MX 5000

             

              Manufacturer: Konami
              Year: 1987

Descpription: Pilot a jet fighter in this vertical scrolling
shoot-em-up. Fire missiles at aircraft and bomb ground targets.
Features end-of-level bosses, good music, digitized speech,
big explosions, and lots of power-ups.

The game is good looking graphically but features a jerky
looking scrolling background. It's quite tough to play and
looks more like a 1990's shoot-em-up than a late 80's game.

It's a small sized PCB, approximately six inches square, and
features a large number of Konami custom chips, similar in
look to "Rush 'n' Attack." The digitized speech, apart from
'congratulations', is really hard to understand.