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Beat Head Beat Head - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

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Description

Jump on the tiles that match your color or that have your color and your opponent's color. Jump on enough to fill your spaces before your opponent fills his.

Beat Head was produced by Atari Games in 1993.

Atari Games released 88 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984.

Other machines made by Atari Games during the time period Beat Head was produced include: Space Lords, Moto Frenzy, Arcade Classics, Guardians Of The 'Hood, Relief Pitcher, 3-On-3, Road Riot's Revenge, Cyberstorm, Hard Drivin's Airborne, and World Rally

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Specs

Name Beat Head
Developer Atari Games
Year 1993
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 7068
Class Prototype
Genre Puzzle
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Competitive
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 2 [Short Jump|Long Jump]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Play

Jump on all the tiles that are your color or are two colored (both yellow and blue) before your opponent (player or computer controlled) finishes his. You must win two out of three rounds to go on to the next level.

Beat Head KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 5.00 (1 vote)

Fun Factor: 5.00

Overall Like 5.00
Fun (Social) 5.00
Fun (Solo) 5.00
Collector Desire 5.00

Technical Rating: 5.00

Gameplay 5.00
Graphics 5.00
Originality 5.00
Sound/Music 5.00

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Miscellaneous

This game was never released into full production.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Beat Head Census

There are 14,716 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,455 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,291 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Rare - There are 2 known instances of this machine owned by Beat Head collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Beat Head circuit board for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

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

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Technical

The game suffers from jerky video. It may have needed a more powerful video CPU.

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