Game
Info
Overview
- TAKE-OFF is a clone of the game Rip Off from Cinematronics.
TAKE-OFF was built by the German Company Video Games GmbH in Lich.
Description
- TAKE-OFF is a one or two player action game that offers features
guaranteed to capture and prolong player interest, an acceleratinf
comopetitive level with clearly visible object and a team competition
(against the machine) that allows players to combine scores as well as
skills in defence against the enemy. The center of the playfield is
occupied by a selectable number of fuel cells. The player commandeers a
land craft that can be turned left or right or moved forward. The
players try to protect the fuel cells against the invaders which come
from different sides to steal them, by shooting the invaders or
colliding with them before they can drag the fuel cells off the screen.
As two players can play at the same time together against the computer,
a team cooperation is needed in order to be successful.
Cabinet
Types - Wall Cab, Cocktail (two versions,
'japanese' and
'normal') and an Upright. The upright version has jusr shown up in
November 2007. The cabs were "Universally used Cabs and built by
the Company Wolfgang
Schubecker in Krodorf-Gleiberg (Germany).
PCB(s)
- The CPU
is almost a one2one copy of the Cinematronics PCB, only minor
modifications were made in order to accomodate a slightly different
Sound Board. The CPU board is made of far more than a 100 TTL chips,
two 2k Roms and some
TTL PROMS. There is no "CPU" Chip on there, instead some of the TTL
chips form an ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) which performs all the
calculations and input/output. The whole game program is only 8K in
size. The RAM ist 12 bits wide and made by 3 * 9101 static RAM chips.
The smaller PCB is the Sound Board, no large scale integrated chips
(like
synthesizers). The handful of sounds are created by discrete Logic and
their generation is triggered by the CPU via the output registers. On
the sound board located is also a driving circuit for the speaker.
Video Games GmbH needed to add two voltage regulators and the D/A
conversion for the Hantarex XY monitor as it accepted only analog
signals.
Monitor - Monitor was a Hantarex MTRV
black/white XY
Monitor from Italy. 17" was commonly used.
Clone of - RipOff
(Cinematronics)
Spares
-
Generally have a look
at the "Link
Collection" section to
find sources. I can help out with single items, if you don't find them
elsewhere. A
non conclusive List is in the "Electronics
/ Parts"
section.
Service and
User Guide (1 MByte) - [ 
