Game: Cabal (bootleg)
Manufacturer: Tad Corporation (original), Red (bootleg)
Year: 1988
Genre: Shoot-em-up
Players: 2 players simultaneously
My Version is: The board only (unknown territory)
Screen Position: Horizontal

GAMEPLAY
There are five levels each with four stages. During the first four stages of each level you must eliminate all enemies, tanks, helicopters, planes and cars. At the end of the fourth stage of each level you will meet a very tough adversary.

You have a constant supply of fire power. Certain objects, when destroyed, will give you bonus items such as extra grenades, bazookas or machine guns.

Hints and Tips Save Grenades for crowds and buildings. Collect extra weapons for better fire power. Blow up all buildings. Blow up trucks before more enemies are introduced. Hide behind barrels and walls etc. Home Versions The following computer formats had versions of Cabal converted by Ocean Software. These were as follows; Spectrum 48/128/+2/+3, Commodore 64/128, Amstrad, Atari ST, Amiga. One major problem with the home versions was with the grenade button. A button on the keyboard was assigned for grenade, but in their infinite wisdom, someone also decided that down and fire would also do the same job meaning that everytime you moved the cursor down with the fire button depressed, you'd end up wasting all your grenades.

Why This is in my Collection I had previously played Cabal on both the Sinclair Spectrum and also on the Amiga (which was nothing short of excellent). I had seen the arcade of Cabal at various locations but was quite disappointed with it as I am sure the Amiga version had better graphics. Until a few weeks back I had no intention of tracking down the PCB, but when it came up for auction on Ebay at £20, I decided that if it stayed at that price I'd get it. 1 minute before the auction ended, I put in a bid at £20 and lo and behold I was the first and only bidder.

Hardware Details

CPU: 68000 @ 12Mhz
Sound: Z80 @ 4.0 Mhz
Sound: YM2151 @ 3.579580Mhz
Colours: 1024 (Dynamic)