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Salamander - 沙羅曼蛇

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Salamander
沙羅曼蛇 (AC) コナミ アーケード
Saramanda (AC) A-ke-do
(AC) Konami Arcade
PCB JAMMA -- Ver 1 -- Horizontal and Vertical Shoot'em-up
04-07-1986 -- Code? -- ¥0.00
Unknown
2/2

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Life Force (lifefrce) US (Same as Japanese version of Life Force but with Salamander 'just pick the weapons straight up')

Life Force (lifefrcj) Japan (Gradius style weapons selection)

I first see this game in Edminton Arcade way back in 1987, I never played it that day (I was quite poor then and was only 13 years old) but I watched others play the game and you had clear speech, excellent music, wonderful graphics and it was two players at once. I thought to myself "games can't get better than this".

Here's a just for fun Japanese Salamander Arcade machine icon, this was based on the original operators manual line art and Konaken's art work for the marquee colours.

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US Cabinet

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