Arcade Video game published 35 years ago:

Vimana (c) 1991 Toaplan.

Players control their ship over a constantly scrolling background; the scenery never stops moving until the final level is reached. Players have three weapons at their disposal: the standard shot, a charge shot and a bomb weapon.

The standard shot weapon is a twin-shot weapon capable of strengthening in size and power with upgrades. However, the player has to tap the fire button to fire rapidly; once the button is held down, the ship charges a stronger version of the normal shot capable of spreading out across the entire screen in twelve directions. The player’s bomb weapon, the Circle Bomb, encircles the ship once activated and seeks out enemies upon an additional tap of the bomb button.

There are a total of four items for the player to pick up shot strength, circle bomb, points, and and extra life.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID: TP-019

Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz) Sound Chips: YM3812 (@ 3.5 Mhz)

Players: 2 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 3

- TRIVIA -

Vimana was released on June 13, 1991 (Thursday) in Japan. It was licensed to Tecmo for Japanese, to Romstar for US and to Nova Apparate GMBH & Co for Europe distribution.

The game was not good and was one of the rare flop from Toaplan.

Player layout in our catalog: 2P sim.

If you are exploring by feel rather than by title, jump from the tags above into the matching genre rooms, or return to the Arcade hall for the full wall.

Open Play on this page to start Vimana (World, set 1). 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.

Vimana (World, set 1) is filed in our catalog as a 1991 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P sim.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Shooter.

Credit line lists Toaplan as developer.