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Inferno |
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Manufacturer:
Williams Year: 1984 Class: Wide Release Genre: Scrolling Fighter Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 2 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Joint Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player Controls:
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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DescriptionPlayers walk around a three-quarters perspective maze shooting at various enemies. After shooting an enemy the enemy's "soul" (a dark version of itself) attempts to make its way to the top of the screen to an awaiting monster mouth. The player must touch the enemy soul before it gets there or a more difficult enemy is regenerated.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationThe cabinet is slightly different from a Joust cabinet in that the monitor is tilted back from the player at about a 30 degree angle and the control panel slopes upward further onto the monitor bezel.ConversionA Joust 2 boardset can be converted into an Inferno by swapping ROMs, adding two RAM ICs into available sockets and changing some jumpers. Other games with similar hardware to Joust 2 are Mystic Marathon and Turkey Shoot.Game IntroductionInferno's maze layout is somewhat similar to Crystal Castles, but without the wide changes in maze height. There seems to be only three or four "heights" of the maze, which the player can reach via small stairways.Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Uncommon - There are 7 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 5 of them are original dedicated machines, 0 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 2 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 6 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records. Wanted - There is one VAPS member 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. TriviaThe exact number of manufactured games is unknown, but it is estimated that fewer than 50 of these cabinets were made.eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Inferno 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 Williams. 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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