The Masters of Kin

Arcade Video game published 37 years ago:

The Master of KIN (c) 1988 Du Tech.

A sideways scrolling beat-em-up game.

In the time of the gods, evil roamed free in the lands. Zorg 'The Master of Kin', took his wife to temple and before kissing her, suddenly the evil sorcerer Zangar came and invaded the place and took his wife kidnapped towards his castle. The knight Zorg begins his quest in the outlands of the Kin domain to rescue his wife from the enemy hands.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 2.048 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DAC, SN76496 (@ 1.789772 Mhz), Sanyo VLM5030 (@ 3.58 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 32

Players : 1
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

This game uses songs of Konami's Track & Field, also uses the 'Charriots of fire' theme in name input (high score).

Default highscore table (THE MASTERS) :
1. AAA 1000000
2. BBB 500000
3. CCC 100000
4. DDD 90000
5. EEE 80000
6. FFF 70000
7. GGG 60000
8. HHH 50000
9. III 40000
10. JJJ 30000
11. KKK 20000
12. LLL 10000
13. MMM 9000
14. NNN 8000
15. OOO 7000
16. PPP 6000

- STAFF -

Written by : Kyle Hodgetts

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