 .059 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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additional information
| info | 0.36b11 [Manuel Abadia] Bugs:
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| history | Dragon Buster (c) 1984 Namco. A role-playing game in which you travel through various scenery to rescue the princess from an evil dragon. - TECHNICAL - Game ID : DB Main CPU : M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz), HD63701 (@ 1.536 Mhz) Sound Chips : Namco 8-channel WSG Screen orientation : Horizontal Video resolution : 288 x 224 pixels Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz Palette colors : 256 Players : 2 Control : 4-way joystick Buttons : 2 - TRIVIA - Dragon buster is the first game from Namco to include a life-bar system. Massimo Gaspari holds the official record for this game with 1,300,560 points on July 18, 1985. Namco released a boardgame based on this game (same name) in 1985 (in Japan only) : You roll the dice to move around the board and complete quests. The game includes a variety of event cards, charts for randomizing events and encounters,counters for monsters and items and such. The goal of this game is to kill the dragon and rescue the princess. - SERIES -
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