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Pickin'

Manufacturer: Valadon Automation
Year: 1983
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Labyrinth/Maze
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: unique
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Buttons: 1

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Pickin' Description

You must move all the colored blocks into the same color corral. Avoid hitting the Disrupter and the Killer.

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Cheats, Tricks and Bugs

If the game is set to free play and five pickers, the game will not take away a picker when you die.

Conversion

With a little bit of hacking, this game can be played on Bagman hardware. The games share the same hardware resources, but required slightly different memory maps.

Game Play

You need to get all of the like-colored blocks into their matching corrals. Each time a corral is completed 500 points are added to the bonus, and the player is given a net block which may be used to temporarily trap the Disruptor or Killer. When all of the blocks are in the proper locations, the level ends, an the player is awarded the remaining bonus. If the Picker collides with the Disrupter or Killer, you lose a life. The Disruptor moves around randomly picking up and moving blocks, and will often undo your work. The Killer can only kill you, but only appears when there is no bonus remaining. Neither the Picker nor the Disrupter may move though a block, while carrying a block, but the player still dies if he collides with the Disrupter when both are carrying blocks. The Transposer is simply a pest in that it will move you to a different part of the screen if it touches you. For a limited time after the transposer moves you, you are invincible. After levels three and six, there is a little bonus game where the Picker slides tiles to unscramble a picture.

Miscellaneous

Unlike Bagman, this game was likely not licensed by Stern or Konami.

Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)

Rare - There are 2 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 2 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 52,016 video games (3,347 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 3 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 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.

Trivia

A high score of over 58,000 points was established for this game at the 2001 Twin Galaxies - Funspot World Arcade Game Championships.

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