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Mad Planets


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Mad Planets - Japanese Title

Manufacturer: Gottlieb
Year: 1983
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Space
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

  • Orientation: Vertical
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: Gottlieb
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Description

Destroy Planets before they form floating in space. Pickup stranded floating spacemen. Avoid/Destroy comets.

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Game Play

If planets form, you must destroy orbiting moons before you can destroy the planet. The planet will become a Mad Planet when all the moons that orbit that planet are destroyed. Once it has become mad, you will be hunted and the longer you let the planet hunt you, the faster it moves. Bonus screens are all spacemen with the comet killing you as the end to the bonus round.

Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)

Common - There are 25 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 21 of them are original dedicated machines, 0 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 4 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 14 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 4 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.

Technical

The game uses a 8088 processor for the game as well as a 6502 processor for the sound.

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1. Vintage Arcade Game Poster MAD PLANETS Never Displayed

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4. Gottlieb Mad Planets Control Panel Overlay, CPO

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5. 1983 Gottlieb MAD PLANETS Video Game Flyer - Mint Cond!

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7. Mad Planets Instruction Manual

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  1. The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 155; Color photo;
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