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For other uses, see Scramble. Scramble Developer(s) Konami Publisher(s) Stern (North America) Compu-Games A/S (Europe) Artic (Asia) Release date(s) March, 1981 1981 1981 Genre(s) Horizontal scrolling shooter Mode(s) Up to 2 players, alternating turns Platform(s) Arcade game Input 8-way joystick, 2 buttons Arcade cabinet Upright Arcade CPU(s) Zilog Z80 @ 3.072MHz Zilog Z80 @ 1.78975MHz Arcade sound system(s) 2x AY8910 @ 1.78975MHz Scramble (スクランブル, sukuranburu?) is a 1981 horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up, arcade game. It was developed by Konami, and manufactured and distributed by Stern in North America. It is considered as the world's first ever 'multi-level' shoot 'em up[1]. Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Legacy 3 Legal history 4 Trivia 5 Notes and references 6 External links Gameplay The player controls a spaceship and has to guide it across a scrolling terrain, battling obstacles along the way. The ship is armed with a forward-firing weapon, and bombs; each weapon has its own button. The player must avoid colliding with the terrain and other enemies, while simultaneously maintain its limited fuel supply, which diminishes over time. More fuel can be acquired by destroying fuel tanks in the game. The game is divided into six sections, each with a different style of terrain and different obstacles. There is no intermission between each section; the game simply scrolls into the new terrain. Points are awarded based upon the number of seconds of being alive, and on destroying enemies and fuel tanks. In the final section, the player must destroy a "base". Once this has been accomplished, a flag denoting a completed mission is posted at the bottom right of the screen, and the game continues by returning you to the first section again, with a slight bit more difficulty. Legacy Scramble was cloned to many of the computer systems and game consoles of the time. Its direct sequel was the notoriously difficult helicopter game, Super Cobra. Scramble is being released on September 6th, 2006 for Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 [2]. With the release of Gradius Generation for the Game Boy Advance in 2001, Scramble was retroactively added to the Gradius series and is officially referred to as the first game in the series. This is evident in a traditional Gradius introduction sequence where a pictorial history of previous games is displayed. (However, Super Cobra, via its exclusion, is apparently not considered part of the Gradius series, despite being a sequel to Scramble). Legal history Scramble was the subject of an important court case in the field of Intellectual Property, specifically copyrights. In Stern Electronics, Inc. v. Kaufman, 669 F.2d 852, the Second Circuit held that Stern could copyright the images and sounds in the game, not just the source code that produced them. Trivia A Scramble unit appears in the 1983 movie Joysticks. In 1982, R. Cade and the Video Victims recorded a song titled "Scramble", and released it on the little-known album Get Victimized!. Notes and references (2006) Gradius Portable Official Guide. Konami. ISBN 4-86155-111-0. External links Scramble at the Arcade History Database The KLOV entry on Scramble Gradius series Principal titles: Scramble | Gradius | Salamander | Gradius II | Gradius III | Salamander 2 | Gaiden | Gradius IV | Galaxies | Gradius V Related titles: Life Force | Gradius 2 | Gofer no Yabō Episode II | Cosmic Wars | Nemesis | Nemesis II | Solar Assault | NEO | NEO Imperial Parodius series: Parodius | Parodius Da! | Gokujō Parodius! | Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius | Sexy Parodius | Paro Wars Soundtracks: Gradius III | Gradius IV | Gradius Arcade Soundtrack | Salamander Arcade Soundtrack | Gradius V See also: Vic Viper | Pentarou | Upa | List of Gradius titles  This arcade game-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.  This shooter game-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.  This Konami-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Search Term: "Scramble_%28arcade_game%29" Categories: Articles partially converted to Infobox CVG | 1981 arcade games | Arcade games | Gradius | Commodore VIC-20 games | PlayStation games | PlayStation 2 games | Scrolling shooters | Stern games | Vectrex games | XBLA 360 games | Arcade game stubs | Shooter game stubs | Konami stubs

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