Red Alert

About

Red Alert is a shooting arcade game (gallery) released in 1981 by Irem, under licence to GDI. 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

redalert

Year

1981

Genre (catver)

Shooter / Gallery

Screen

raster

Resolution

240 × 256

Refresh rate

60 Hz

Rotation

270°

Players

2

Buttons

1

Controls

joystick 2-way

MAME driver

irem/redalert.cpp

Added to MAME in

0.33b3

CPUs

• MOS Technology 6502 · 781.3 kHz
• MOS Technology 6502 · 1.04 MHz
• Intel 8085A · 6 MHz

Sound chips

• AY-3-8910A PSG · 2.08 MHz
• HC-55516 · 23.4 kHz

Versions and clones (2)

• ▶ Red Alert redalert · parent
• WW III ww3