Crater Raider

Crater Raider
Developer: Bally Midway Publisher: Bally Midway Platform: Arcade (Midway MCR III) Released in US: April 1985 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music.

Crater Raider is an action game wherein your tank must battle other tanks to rescue space hostages on Mars or something who may or may not drive tanks.

Not related to Tomb Raider, River Raider, Air Raider, Express Raider, Star Raiders, Oakland Raiders...

Unused Text

Developer Credits

A properly-formatted set of credits are stored in the main CPU at 0x27DB. It's currently unknown if there's any way to display this in-game.

PROGRAMMED BY
     TOM DIDOMENICO
GRAPHICS BY
     SHARON PERRY
SOUNDS BY
     MARK BARTLOW

An additional credit is in the sound CPU at 0x3700:

Robert M Libbe

Sound Test Names

Three additional sound names are in the ROM. These should appear in the Sound Test, but the test is cut off at sound 23.

24  TTY CLATTER
25  TOWER BEAM
26  TIMER WARNING

Unused Graphics

Some sort of electric wall, which would have brought the enemy count up from an impressive two to a staggering three!

Unused Music

A 30-second non-looping version of the game's main theme. This is labeled as "THEME MELODY" in the Sound Test, but while it can be played there the entire track will not play unless this cheat is put into MAME's crater.xml file:

  <cheat desc="Sound Test">
    <script state="run">
      <action>maincpu.pb@F7F1=FF</action>
    </script>
  </cheat>

(Source: Original TCRF research)