Lost In Translation/Sly Spy

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Sly Spy
Sly Spy marquee.
Sly Spy title screen.
Sly Spy control panel.
Manufacturer Data East USA
Released 1989
Control
Method
8-way Joystick
2 Button(s)
Main CPU 68000 (@ 12.000 MHz)
HuC6280 (@ 3.000 MHz)
Sound CPU Mono
YM2203 (@ 1.500 MHz)
YM3812 (@ 3.000 MHz)
OKI6295 (@ 1.024 MHz)
Video
Details
Raster (Horizontal)
256 x 240 pixels
57.41 Hz
1,024 Palette colours
Screens 1
ROM Info 21 ROMs
1,443,088 bytes (1.38 MiB)
MAME ID slyspy · secretab · secretag · slyspy2

About The Game

Sly Spy is a multi-level arcade video game.

Additional Technical Information

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2 (ATTACK, JUMP)

Trivia

Released in July 1989.

This game is known outside US as "Secret Agent".

In this Data East 'James Bond' Game (without the License) you can see a lot of publicity for other Data East games like Bad Dudes, Karnov and Chelnov.

A Sly Spy unit appears in the 1990 movie 'RoboCop 2'.

Staff

Game Planner
Makoto Kikuchi
Programmers
Hinsyuku Man
Tac.H
Umanosuke
Designers
Dot Man
Kim
Malukin
Sin
Kanamori
Jun
Ferrari Adachi
Magurin Warrior
Musicians
Azusa Hara (AZUSA)
Hiroaki Yoshida (MARO)
Hardwares
Kazuhiro Takayama
P! Fujimoto
Osapan
Special Thanks To
Joe Kaminkow

Cabinet and Artwork

Ports

Box art for the Ocean port of Sly Spy.
Computers
Amstrad CPC (1990)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1990)
Atari ST (1990)
Commodore Amiga ("Sly Spy - Secret Agent", 1989, Ocean)
Commodore C64


Sound Comparison

Platform Song Titles Sound Source
Arcade "Stage 1, 3, 5, 6, 8" "Demo & Map" "Stage Intro" "Stage 2" "Stage 4, 7" "Boss BGM" "Ending" M1 v0.7.8a6

External Links


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.