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The Alien Arena coin-operated Videogame by Duncan Brown software (circa 1985), and it's history and background, photos, repair help, manuals, for sale and wanted lists, and census survey is brought to you by The International Arcade Museum at the Museum fo the Game.
By 1984, I had reverse-engineered the hardware used in Williams' gamesto the point where I had essentially created a 'programmer's guide'for it. Destiny called, I had to write a new game from scratch forthis great hardware! My original intent was to end up with aconversion kit that was more user-friendly than most (remember this wasback when conversions were just starting to come into existence, longbefore JAMMA, and most of them were a complete mess to install). A newmarquee, new side stickers, new control panel, and 12 EPROMs, and awayyou go! No messy wiring, board modifications, etc. My productioncosts would be low, my sale price could be high.Well, that was the plan anyway.Over the course of a year, I wrote 'Alien Arena'. It was written in6809 assembly language using a cross-compiler on an Apple II+.
Usingcustom-designed and handbuilt emulator hardware (.24. 2Kx8 static RAMson a board connected to the Apple with a custom bus interface!) I couldtest out my code without the slowdown of programming and erasing abunch of EPROMs all the time.When I was done, I assembled it into an ex-Stargate cabinet, and put itout in the arcade I owned at the time. I made a few modifications(mostly to the computer-player AI) based on feedback from customers. Icannot say it was an immense hit. Most people thought it sucked,frankly. You decide for yourself. I know my wife and I had a blastplaying it while I was designing it (probably added 6 months to thetime to finish it, heh heh heh.).A full history of the game is available in thefile, along with instructions on how to put the game onto real hardware.
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