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Sarge

Game Information
manufacturer Bally Midway
year 1985
genre N/A
downloads 9
Screenshots
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Download Details
split set sarge.zip 82.82k
merged set sarge.7z 68.41k
standalone set sarge.7z 68.41k
artwork sarge.zip 426.22k
Game Details
Arcade Video game published 40 years ago:

Sarge (c) 1985 Bally Midway.

- TECHNICAL -

Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware
[No. 0B88]

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 2 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DAC

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz
Palette colors : 64

Players : 2
Control : Double 2-way joystick (Vertical)
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in October 1985.

Considered by some to be the grandfather of all real-time video battle-games, Sarge was the first coin-op game to give players the ability to deploy multiple vehicles against common adversaries and, of course, each other.

Sarge is also probably the first real 'start-to-finish' design collaboration between artist/animator Brian Colin and programmer Jeff Nauman.

From Brian Colin, Lead Artist on Sarge : "The realistically depicted female soldier featured in the game generated so much interest when it was first introduced that, part-way through it's production run, we slipped a hidden player incentive. With the machine's internal DIP switches set a certain way, players who achieved a rank of Colonel were greeted with a winking, sexy GI Jane wearing little more than a smile.
The DIP switches should be set as follows : 0011000100.
To see if the switches are set correctly, look at the girl at the start of the game. If she is wearing a low-cut T-shirt, then the 'hidden player incentive' is on.".

- STAFF -

Software : Jeff Nauman
Artists : Brian Colin, Sharon Perry
Sounds : Bob Libbe, Neil Falconer
Hardware : Cary Mednick, Steve Ackerman
Mechanical : John Kubik
Added support : Jim Belt

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Atari 7800: Unreleased prototype.

* COMPUTERS:
PC [DOS] (1989)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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Driver Details
source midway/mcr3.cpp
status good
emulation good
savestate supported
Screen Details
display screen
type raster
orientation horizontal
width 512px
height 480px
refresh 30mhz
Input Details
player 1
type doublejoy
buttons 2
directions vertical2
player 2
type doublejoy
buttons 2
directions vertical2
Chipset Details
name Zilog Z80
clock 4.77mhz
name Motorola MC6809E
clock 1.91mhz
name Speaker
clock N/A
name Midway Turbo Cheap Squeak Sound Board
clock 7.63mhz
name AD7533 DAC
clock N/A
name Biquad Filter
clock N/A
name Biquad Filter
clock N/A
name Biquad Filter
clock N/A
ROM Details
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spr_6e.bin 32.00k 7cc6fb28
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