Kick Man

Manufacturer: Midway
Year: 1981
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Skill
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color
The video image is reflected in a mirror.

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

Roller: Optical (left, right only)
Buttons: 1 [Kick]

Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)

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Kick Man Description

Move a man on a unicycle and catch falling balloons and Pac-Men on your head. Use the Kick button to make the character's legs kick out and knock balloons back up for another try. Balloons stack up eight high and then the man will pop them. Stack Pac-Men for bonus points.

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Cabinet Information

Yellow and white cabinet. The side-art shows man on a unicycle catching balloons.

Game Play

Catch falling balloons and Pac-Men on your head. If you miss one, you can try and kick it back up for another try, but if one hits the ground you lose a life. In the bonus round, you try and catch balloons thrown out of windows while dodging the bombs thrown at you.

Miscellaneous

The attract screen and marquee show the name as "Kick Man", two separate words.

VAPS Arcade Census

GAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Common - There are 30 known instances of Kick Man owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 23 of them are original dedicated machines, it is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 6 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,121 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 9 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 Kick Man.

For Sale - There are 4 VAPS members with Kick Man machines for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

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 operators 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.

Technical

This game uses the same logic board and power supply as Tron.

Trivia

After Kick's initial production run, the Pac-Man characters were added to its program code and the game was then retitled Kick Man. This was done in the hopes that the recognition of the famous character would help boost Kick Man sales. http://www.gamearchive.com/articles/ClassicNews/1982/Jan/TimePg54.htm#kick

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