Lost In Translation/Master of Weapon

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Master of Weapon
Manufacturer	Taito Corporation Japan
Released	1989
Control Method	8-way Joystick 2 Button(s)
Main CPU	68000 (@ 12.000 MHz) Z80 (@ 4.000 MHz)
Sound CPU	Mono YM2203 (@ 3.000 MHz)
Video Details	Raster (Vertical) 320 x 224 pixels 60.00 Hz 4,096 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	7 ROMs 1,638,400 bytes (1.56 MiB)
MAME ID	masterw · masterwu

Master of Weapon is an arcade video game.

A seven-day nuclear storm brings on a big change on the earth. The earth cracks, the sea boils and the living things change. And human is no exception. After finishing of the cursed 7-day war, the remaining people change their cells and return to the nature in order to endure severe environmental changes. However, a selected part of the people - they had been called scientists - create a computer, which can lead the people in order to leave a seed humankind. This computer is called N.

Trivia

The title on the title screen is "Master of Weapon" but the title was probably supposed to be "Master of Weapons" as certain marquees says it is.

A very rare prototype of this game is known as "Yukiwo".

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Taito DJ Station : G.S.M. Taito 5 - PCCB-00037) on 21/08/1990.

Tips & Tricks

Levels Select

• Boot machine with service switch pressed.
• Message appears : SERVICE SWITCH ERROR, press 1p Start(x3), service switch, 1p Start.
• Message appears : SELECT BY DOWN SW, select level with joy Down/Up and push Start button.

Staff

Directed & Produced By

George Jyuttute

Game & Character Designed By

Yukiwo Ishikawa (Y.I)

Programmed By

George K-5

Takeshi Murata (T.M)

Creamy Tetsu (TET)

Maryin Kondoh

Art Designed By

Yukiwo Ishikawa

Takako Kojima

Dandy Yarita

Makoto Fujita

Akira Saitoh

Hisakazu Katoh

Oolong Yamada

Kenji Hazama

Animation 20

Santa Claus

Hardware Designed By

Eikichi Takahashi

Hiroyuki Noguchi

Music Composed & Arranged By

Hisayoshi Ogura

Yasuhisa Watanabe

Graphic Designed By

Hiroyasu Nagai

Kazuo Nakagawa

Animation 20

Ports

Consoles

Sega Mega Drive (1991)

Sony PlayStation 2 (2007, "Taito Memories II Vol. 2")

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
Taito DJ Station -G.S.M. Taito 5-	PCCB-00037	1990-08-21	Pony Canyon/Scitron	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.