Xenophobe

Manufacturer: Bally Midway
Year: 1987
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Midway Mono Board
Number of Simultaneous Players: 3
Maximum number of Players: 3
Gameplay: Either
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way stick with trigger and two thumb buttons [Fire|Special Function 1|Special Function 2]

Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)

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Xenophobe Description

A horizontal monitor is split into three sections, one for each of up to three people. Players wander around a space station shooting as many Ridley-Scott-esque aliens as they can before health or time runs out; then it's off to the next space station. There are multiple weapon types, including a duck gun!

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Cheats, Tricks and Bugs

Cheat - To get an unlimited quantity of grenades, throw one grenade into the next room before you walk in. Some rooms will give you three grenades to pick up when you follow into the room. You then can walk in and out of the room thowing one grenade in and picking three up.

CAPS/VAPS Arcade Census

There are 6,477 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,719 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 61,030 machines (3,625 unique titles).

Common - There are 35 known instances of this machine owned by Xenophobe collectors. Of these, 28 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 6 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

This game ranks a 22 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Wanted - There are 5 VAPS members currently looking for Xenophobe.

This game ranks a 13 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

For Sale - There are 5 VAPS members with Xenophobe machines for sale. There is one VAPS member with an extra Xenophobe circuit board for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them even though 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.
In particular, since VAPS started out focusing on videogames, statistics for other types of machines should not (yet) be an indication of scarcity.
For a clue to value, look at absolute numbers of owners and potential owners above, compare a ratio of how many people want this game vs. how many people have this game (14%) and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

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Xenophobe

1. Xenophobe Parts & Operating Manual
Auction ends in: 1 week, 4 days
eBay Stores (Fixed Price):
$18.00

2. Xenophobe Control Panel Overlay NOS Bally Midway
Auction ends in: 2 weeks, 1 day
eBay Stores (Fixed Price):
$75.00

3. 1987 BALLY MIDWAY XENOPHOBE VIDEO FLYER MINT
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$11.00

4. 1987 MIDWAY XENOPHOBE ORIG VIDEO ARCADE GAME FLYER MINT
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eBay Stores (Fixed Price):
$17.75

5. Bally / Midway XENOPHOBE arcade video game MANUAL book
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6. Original Bally Xenophobe coin-op arcade game manual
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7. XENOPHOBE-Bally/Midway PCB-NON JAMMA-WORKS-L@@K!
Auction ends in: 4 weeks, 14 hours
eBay Stores (Fixed Price):
$44.00

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