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Egg Venture (Release 8)

Game Information
manufacturer ICE / The Game Room
year 1997
Clone of eggventr
genre Gun
downloads 26
Screenshots
eggventr8 title
eggventr8 snap
eggventr8 select
eggventr8 gameover
Download Details
split set eggventr8.zip 26.44KiB
parent set eggventr.zip 1.42MiB
merged set eggventr.7z 1.14MiB
standalone set eggventr8.7z 940.91KiB
Game Details

Arcade Video game kit published 27 years ago:

Egg Venture (c) 1997 ICE [Innovative Concepts in Ent.].

A 'kid-friendly' animated shoot'em up game. Players use an optical gun to shoot at the 'bad eggs' while avoiding shooting the 'good guy eggs'. Players advance stage by stage to 38 different levels by shooting a certain number of targets.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: TMS34010 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound Chips: (3x) OKI6295 (@ 15.151 Khz)

Players: 2
Control: lightgun
Buttons: 1

- TRIVIA -

Egg Venture was a joint project between arcade parts company 'The Game Room' and 'ICE' (Innovative Creations in Entertainment), each of whom released their own version. The game was programmed by Kyle Hodgetts and does have several minor glitches, mainly down to the nature of the hardware. Problems with the availability of components meant that Kyle was forced to duplicate the sound system three times on the board to achieve polyphony, rather than using a simpler, but more expensive YM/OKI combination.

Egg Venture does not have an ending and it's only scoring system is the printing of the Dynamic Play Adjustment skill ranking after every 'day'.

The game appears to use (in places) the bass line from 'The Great Egg Race' by Martin Cooke and Richard Denton of BBC Records, although this is apparently a legitimate use, as the music came from a royalty-free library disc.

Following the success of Egg Venture, or more likely to fix the bugs present, a 'Deluxe version' was made.

The Egg Venture characters were later used in a kids redemption game.

- STAFF -

Developed by The Game Room.
Driver Details
source ice/lethalj.cpp
driver status good
emulation status good
save states unsupported
channels 1
Screen Details
display screen
type raster
orientation horizontal
width 512
height 236
refresh rate 61.24hz
Input Details
player: 1
type lightgun
directions N/A
buttons 1way
player: 2
type lightgun
directions N/A
buttons 1way
Chipset Details
Texas Instruments TMS34010 40.00mhz
Speaker present
OKI MSM6295 ADPCM 2.00mhz
OKI MSM6295 ADPCM 2.00mhz
OKI MSM6295 ADPCM 2.00mhz
ROM Details
name size crc
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evc9.8.vc9 128.00KiB 3ac0a95b
egr1.gr1 1.00MiB f73f80d9
egr2.gr2 1.00MiB 3a9ba910
egr4.gr4 1.00MiB 4ea5900e
egr3.gr3 1.00MiB 3f8dfc73
egr6.3.gr6 1.00MiB f299d818
egr5.3.gr5 1.00MiB ebfca07b
eu20.u20 512.00KiB cca5dba0
eu21.u21 512.00KiB cca5dba0
eu18.u18 512.00KiB cca5dba0