Lazarus Archive · LZ-04374

Broken Arena

Cobalt Computing, 1983. Game for arcade cabinets.

Description

An arcade sports game by Cobalt Computing, 1983, read from the board’s ROMs.

Provenance

Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Contacts were cleaned before reading. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.

Preservation

Fixity (SHA-256)
22fd4757ff7e5e51cf727df3336511614787db83fe0dd4462e5d5cc34ab74010
Last verified
Sep 23, 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 reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.

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: Cobalt Computing, Broken Arena (1983). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04374.

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