Venus (bootleg of Gyruss)

About

Venus (bootleg of Gyruss) is a shooting arcade game (flying (chase view)) released in 1983, released as a bootleg. It can be played by up to 2 players, with joystick 8-way and 1 button. On Tate Café, it is listed under “scrollers”.

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

Technical sheet

MAME short name

venus

Year

1983

Genre (catver)

Shooter / Flying (chase view)

Screen

raster

Resolution

224 × 256

Refresh rate

60.61 Hz

Rotation

90°

Players

2

Buttons

1

Controls

joystick 8-way

MAME driver

konami/gyruss.cpp

Added to MAME in

0.34b2

CPUs

• Zilog Z80 · 3.07 MHz
• KONAMI-1 · 1.54 MHz
• Zilog Z80 · 3.58 MHz
• Intel 8039 · 8 MHz

Versions and clones (4)

• Gyruss gyruss · parent
• Gyruss (bootleg?) gyrussb
• Gyruss (Centuri) gyrussce
• ▶ Venus (bootleg of Gyruss) venus