Konami RF2 - Red Fighter

Konami Bubble System cart. published 40 years ago:

Konami RF2 - Red Fighter (c) 1985 Konami industry co ltd.

Drive your car through 6 courses, avoiding other cars and motorcycles. Drive through fuel bubbles to gain more fuel. Run out of fuel and it's game over.

- TECHNICAL -

GAME ID: GX561

Runs on Nemesis/Gradius hardware
Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 9.216 Mhz)
Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips: (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.789772 Mhz), K005289 (@ 1.789772 Mhz), Sanyo VLM5030 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

Screen orientation: Horizontal
Video resolution: 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh: 60.61 Hz
Palette colors: 2048

Players: 1
Control: steering wheel with no lock + 1 pedal (gas, digital) or 2 (gas and brake, both digital), high-low gear shift
Buttons: 0

- TRIVIA -

Konami RF2 - Red Fighter was released in October 1985.

Exported outside Japan as "Konami GT [Model GX561]".

This game has collecting gas bubbles more or less in common with Road Fighter, as well as flights occurring on later stages.

Not all versions of RF2 or Konami GT have a brake pedal.

This game can be converted into Hyper Crash (when Konami GT with or without brake option in dip switches is set there)

Alfa Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Konami Game Music Vol.2 - ALC-22904) on September 25, 1986.

- SCORING -

* 5 yards driven: 10 pts.
* Gas bubble: 500 pts; 1000 pts and every 500 pts, up to 5000 pts (when not crashed; accident resets to 500 pts per bubble).
* bonus score: 500 pts per fuel unit (awarded after stage) + 3000 when a skull appears.
* biplane flight (on stage 2): 1000 pts.
* helicopter flight (on stage 3): 2000 pts.
* spaceship flight (on stage 4): 3000 pts.
* UFO flight (on stage 5): 5000 pts.
* sled flight with reindeer and Santa Claus (on stage 6; doesn't always appear): 5000 pts.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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