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Midway Year: 1981 Class: Wide Release Genre: Skill Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Alternating Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous Controls:
Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp) |
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Kick Man DescriptionMove 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.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationYellow and white cabinet. The side-art shows man on a unicycle catching balloons.Game PlayCatch 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.MiscellaneousThe attract screen and marquee show the name as "Kick Man", two separate words.Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Common - There are 28 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 22 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 5 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.Of the 52,013 video games (3,347 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 6 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 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. TechnicalThis game uses the same logic board and power supply as Tron.TriviaAfter 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#kickeBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the Kick Man 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 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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