Arcade Video game published 34 years ago:

Super Spacefortress Macross (c) 1992 Banpresto.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz) Sound Chips: YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz), (2x) OKI6295 (@ 24.242 Khz)

Players: 2 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in September 1992 in Japan.

This game is known in Japan as "Chou-zikuu Yousai Macross" (translates from Japanese as 'Super Space Fortress Macross').

Superdimensional Fortress Macross was created as a filler show. Studio Nue was building up to make a series called Superdimensional Cavalry Southern Cross, but they released Macross first. It proved to be their biggest hit, so popular that they extended it from 24 to 35 episodes. They followed up with Superdimensional Century Orguss, which didn't do quite as well, but was still popular enough to spawn a six OVA sequel (Orguss II) in the early 90s. Ironicly, Southern Cross did poorly and was cancelled after only 23 episodes.

Macross, however, has become a major anime staple. After the original series in 1982, there was a movie released in 1984 called 'Do You Remember Love?' This game is based on that movie. Later came a music special, 'Macross Flashback 2012', and then came 'Macross II' (see the history entry for "Super Spacefortress Macross II" for more details), 'Macross Plus' (1994, four OVAs and one movie), 'Macross 7' (1993, 49 TV episodes, 2 OVAs one movie), and 'Macross 7 Dynamite' (4 OVAs).

Player layout in our catalog: 2P sim.

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Open Play on this page to start Super Spacefortress Macross / Chou-Jikuu Yousai Macross. Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Super Spacefortress Macross / Chou-Jikuu Yousai Macross is filed in our catalog as a 1992 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P sim.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Shooter.

Credit line lists Banpresto as developer.