Lost In Translation/Image Fight

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Image Fight
Manufacturer	Irem
Released	1988
Control Method	8-way Joystick 4 Button(s)
Main CPU	V30 (@ 8.000 MHz) Z80 (@ 3.580 MHz)
Sound CPU	Stereo YM2151 (@ 3.580 MHz) DAC
Video Details	Raster (Vertical) 384 x 256 pixels 55.00 Hz 512 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	19 ROMs 1,638,400 bytes (1.56 MiB)
MAME ID	imgfight

About The Game

Image Fight is a vertically scrolling arcade video game shoot-em-up with an original premise. The game's first 5 stages are supposed to be a 'simulation' and serve as training to test the player's abilities. Player's will receive a penalty if their hit-ratio is too low.

Once players have proved themselves on the opening stages, they will progress to the game's last 3 stages, blasting off into space on a mission to destroy the alien vegetation surrounding the Moon's main computer. If the player fails in the mission, they must endure the dreaded 'Penalty Zone'. Features a high level of challenge, a wide variety of weapons and the ability to change speed.

If the player's ship is equipped with one or more red/blue extra guns, pushing both ACTION buttons simultaneously will sling the guns forward in a boomerang-like fashion. This is a powerful and destructive method and can be done an unlimited number of times.

Trivia

Released in November 1988.

The OF-1 (the player's ship) appears as an unlockable ship in the Sony PlayStation 2 game "R-Type Final".

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Image Fight : G.S.M Irem 1 - D28B0012) on 21/01/1989.

Tips and tricks

Secret Invincibility

1. Turn DIP 2-7 ON.
2. Reset the game with holding Player 2-Button 2 (Speed Change button).
3. You will be able to start a game with invincibility.

Series

1. Image Fight (1988)
2. Image Fight II (1991)

Staff

Sound Composer

Sclap

Cabinet and Artwork

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  Image Fight flyer.

Ports

Consoles

NEC PC-Engine (1990)

Nintendo Famicom (1990)

Sega Saturn (1998, "Image Fight & X-Multiply")

Sony PlayStation (1998, "Image Fight & X Multiply")

FM Town Marty

Computers

Sharp X68000 (1990)

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1-	D28B-0012	1989-01-21	Pony Canyon, Inc.	CD version.
Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1-	25P5-0012	1989-01-21	Pony Canyon, Scitron	Cassette version.
Image Fight	15A3-4	1989-01-25	Alpha Records	CD version.

References

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.