
On the cage stage, instead of clambering down short ladders, it is quicker to fall to the lower level. On levels which have pits of molten lava, whipping enemy guards until they fall in the lava will earn additional bonus points. Whipping all the gas cannisters in the mines stage gives a 'Pyro Bonus' and whipping every bone pile and snake in the altar stage also gives a bonus. Game Trivia : The first Atari System I game with speech.Ĭheats / Easter Eggs : At the difficulty select screen, whip all the hanging skeletons and both snakes to receive a 5,000 point 'Completion Bonus'. Gameplay : The first stage involves rescuing the slave children from their cages, followed by a minecart chase, then stealing a shankara stone from the sacrifice room, once this is done 3 times the game either ends (on Easy) or you have a rope bridge stage where you have to defeat Mola Ram (on Medium & Hard).

Magazine Reviews (external link) : C+VG Dec '85 Notes : A prototype, if I were to take an educated guess I would say this ended up being Blasteroids.įlyers (external link) : Flyer 1 ) - Flyer 2 ) The original System 1 main boards and cartridges used a large number of 7400 series TTL chips, these early boards were later replaced by the functionally identical "System 1 LSI Main" and "LSI Cartridge" boards, which used LSI ASICs (for reduced manufacturing costs).Ĭartridge board : Contained the game ROMs, graphics shift registers, Slapstic copy protection chip, Yamaha YM2151 FM sound generator, a POKEY and (for some games) a TI TMS5220 LPC speech synthesis chip. Protection Chip : Slapstic 137412-1** - Slapstic F.A.Q.Ĭolours : 256 colours from a palette of 1024īoard composition : A Main Board and a Game Cartridge PCB.


Sound CPU : MOS Technology M6502 1.789772 MHz
