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Arkanoid |
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Manufacturer:
Taito Year: 1986 Class: Wide Release Genre: Ball and Paddle Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Alternating Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous Controls:
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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DescriptionThis is a variation on an early ball and paddle video game where the paddle moves left and right at the bottom of the screen and a ball is deflected to hit bricks. Some bricks contain special powers to enhance play. The next level achieved by removing all the bricks.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationMost of these games were sold as conversion kits so the cabinets either have generic Romstar side graphics or no art at all.Game IntroductionIn this game, move a paddle (Vaus) to deflect a ball towards rows of various colored bricks. Some of the bricks have special powers to increase the speed of the ball. Extra points are earned from destroying all of the bricks. This is a color variation of Atari's Breakout.Game PlayThe object of this game is to keep the ball between the Vaus and the bricks.Hacks
MiscellaneousManufacturer: Taito. Licensed to Romstar for US distribution. A bootleg of this game is called Block.Play a JAVA emulated version of the game by visiting http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/JArkanoid.html Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Very Common - There are 173 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 19 of them are original dedicated machines, 67 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 87 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 75 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records. Wanted - There are 7 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. TechnicalThe original does not have a cocktail mode. Bootlegs use DIP switch 1 to enable cocktail mode (screen flips for player 2).TriviaBootleg versions have on-screen copyrights of "Tayto" instead of "Taito". A game called Arkanoid: Doh It Again was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1997. This release contained the original, as well as some new backgrounds an a two-player mode.eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Arkanoid Videogame machine and items related to it.Click here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for machines and parts made by Taito. Alternatively, check out the IAM/KLOV custom report of the hottest coin-op machines on eBay, powered by Ace.com (updated throughoutthe day).
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