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Game ID: GX387 Main CPU: Zilog Z80 3.072 Mhz) Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 1.78975 Mhz) Sound Chips: (2x) General Instrument AY8910 1.78975 Mhz), (6x) RC 1.78975 Mhz) Players: 2 Control: 8-Way Joystick Buttons: 2 → Laser, Bomb TRIVIA Scramble was released in February 1981 in Japan. Most of these machines were uprights, but there were several cocktail units made as well. The industry later forgot about lefties altogether and went completely right handed. It has fire buttons on both sides of the panel, so it can be played either left handed or right handed. The control panel is aluminium, and it has a mostly yellow design, with game instructions and a red ball-top 8-Way leaf switch joystick mounted centrally. The marquee has a roundish 'Scramble' logo, with some sort of space castle in the background. This title features rather primitive painted sideart that only uses two colours, but it makes up for it with the impressive comic-book style art on the control panel and monitor bezel. Most cabinets have straight up and down marquees, so Stern ones are easy to spot. It featured a monitor that was set back at a 45 degree angle, and a very large marquee that was angled towards the player. TECHNICAL The Scramble cabinet was the same basic cabinet design that Stern used for all its games.

Scramble is rightly considered to be a classic and was the world's first ever 'multi-level' shoot-em-up.

Fuel usage increases as the game progresses, until fuel usage actually outstrips the amount of fuel dumps available and the game becomes impossible.

The fuel dumps are of particular importance, as the player ship's fuel gauge constantly depletes as the player progresses through the game and the only way to re-fuel is by bombing the fuel tanks that are located on the ground throughout the levels. The blaster is forward-firing only while the bombs drop downwards to target ground-based enemy installations and to collect fuel from fuel dumps. The Scramble ship is armed with both a blaster and bombs. Contact with any scenery, ground installations, enemy ships or projectyles results in an instant loss of life. Scramble is a sideways scrolling shoot-em-up in which a single player takes control of a spaceship and must try to fight through six different enemy-packed levels - destroying as many fuel tanks and ground intallations as possible - before reaching the enemy base and destroying it. Arcade Video game published 42 years ago: Scramble © 1981 Konami Industry Company, Limited.