Who is Romstar?Did they make good games?

chris1 · Feb 28, 2003

Who is Romstar?Did they make good games?
Do/did you like them as a company?
What did they have to do with SNK?

I don't know anything about Romstar.
Can someone please explain who Romstar is?

I got this 1 slot Marquee today.
It has Romstar in the right top corner..Rather big.
Did they make cabs?or Games?

I guess they had to be something important to SNK to have their name on a Marquee.

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<small>[ February 28, 2003, 03:07 PM: Message edited by: chris1 ]</small>

JHendrix · Feb 28, 2003

I think it was a name Capcom used to publish under.

Basically I know about them because my father is OBSESSED with this NES game called Thunder & Lightning made by...ROMSTAR.

Peace

JHendrix

rarehero · Feb 28, 2003

black tiger was made under the name i believe.
or the whip kinda castlevania arcade game anyways.

Parallax Abstraction · Feb 28, 2003

Romstar was their own company I believe though I could be wrong. They were just basically an arcade publisher/distributor who did dabble in consoles a little bit, but not much. I don't think they are around anymore. Most companies like Capcom, Konami, SNK, Taito etc. opened up their own American branch offices rather than deal with third parties. Fabtek was another company that operated like Romstar. I think they're both long out of business (died with arcades I'd imagine.)

BioMotor_Unitron · Mar 1, 2003

Nightmare Tony used to work for them. I asked him about a manual for an MVS board that I got that was issued my Romstar, and this was his reply.

Yes, the manual is to the very old 1 slot PCB. Near the end of Romstar's life in Socal, we made a licensing deal with SNK and sold around 8,000 1 slots. That is why you will find some 1 slots with the Romstar serial number sticker. Romstar had some controlloing interest by both Capcom and Taito, but it actually descended from SNK USA.
Tony

Porshapwr · Mar 1, 2003

All very interesting....

leepantalone · Mar 1, 2003

Wasn't Romstar involved with Ikari Warriors? Or was that Tradewest????

How about Time Soldiers??? Was that Romstar too? I can't remember. frown

BioMotor_Unitron · Mar 1, 2003

leepantalone:
Wasn't Romstar involved with Ikari Warriors? Or was that Tradewest????

How about Time Soldiers??? Was that Romstar too? I can't remember.

Tradewest=Ikari Warriors.

Time Soldiers was licensed to Romstar by SNK/Alpha Denshi I believe.

You can look at individual games here: <a href="http://www.klov.com/" target="_blank">Killer List of Video Games</a>

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Lou Gojira · Mar 1, 2003

Romstar released a game on their own called Sky Soldiers, an overhead two-player cooperative shooter where you fly around through time dog-fighting with other planes and such.

They also worked with Technos for the arcade release of Double Dragon II .

Lastly, to my knowledge, they worked with SNK only on Time Soldiers . SNK and Alpha's collaboration was Gang Wars .

MKL · Mar 1, 2003

Lou Gojira:
Romstar released a game on their own called Sky Soldiers, an overhead two-player cooperative shooter where you fly around through time dog-fighting with other planes and such.

They also worked with Technos for the arcade release of Double Dragon II .

Lastly, to my knowledge, they worked with SNK only on Time Soldiers . SNK and Alpha's collaboration was Gang Wars .

Sky Soldiers, Time Soldiers and Gang Wars were all made by Alpha Denshi on SNK hardware. SS and TS were released in the US by Romstar.

chris1 · Mar 1, 2003

Wow!..very interesting indeed.

leepantalone · Mar 1, 2003

There is lots of knowledge in the forum! buttrock buttrock buttrock buttrock buttrock

Parallax Abstraction · Mar 1, 2003

Wow, that's quite something. I didn't know Capcom and Taito had controlling interested in Romstar. It would be interesting to read a little "history of" type thing if any exists on them. They were quite a big deal in the North American arcade market for quite some time...

evil wasabi · Mar 1, 2003

my arcade cabinet that is now a neo had been converrted from a romstar aquajack cabinet.

so it has this big stupid foot rest thing at the bottom because a pedal used to be there.

still got the monitor bezel too.

eight one · May 26, 2003

MKL:

Lou Gojira:
Romstar released a game on their own called Sky Soldiers, an overhead two-player cooperative shooter where you fly around through time dog-fighting with other planes and such.

They also worked with Technos for the arcade release of Double Dragon II .

Lastly, to my knowledge, they worked with SNK only on Time Soldiers . SNK and Alpha's collaboration was Gang Wars .

Click to expand...

Sky Soldiers, Time Soldiers and Gang Wars were all made by Alpha Denshi on SNK hardware. SS and TS were released in the US by Romstar.

Don't forget Sky Adventure, though it actually has SNK on it.

aria · May 26, 2003

My Time Soldiers Cab has Romstar on the Marquee.

It's interesting to note that Romstar had a hand in Caliber 50 (which was one of my favorite Ikari clones)

Ckd N Lkd · May 27, 2003

eight one:

MKL:

Lou Gojira:
Romstar released a game on their own called Sky Soldiers, an overhead two-player cooperative shooter where you fly around through time dog-fighting with other planes and such.

They also worked with Technos for the arcade release of Double Dragon II .

Lastly, to my knowledge, they worked with SNK only on Time Soldiers . SNK and Alpha's collaboration was Gang Wars .

Click to expand...

Sky Soldiers, Time Soldiers and Gang Wars were all made by Alpha Denshi on SNK hardware. SS and TS were released in the US by Romstar.

Click to expand...

Don't forget Sky Adventure, though it actually has SNK on it.

They also made Twin Cobra!! ONE OF MY fAVS

MKL · May 27, 2003

TheWorm2:

eight one:

MKL:

Lou Gojira:
Romstar released a game on their own called Sky Soldiers, an overhead two-player cooperative shooter where you fly around through time dog-fighting with other planes and such.

They also worked with Technos for the arcade release of Double Dragon II .

Lastly, to my knowledge, they worked with SNK only on Time Soldiers . SNK and Alpha's collaboration was Gang Wars .

Click to expand...

Sky Soldiers, Time Soldiers and Gang Wars were all made by Alpha Denshi on SNK hardware. SS and TS were released in the US by Romstar.

Click to expand...

Don't forget Sky Adventure, though it actually has SNK on it.

Click to expand...

They also made Twin Cobra!! ONE OF MY fAVS

Nah...That was made by Toaplan. Romstar just released it in the US.

Shining Kooksu · May 27, 2003

MKL:

TheWorm2:

eight one:

MKL:

Lou Gojira:
Romstar released a game on their own called Sky Soldiers, an overhead two-player cooperative shooter where you fly around through time dog-fighting with other planes and such.

They also worked with Technos for the arcade release of Double Dragon II .

Lastly, to my knowledge, they worked with SNK only on Time Soldiers . SNK and Alpha's collaboration was Gang Wars .

Click to expand...

Sky Soldiers, Time Soldiers and Gang Wars were all made by Alpha Denshi on SNK hardware. SS and TS were released in the US by Romstar.

Click to expand...

Don't forget Sky Adventure, though it actually has SNK on it.

Click to expand...

They also made Twin Cobra!! ONE OF MY fAVS

Click to expand...

Nah...That was made by Toaplan. Romstar just released it in the US.

Click to expand...

They also published SNK's Baseball Stars II on NES.

chris1 · May 27, 2003

Hey..a "Romstar" Double Dragon 2 Marquee Header Sign ..on Ebay..

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