Description
An arcade shoot-’em-up by Basalt Games, 1983, read from the board’s ROMs.
Provenance
Brought to a Lazarus rescue day by a former owner. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
b7e58966917ea663d9ebcab1b070d2b53caf414a9b70a09602060d16e08477c8- Last verified
- Oct 9, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ARCADE-6 · lz-arcade core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ARCADE-6, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on arcade cabinets.
Cite as: Basalt Games, Express of the Deep (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04099.