Lost In Translation/Crossbow

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Crossbow
Manufacturer	Exidy
Released	1983
Control Method	Lightgun 1 Button(s)
Main CPU	M6809 (@ 1.622 MHz) M6809 (@ 811.200 kHz)
Sound CPU	Stereo Custom (@ 50.700 kHz)
Video Details	Raster (Horizontal) 320 x 240 pixels 60.00 Hz 256 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	57 ROMs 395,520 bytes (386.25 KiB)
MAME ID	crossbow

About The Game

Crossbow is an early, first-person shoot-em-up, arcade video game with a Dungeons & Dragons feel about it. Features good speech and screams.

Trivia

Released in October 1983. Crossbow is the first of Exidy's classic shoot-em-up. It was also the first video game in history to completely use digitized sound and music.

Donn Nauert holds the official record for this game with 19,885,500 points on July 18, 1984.

Staff

Designed And Programmed By

Larry Hutcherson

Vic Tolomei

Ken Nicholson

Cabinet and Artwork

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  Crossbow arcade cabinet.

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  Crossbow flyer.

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  Back of the Crossbow flyer.

Ports

Consoles

Atari 2600

Atari 7800

Atari XEGS

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.