Crater Raider

Crater Raider is an action game wherein space hostages must be rescued on Mars or something. Tank controls! Tank enemies! Tank craters! Tank tank tank.

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

Developer Credits
A properly formatted set of credits are stored in the main CPU at. There may be a way to display this in-game, though the method, if it exists, is unknown. PROGRAMMED BY    TOM DIDOMENICO GRAPHICS BY    SHARON PERRY SOUNDS BY    MARK BARTLOW

An additional credit is in the sound CPU at : 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:

 maincpu.pb@F7F1=FF