A friend was talking to me about the arcade game 1942 when I realized, "Hey! That looks relatively simple to add".
What does a an emulator programmer nerd get up to when there are no plans on a Friday night? Adding a new arcade system of course! It still isn't finished, I have the background layers emulated and just have to add sprites and sound to finish it up. Unlike the System1 arcade system, there are only 4 games for this system, all of them revisions of 1942.
1942 was Capcoms first "hit", released in 1984, it's a vertical shooter that has a pretty good difficulty ramp, decent graphics and good controls. It's set in the World War 2 era, and funnily enough you play as the "allies" flying your "Super Ace" plane to Tokyo to destroy the Japanese air fleet. Why is that funny? Well Capcom is a Japanese company, they are basically making a game about themselves being conquered! I find it funny anyhow. I played it quite a bit at one arcade and got very close to beating it.
This shot shows how I progress through getting the background layers correct. It's only taken about 7 hours to get this far, but I'm glad this system is in RetroCopy, fun game!
Update
2 hours later and now the game is fully playable, just need to add sound now.
