Moon Cresta (ムーンクレスタ)

Released in 1980

Member Rating

(4 total votes)

Manufacturer: Nichibutsu

Developer: Nichibutsu

Distributor: Nichibutsu

Mame ROM Info

mooncrgx, Moon Cresta (bootleg on Galaxian hardware)
mooncrst, Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu)
mooncrsg, Moon Cresta (Gremlin)
mooncrsb, Moon Cresta (bootleg set 1)
mooncrs2, Moon Cresta (bootleg set 2)

Display Raster	Orientation Vertical
Resolution 224 x 256	Colors 97, Color
Genre Shooting	Attributes Space
Controls 3 Buttons
Size/Weight of Cocktail 23.7500 " x 33.0000" x 21.2500" Size/Weight of Upright 70.9000 " x 24.8000" x 31.1000"

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Game Summary

Space - Shoot the aliens, dock the ships

Hardware Info

Z80 cpu @ 3.072 Mhz
Custom audio

Hardware Platform: Galaxian hardware

Game Details

Moon Cresta would have been a rather unmemorable game were it not for the docking sequences that punctuate the blasting action. Unlike most shoot-em-ups, that have a number of seperate lives, Moon Cresta had three stages of the one ship. The first stage could only fire a single shot, but after 2 waves of Cold Eyes, and 2 waves of Super Flies, the first stage can dock with the second stage to give greater firepower. After waves of Four-Ds and meteors, the third stage can be docked with, to give the player a maximum of five shots at one time. All three docked stages were commonly called the "Christmas Tree". Despite the increase in firepower, the three stage Moon Cresta ship is cumbersome, and makes avoiding aliens and bullets a bit difficult. Often found in cocktail tabletop form.

Coinop.org Member Ratings / Comments

by MoonCresta. Comment: "I recently purchased a cocktail version of Moon Cresta. I remember playing this game as a kid and I really enjoyed it. I like the graphics and the audio. One question I have about the game play relates to a generally square shaped graphic that appears on the screen during the docking sequence. Can anybody tell me what this graphic is for?" (2007-04-13 11:52:02Z)

by videodan. Comment: "I remember finding MC in an arcade in the late 80s and thinking 'What?! This is just like Eagle!' It was the only time I saw/played an actual MC, then I found it in an Ultra-Cade machine a year ago. Great game!" (2005-11-25 10:37:02Z)

by SpacedInvader69. Comment: "Moon Cresta is the Most Intense Shoot Em Up Game of the 80's. The game is best in the later levels when one shot is all you have to make it through the onslaught of aliens. No patterns like Pac-Man, no unlimited extra lives like Asteroids. Just you against the universe..................High Score 250,500 " (2003-02-27 01:08:47Z)

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Knowledge Base

Arcade PCB Pinouts
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O-Taito is the Old Taito pinout on wiretap. N-Taito is the New-Taito pinout (Like Elevator Action). Quote by R. Schieve: "Taito.pin will match most for power, ground, monitor, and speaker connections but inputs are usually quite different." DECO/Data East is the Data East pinout. See Ring King.pin or KarateChamp.pin.I AtariV is Black Widow and Gravitar and Space Duel Konami if the Konami pinout. See Konami\Rush'n'Attack.pin. BZone is Battle Zone and Red Baron Tehkan games seem to follow th
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Submitted by Unknown Gremlin/Sega EPROM / Board Numbers Manual Part Numbers: ------------------- Head-On 420-0193 Gee Bee 420-0199 Monaco GP 420-0358 Head On 2 / Invinco 420-0359 Astro Fighter 420-0410 or 420-0411 Carnival 420-0498 Moon Cresta 420-0518 Space Firebird 420-0533 Astro Blaster 420-0552 Space Tactics 420-0556 Pulsar 420-0601 G08 Color X/Y 420-0605 Spac
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/moon_cresta.txt
MOON CRESTA ----------- CKT SIDE COMP SIDE ---------- ---------- 1 GND A GND 2 GND B GND 3 +5V C +5V 4 +5V D +5V 5 E 6 F 7 H 8 COIN J COIN 9 SVC
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/frogger_22.txt
MOON CRESTA CKT SIDE COMP SIDE ---------- ---------- 1 GND A GND 2 GND B GND 3 +5V C +5V 4 +5V D +5V 5 E 6 F 7 H 8 COIN J COIN 9 SVC K RESET 1
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Galaxian Memory Map
Galaxians hardware info ----------------------- Compiled from information provided by friends and Uncles on RGVAC. AAAAAA 111111AAAAAAAAAA DDDDDDDD Schem function HEX 5432109876543210 R/W 76543210 name 5000-57FF 01010AAAAAAAAAAA R/W DDDDDDDD !Vram Character ram 5800-583F 01011AAAAAAAAAAA R/W DDDDDDDD !OBJRAM Screen attributes 5840-585F 01011AAAAAAAAAAA R/W DDDDDDDD !OBJRAM Sprites 5860-5FFF 01011AAAAAAAAAAA R/W DDDDDDDD !OBJRAM Bul
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Note: The information and links on this page might get moved around quite a bit before things get all sorted out. I'm just going to start putting up all kinds of information that I've had archived away, so please pardon the mess! :) Identifying Unknown Board Sets Back in 1994, Rick Schieve wrote an article about how to
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FAQ: Conversion v1.1
COPYRIGHT 1994 REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 REVISION DATE: 02 November 1994 REVISION HISTORY: 1.1 (02/11/94 - Clarified technical details in {6.4}, Added a few words on manuals in {7.3} and analog controllers in {8.1.3}) REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (01/11/94 - First public release; FTP only) CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir THANX TO: Wayne Aiken, Graham Bisset, Duncan Brown, David Hanes, Tony Jones, John Keay, Patti Ozd
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/pinouts/pinout_help.txt
---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------. Title : Arcade Game Pinouts : Date : 09-January-2003 : Source : taken from the Conversion FAQ v1.1 : by Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir : and pinout identification by Tim Lindquist : -------------------------------------
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/kb_dl.aspx/KB/gametech/conversion_faq_v1.1.txt
1.0) Conversion FAQ: -------------------- COPYRIGHT 1994 REVISION NUMBER: 1.1 REVISION DATE: 02 November 1994 REVISION HISTORY: 1.1 (02/11/94 - Clarified technical details in {6.4}, Added a few words on manuals in {7.3} and analog controllers in {8.1.3}) REVISION HISTORY: 1.0 (01/11/94 - First public release; FTP only) CREATED BY: Doug Jefferys, Steve Ozdemir THANX TO: Wayne Aiken, Graham Bisset, Duncan Brown, David Hanes, To
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