720 Degrees

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Manufacturer: Atari Games
Year: 1986
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Sports
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Medium Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Atari System II
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls:

Joystick: Circular Rotating
Buttons: 2

Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)

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Description

Skate through a ramp-filled world doing jumps for points in this timed game. Buy equipment at shops or enter tournaments to win cash prizes. When time runs out player must "Skate or Die!" -- run to the nearest tournament!

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Cabinet Information

The game speakers were housed inside the boom-box-like marquee at the top of the game. The cabinet was manufactured by Atari in 1987.

Miscellaneous

Converted to Sinclair Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore 64 by US Gold in 1987. All versions featured the arcade soundtrack on the flip-side of the cassette.

Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)

Common - There are 46 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 40 of them are original dedicated machines, 0 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 6 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 17 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

- There are 14 VAPS members currently looking for this game.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operatos might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Trivia

Atari released a limited-edition soundtrack record.

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Manuals

Schematic Package Supplement 31 Pages, 4156 KB File.

Foto-Finder™

The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 197; Color photo;

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