Super Dead Heat

Super Dead Heat
Developer: Taito Publisher: Taito Platform: Arcade (Custom) Released internationally: October 1985 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has unused graphics.

Taito's four-screen monster of a racing game. Players select one of four different layouts for their monitor's worth of track, and collect power-ups to improve handling, acceleration, top speed, and body strength.

Staff Signatures

There are four names that replace the Taito logo on the high score screen with developer signatures. To enter these, the player must be rank 6 or lower. Enter the first two letters, then step on the gas while entering the third letter.

MTJ	JUN	TOR	HRS
Fukio Mitsuji	Jun Ishioka or Junji Yarita	Tohru Sugawara	Hiroshi Kawakami

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Graphics

An unused "programmer" graphic for the hidden credits.

Two additional MTJ credits, found in the FG/BG and sprite banks respectively. There's no code to display these in-game.

(Source: Original TCRF research)