• Radar Scope is a 1980 shoot 'em up arcade game developed by Nintendo R&D2 and published by Nintendo. The player assumes the role of the Sonic Spaceport...
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    ASV-scopes or L-scopes, although the naming was not universal. Size of A-scope displays vary, but 5 to 7 inch diagonal was often used on a radar display...
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  • to salvage unsold arcade cabinets following the failure of Nintendo's Radar Scope (1980), and was designed for Nintendo of America's audience. Hiroshi...
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  • of money at a time when it was already having financial difficulties. Radar Scope was one of the first arcade games released by Nintendo. It was released...
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    total. Nintendo entered the arcade video game market with Sheriff and Radar Scope, released in Japan in 1979 and 1980 respectively. Sheriff, also known...
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  • company in Japan, and then betting his small company on a huge order of Radar Scope with disastrous reception. This failure prompted the parent company's...
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  • as a radar data processor associates the reply information with the proper primary target and displays it next to the target on the radar scope. The equipment...
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  • Donkey Kong to salvage unsold arcade cabinets following the failure of Radar Scope (1980). It was a major success and was followed by the sequels Donkey...
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    Arcade shooters with a 3D third-person perspective include Nintendo's Radar Scope (1979), Atari's Tempest (1981), Nihon Bussan's Tube Panic (1983), Sega's...
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    Precision approach radar or PAR is a type of radar guidance system designed to provide lateral and vertical guidance to an aircraft pilot for landing...
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  • devices that reflect or re-reflect radar energy back to the radar to produce false target returns on the operator's scope. Mechanical jamming devices include...
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    "identify". When ground-based radar equipment receives the IDENT bit, it results in the aircraft's blip "blossoming" on the radar scope. This is often used by...
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  • fixed shooter with a slightly tilted perspective, similar to Nintendo's Radar Scope from 1980. The game was ported to the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit computers...
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    sprites over a scrolling background. It became the basis for Nintendo's Radar Scope and Donkey Kong arcade hardware and home consoles such as the Nintendo...
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    AN/APQ-120 (category Aircraft radars)
    pattern C-scope (Track)-Target dot, range rate circle and dot, artificial horizon line Fixed Range Marker: 25-mi markers on 100 and 200-mi scales Radar Frequency...
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  • later arcade and console systems, including the arcade hardware for Radar Scope (1980) and Donkey Kong (1981) as well as the Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment...
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    Sheriff. He first helped the company develop a game after the 1980 release Radar Scope. The game achieved moderate success in Japan, but by 1981, Nintendo's...
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  • pseudo-3D perspectives at the time. Nintendo's attempt at the genre, Radar Scope (1980), borrowed heavily from Space Invaders and Galaxian, but added...
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    symbolizes the radar scope (circle portion of symbol) oscilloscope radar (O-scope) used to determine a target's range from the radar antenna (the two...
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    MiG-23 replaced the head-down radar scope with an ASP-23D gunsight/head-up display (HUD) onto which data from the radar was displayed. This was updated...
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    limits its scope. Primary radar operation is based on the principle of echolocation. Electromagnetic pulses of high power emitted by the radar antenna are...
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    H2S was the first airborne, ground scanning radar system. It was developed for the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command during World War II to identify targets...
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  • Brown Book Group, Hachette Book Group. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-4721-1881-3. Radar Scope owed much to the popularity of Space Invaders and Galaxian, but nevertheless...
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    indicator in addition to an E-scope to indicate height, the P-12 could integrate track information from an additional radar with both sets of information...
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    A pulse-Doppler radar is a radar system that determines the range to a target using pulse-timing techniques, and uses the Doppler effect of the returned...
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    Arakawa to head the new American operation. Their Japanese hits such as Radar Scope, Space Fever, and Sheriff did not achieve the same success in the United...
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    animated starfield background. This provided the basis for Nintendo's Radar Scope (1980) arcade hardware, which they co-developed with Ikegami Tsushinki...
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    sprites over a scrolling background, which became the basis for Nintendo's Radar Scope and Donkey Kong arcade hardware and home consoles such as the Nintendo...
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    blotches on the radar scope. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has pictures of the Charleston, SC, WSR-57 radar image of the 1989...
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    F-105Fs were modified under project Commando Nail with an R-14A radar and a radar scope that offered high resolution. These aircraft were used for all-weather...
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