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Journey |
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Manufacturer:
Bally Midway Year: 1983 Class: Wide Release Genre: Platform Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Alternating Control Panel Layout: Single Player Controls:
Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp) |
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DescriptionYou must recover the instruments for the five members of the rock band Journey. Characters have black and white digitized faces. Plays many Journey songs, including a tape of Separate Ways. Bonus round: you (the roadie) must push fans away from the concert stage.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationThe front of the machine, including the marquee, monitor glass, and control panel overlay, look like the Journey "Frontiers" album (the head of a blue space alien). The side art is the same.Game IntroductionThe musicians have Sixteen-style black and white photograph faces connected to cartoon bodies.The game opens with all members: Steve Perry, Neal Schon, Steve Smith, Jonathan Cain and Ross Valory jumping into their Journey "Scarab vehicle", which flies into the forehead of the big blue face wearing a space helmet. The player then gets to choose one of five planets to travel to. Each one features a game starring one of the Journey members in which he has to travel past obstacles to collect his musical instrument. Once they collect their instruments, the board changes and the rock musician uses his instrument to shoot his way back to the Scarab vehicle.After the player has makes it past the first five planets, Journey performs in a live concert before a captive audience, while the player controls "Herbie" the roadie, who tries to keep crazy "groupoids" from attacking the famous rock combo. Game PlayThere are five separate games -- one for each band member -- plus a bonus round game. Each game has two phases: Recovering the musical instrument, and returning to the Scarab vehicle.The games are as follows:
Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Common - There are 29 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 26 of them are original dedicated machines, 0 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 3 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 13 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records. Wanted - There are 9 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. TechnicalWiring harness is almost identical to TRON (except for joystick/wheel). I believe all MCR boardsets have the exact same POWER, VIDEO, AUDIO, COINDOOR pinouts. This wiring type should be referred to as MCRII/III.TriviaThe game was designed by Marvin Glass & Associates. It was the first arcade game that was created around a rock band (the band members were big video game fans themselves during that era) and the first to use digitized graphics (black/white).Most of the game's sounds and music is generated by two AY-3-8910 chips. During the bonus round, a cassette player inside the machine plays a loop tape of Separate Ways (Worlds Apart). Electronic Journey songs include: Chain Reaction, Do not Stop Believin', Lights, Still They Ride, Stone In Love and Wheel In The Sky. Originally, this game was not to have the band Journey in it. It would have a digital camera (created by Ralph Baer, the creator of the Magnavox Odyssey home console systems) that would take a picture of the player's face and put it on the character. After some people used unmentionable parts of their body as character heads during tests, this was dropped. eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Journey 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 Bally Midway. 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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