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Smash TV is the 1990 Williams arcade game where a TV game show pays contestants to survive rooms full of armed thugs, and this Pandora Game Console package plays the real arcade version. Eugene Jarvis, who made Robotron, designed it with Mark Turmell, and you can tell. It is Robotron with a studio audience.
The show is set in a grim future, very much in the Blade Runner mood, and the host loves every second of it. You fight from room to room, grab cash and prizes, and meet bosses like Mutoid Man at the end of each arena. The arcade sound is clear and loud, host lines included.
Smash TV is a twin-stick shooter from before anyone called it that. One joystick walks, the other shoots, and they are completely independent, so you can run left while firing right or circle a crowd while spraying it. On a gamepad that never felt right. On a Pandora Game Console panel the two arcade sticks sit side by side, which is close to how the cabinet was laid out.
The cabinet also let two players fight at once, and so does the game here.
Smash TV is on the Midway Arcade & Monsters Game Archive Card, the first card the builder offers. That card is a Midway and Williams night out: Total Carnage, Gauntlet and Gauntlet 2, Rampage, Arch Rivals, Spy Hunter, Primal Rage, Hydro Thunder, Wizard of Wor and WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade Game. Click for Game List to read the whole card.
"No Game Card - YOU WONT HAVE ANY GAMES!" is the other choice for that slot. Pick it and the console has nothing to run, because we ship it without any software installed.
For hardware you can choose the Pandora Single Panel, the Pandora Dual Panel or the Pandora Wireless 2 Joystick Separated Edition.
The second archive slot offers 3 and 4 Player Arcade Games, Mario Kart Madness & Friends, Run & Gun, Neo Geo, Retro Arcade and 3D Fighting. The third slot offers most of the same cards. Both can be set to No Additional Game Archive. If you like Smash TV, the Run & Gun card is the natural second pick.
The choices are Default Pandora Platinum Hardware, Upgrade to Sanwa Buttons, Upgrade to Sanwa Joysticks and Upgrade to Sanwa Joysticks & Buttons. Smash TV barely uses the buttons, so if you only upgrade one part for this game, make it the joysticks.
The videos on this page show it running on the console.
**Pandora Game Console consoles do not come with any pre-installed licensed or unlicensed software. Any Added Archive service is provided as-is with no implied warranties or licenses. Performance of archive has been tested and will work with your Pandora Platinum Pro version console. Adding an archive card constitutes your acknowledgement of ownership of original licensed hardware/software and your request of the service permits us to perform archiving for you on your behalf as a service.
Imitators copy the look. They can’t copy the board, the curated game archives, the Lifetime Mainboard Warranty or real US SUPPORT. Every Pandora Game Console ships with genuine arcade-grade parts.
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**Pandora Game Console consoles do not come with any pre-installed licensed or unlicensed software. Any Added Archive service is provided as-is with no implied warranties or licenses. Performance of archive has been tested and will work with your Pandora Platinum Pro version console. Adding an archive card constitutes your acknowledgement of ownership of original licensed hardware/software and your request of the service permits us to perform archiving for you on your behalf as a service.
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There’s a reason arcade owners buy from us, and it isn’t the sticker on the box.
Arcade joysticks and buttons out of the box, with an optional upgrade to official Sanwa parts.
The Pro board upscales decades of classics to a sharp HDMI picture on a modern TV. VGA monitors work too.
High-speed GameCraZE archive cards, sorted by genre, and the supported list keeps growing.
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