Allied F-114

Allied Leisure's F-114 flying and shooting game is one of the largest arcade games ever made.  It projects enemy aircraft on the large, curved rear projection screen and your mission is to shoot them down from your swivel seat.

F-114 first appeared in 1975 and it included an 8-track player for background sound effects.  Unfortunately, original tapes for this game are even more rare than the game itself, which probably survives in very few numbers due to its great size.

The tape player looks like an ordinary aftermarket automotive 8-track player.  If the original tape player is missing or unrepairable, it should be a fairly simple process to replace it with another 12 Volt automotive  8-track player.


Thanks to John Robertson for the tape player pictures above

  

So, What About a Tape?

Well, since I don't have access to an original tape of any kind, I made up my own, using a number of sound effects: cockpit engine noise, jet flybys, bombs, sonic booms and ground explosions.  They are mixed together randomly for a duration of nine minutes, nine seconds.  Here is an MP3, encoded at 128 kbps, 44.1 kHz sample rate:
  
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 Cockpit Sound Effects (9:09 duration, 128 kbps stereo, 8.582 Mbytes)

 I admit that I've done this somewhat blind, since I don't have a working F-114 anywhere nearby.  I made some presumptions about how the game plays, and then made up some sound effects that I though would work well.  If anyone has any comments or suggestions, please let me know.

And now, here's an alternate version of the file above, but this time mixed with the audio from one of the dogfight scenes from the movie Top Gun (warning: there's some harsh language):
  

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 Alternate Sound Effects (9:09 duration, 128 kbps stereo, 8.582 Mbytes)

 

 

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