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Hustle Hustle - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Hustle - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Collect more points than your opponent or, in the one player part, collect more points than penalties. You have 90 seconds.

Hustle was produced by UPL in 1977.

UPL released 34 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1976.

Other machines made by UPL during the time period Hustle was produced include: Blockade, Depthcharge, Blasto, Carnival, Super Moon Cresta, and Space Fire Bird

Hustle - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet

Specs

Name Hustle
Developer UPL
Year 1977
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8158
Class Wide Release
Genre Skill
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
# Simultaneous Players 2
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Competitive
Control Panel Layout Multiple Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Play

Collide with boxes to collect the points shown. Avoid colliding with your opponent, the walls or your own tail. Hitting these will get you penalties in a one-player game, but making your opponent collide will award you points. You have unlimited lives but only 90 seconds.

Hustle KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Hustle 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).

Uncommon - There are 12 known instances of this machine owned by Hustle collectors who are active members. Of these, 9 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Hustle machines for sale.

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

This game ranks a 3 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]

Flyers

Technical

CPU: 8080
SOUND: Samples

Manuals

Foto-Finder® (Books)

  1. Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 58; Color photo

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