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ZACCARIA

Natale Zaccaria & f.lli (=bros.), Calderara di Reno (BO)

Zaccaria was, for a long time, the 4th pinball manifacturer of the world, after Williams, Gottlieb and Bally. In the 1981 they made the first italian arcade. Zaccaria games were exported on a large number of countries, including USA.

Zaccaria was founded by brothers Marino, Franco and Natale and went out of business in 1988. The factory was bought by MR. GAME, a. pinball manifacturer . Now the Zaccaria brothers manage a videogames and pinball distributor located in the Republic of San Marino.

Name	Year	Clone?	Original name	Original manifacturer	Dumped?	Emulated?
TV Game	1974	?
TV Joker	1974	?
Off Limits	1976	•		TBM
Sea Battle	1976	•		Ramtek
Circus	1977	•		Atari
The Invasion	1978	•	Space Invaders	Taito
Dodgem	1978	•		Atari	•	•
Galaxia/Super Galaxian	1979	•	Galaxian	Namco
Asteroid/Asterock	1979	•	Asteroids	Atari
Phoenix	1980			Centuri
Space Pirates	1980	•	Rip Off	Cinematronics
Stellar Castle	1980	•	Star Castle	Cinematronics	•	•
Quasar	1980				•
Vanguard	1981	•		SNK
Astrowars	1981	•	Astro Blaster	Sega
Scorpion	1981				?
Laser Battle	1981				•
Penta	1982	•	Pengo	Sega	•	•
Eyes	1982	•		Techstar
Cat and Mouse	1982				•
Tron	1983	•		Bally/Midway
Arcade Super-Reflex	1983 ?			AEA
Money Money	1983				•	•
Shooting Gallery	1984				?
Safari	1984	•	Portraits	Olympia
Jack Rabbit	1984				•	•

For a complete list of Zaccaria arcade videogames, see http://www.zaccaria.org.uk/

MAME includes five drivers to emulate original-hardware Zaccaria games:
- the"quasar.c" driver emulates oldest games with Z80 CPU and Signetics chip, at the moment Quasar only;
- the"zac2650.c" driver emulates older games equipped with 2650 CPU, The Invadera, Super Invader Attack and Dodgem;
- the"galaxia.c" driver does not work;
- the"laserbat.c" driver emulates newer games with Signetics 2560 CPU. Laser Battle and Cat'n Mouse are working, Astro Wars and Shooting Gallery aren't included.;
- the"quasar.c" driver emulates newer games with Z80 CPU, Money Money and Jack Rabbit.
Scorpion and the remaining clones run on non-original hardware.

TV Joker

A sort of electronic soccer similar to Pong. It isn't emulable because it lacks a CPU.
It can be a version of Hockey (Ramtek).

Pictures taken from a flyer found at Arcadeflyers

Sea Battle

From an original made by Ramtek. The presence of a CPU is unknown.

Pictures taken from a flyer found at Arcadeflyers

Galaxia / Super Galaxian

Clone of Galaxian.

AstroWars

A version of Astro Blaster with 2650/2636 CPU.

The MAME driver is unable to make it start at this time.

Penta

Bootleg of Pengo emulated in MAME.

Quasar (1981)

Space Shoot-em-up, four stages. Designed by Zelco (Zaccaria ELectronic COmpany?). USA distribuition: US Billiards.
The first original italian arcade!

First official version: 0.80
First two levels are playable. In the third level the ship does not advance - it should do every time the ship hits the quasar's "eye" - and the tunnel goes tighter too quickly. Failure is unavoidable, and causes a return to the first level.
Sound emulation appears to be preliminary.

The flyer can be found at Arcadeflyers.com

Scorpion

This game runs on Scramble hardware and is emulated in MAME 0.90.

MAME emulates also a Dorneer bootleg running on Moon Cresta hardware.

Laser Battle (1982)

A space battle similar to Scorpion, featuring a four-direction shooting space module.
It was distribuited - and re-engineered - in the USA by Bally-Midway as Lazarian.

Reip added this to the Quasar driver, unfortunately the PROMs are not well-dumped, so the colors are wrong and some enemy shots are drawed in black resulting to be invisible.

Shooting Gallery

A first-person shooting game in four screens.
It has been emulated thanks to a newly found PCB, and it will be included in MAME 110.

This game was developed by Seatongrove of UK, and runs on Nintendo's Donkey Kong hardware.
Zaccaria bought distibuition rights.

Cat and Mouse

A cat must throw stones against supermices, to entrap them in holes. The supermices, a dog and a old lady with a broom are all deadly opponents.

The screenshot to the left was found in a flyer taken from Arcadeflyers
For a lot of pictures and info go to Vernimark

Included in MAME 104. Colors are wrong, sound is missing.

And here is a picture of the PCB with the four Signetics chips.

Money Money

Collect money jumping on roofs, driving a car, but beware the thieves.

Jack Rabbit

From the famous Disney movie. Same perspective of Q*Bert.

Screenshot taken from Vintage Gaming Network