Astro Invader

About

Astro Invader is a shooting arcade game (gallery) released in 1980 by Konami, under licence to Stern Electronics. It can be played by up to 2 players, with joystick 2-way and 1 button. On Tate Café, it is listed under “invaders”.

Summary written automatically from MAME and catver data, without AI.

Technical sheet

MAME short name

astinvad

Year

1980

Genre (catver)

Shooter / Gallery

Screen

raster

Resolution

224 × 256

Refresh rate

60 Hz

Rotation

270°

Players

2

Buttons

1

Controls

joystick 2-way

MAME driver

stern/astinvad.cpp

Added to MAME in

0.31

CPUs

• Zilog Z80 · 2 MHz

Sound chips

• Samples

Versions and clones (5)

• Kamikaze kamikaze · parent
• ▶ Astro Invader astinvad
• Astro Invader (bootleg) astinvadb
• Beta Force betafrce
• Kosmo Killer kosmokil