Star Tech Journal

STAR*TEcH
Journal
August 1995
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SEGA PINBALL
AMOA 1995
CPU POWER-UP
GAME AWARD NOMINEES
SELF TEST
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Most Played Videogame
(Dedicated)
Upon power-up, the CPU Board :
performs a series of self tests of :
major components. Turn the
game on while observing the 1
LEDs on the CPU Board. Tests
of the PIAs, RAM, and
EPROMs are performed auto-
matically and results of the tests
are indicated by the PIA LED.
Most Played Pool Table
* Dynamo's Top Brass Pool
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* Cruis'n USA (Midway)
* Daytona USA (Sega)
* Killer Instinct (Midway)
* Mortal Kombat II (Midway)
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* Mortal Kombat III
Table
* Great American Billiard's
Pool Table
* Valley's Cougar Pool Table
(Midway)
ost Played Jukebox
Most Played Pinball Game
1
* Antique Apparatus/ Rock-
Blank
* Addams Family {Bally)
PIA
+5V
Road Show (Williams)
* Shaq Attaq (Premier)
* Star Trek: TNG (Williams)
* World Cup Soccer (Bally)
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Normal Operation
Most Played Conversion Ki
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Figure 1
PIA LED
Suspect Component
Stays on
One of the 6821 PIAs
Flashes 1 time
6264 RAM@ D5
Flashes 2 times
EPROM@ C5
With all tests passed, the LEDs
illuminate in the following se-
quence at power turn-on. The
1 PIA and +5v LEDs illuminate
immediately. Approximately 2>-second later, the PIA LED
goes out and the blanking LED
illuminates; the blanking and
+5v LEDs remain illuminated
: (normal operation) until the
1
game is turned off {see Fig. 1).
Test failures are indicated with
1 the PIA LED lit.
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Mortal Kombat II (Midway)
* Mortal Kombat III (Midway)
* Raiden II (Fabtek)
* Tekken (Namco)
* X-Men ( Cap com)
ost Played
Redemption Game
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* Cyclone (I.C.E.)
* Skee-Ball (Skee-Ball)
* Smart Ball (Smart Industries)
* Spin-To-Win (Lasertron)
* Wheel-Em-In (Bromley)
Most Innovative New
Technology
Most Popular Other Game
* Daytona USA (Sega)
* Killer Instinct (Williams)
* Dynamo's Foosball
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Mega Touch II (Merit)
• * Tekken (Namco)
* Virtua Fighter II (Sega)
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Dynamo's Air Hockey
Tornado's Foosball
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Most Played Dart Game
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Ola: Anniversary Legend
NSM: Performer Wall
* Rowe: Laserstar CD 100
* Wurlitzer: One-More-Time
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* Arachnid's Galaxy
* Merit's Scorpion
* Valley's Cougar
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