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SWAT |
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Manufacturer:
Bally Midway Year: 1984 Class: Wide Release Genre: Shooter Type: Videogame Monitor:
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Alternating Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel) |
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DescriptionManeuver your man to destroy the aliens before they complete a sectional tunnel from the bottom of the screen to the top. If a tunnel is completed, additional enemies appear. Destroy or "shove" tunnel sections off the screen.Know anything more about this game? Cabinet InformationThe cabinet is fairly generic. The marquee shows a close-up image of your futuristic SWAT agent shooting across the marquee at one of the aliens.Game IntroductionDestroy aliens before they complete a tunnel system that connects the top and bottom of the screen together. Destroy or shove blue tunnels or shove pink tunnels to rearrange them and prevent the aliens from completing their mission. Use a "smart bomb" to destroy all enemies, and your own agent if you're not careful, in a large area. Earn additional bombs by destroying blue sections of tunnel. End the round by destroying a preset number of aliens.Game PlayYour man begins each life in the center of the screen. At the top are blue tunnel "sections" and at the bottom are pink ones. Aliens start at the bottom of the screen in the pink sections. As they move through, they can build new sections in any direction.There are four types of enemies:
Your man, a futuristic SWAT agent, can shoot blue tunnel sections to destroy them. Pink tunnels can not be destroyed by your man, but may be "shoved" off the screen by your SWAT agent if he pushes against them and fires. Tunnel sections on the opposite side will whiz off the screen if unobstructed or rest against another tunnel section if one blocks it. Pink blocks which are no longer connected to the bottom turn blue and float toward the top. Your SWAT agent, who rides around the screen on a small hoverboard, begins his mission with a limited number of "bombs" which he can use to destroy all enemies in a large area, including the "indestructible" Anngrers. Additional bombs are earned for every 10 blue tunnel sections destroyed. The round ends when a predetermined number of Blockers are destroyed. Each subsequent round requires a greater number of Blockers to be destroyed to advance to the next round. Your agent loses a life if he is caught by an alien, hit by alien fire, or caught in the blast radius of his own bombs. Only one additional life, if set, can be awarded per game. MiscellaneousThis game is part of the Bally/Midway "Six Pack" games.Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)Rare - There are 2 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 1 of them are original dedicated machines, 0 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 1 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 2 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 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. eBay ListingsClick here to automatically search eBay's Arcade, Jukebox, and Pinball categories for the SWAT 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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