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Sea Wolf


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Sea Wolf - Japanese Title

Manufacturer: Midway
Year: 1976
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Black and White with a Color Overlay
  • Blue overlay
Conversion Class: Midway 8080
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 1
Gameplay: Single
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:
  • Periscope with button

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Description

Timed submarine game where player looks through a large periscope to aim at ships moving across the top of the screen. Torpedos are launched with a thumb button on the right handle of the scope. Mines floating across the screen can block players torpedoes. Fast-moving PT Boat (worth most points) is hardest to hit. Game ends when time expires. Bonus time is added when player reaches operator-selectable point level.

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Cabinet Information

A blue overlay is used to simulate water. The monitor is mounted flat inside the cabinet (facing upwards) and the image is reflected by a mirror towards the player. If you were to look at the screen directly, everything would appear backwards.

Game Introduction

Players look through a periscope to aim at ships. A targeting cross-hair and the number of torpedos remaining are seen through the scope. When the player has launched five torpedos, a red "RELOAD" light comes on momentarily. These are not shown on the screen, but are back-lit transparencies reflected inside the scope. Likewise, when ships are hit on the screen, an explosion "light" is reflected inside the scope. Torpedos are fired by pressing a thumb-button on the right-hand periscope handle.

Miscellaneous

The most memorable and distinguishing sounds from this game have to be the sonar (piiiing..... piiiing) and the sound of the PT Boat racing across the screen (oscillating, buzzing sound).

Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)

Common - There are 29 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 29 of them are original dedicated machines, 0 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 0 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 16 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 3 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 ROM chips tend to get warm and slightly pop out of their sockets. Random game behavior (strange shapes or garbage on the screen, or a game crash) can usually be cured by gently reseating the chips.

Trivia

The inspiration for this game comes from a very large mechanical game from the mid 60's called "Periscope" by Sega. Periscope was the first game ever to require a quarter for a single play (which set the pricing trend into the video game era).

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Legacy

  1. Sea Wolf
  2. Sea Wolf II

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  1. Arcade Treasures, Kurtz (ISBN 0-88740-619-X): Page: 101; Color photo; Price guide: 1994
  2. The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 38; Color photo;


Sea Wolf - Title screen image


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