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Mad Gear Mad Gear - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

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Description

A car shaped player moves along a track between checkpoints meanwhile bumping other cars to the side or jumping on or over them. It is necessary to collect fuel cans and to jump across gaps in the road to keep on driving.

Mad Gear was produced by Capcom in 1989.

Capcom released 228 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Capcom was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Capcom during the time period Mad Gear was produced include: F-1 Dream, CP System I, Daimakaimura, Capcom Bowling, Forgotten Worlds, Capcom Baseball, Area 88, Code Name: Viper, Adventure Quiz Capcom World, and Buster Bros.

Mad Gear
Mad Gear

Specs

Name Mad Gear
Developer Capcom (Japan)
Year 1989
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8487
Class Wide Release
Genre Racing
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 1 [Jump]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Play

A modern version of Bump 'n' Jump.

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

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Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

The game offers you the option of 2 cars and a semi truck. You have to play through the game twice in order to finish it. To really rack up your score, play the first time around as the truck and the second time around as either the muscle car or the dragster. For each stage you clear, your time is recorded. When playing the second time around, the faster cars will net you a bonus for beating your original time.

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Trivia

Capcom later used the title of this game as the name of the street gang you fight in the Final Fight series.

Miscellaneous

Japanese version of LED Storm.

The title screen displays a copyright date of 1989 but the high score screen says 1988.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mad Gear Census

There are 14,717 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,456 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,294 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 14 known instances of this machine owned by Mad Gear collectors who are active members. Of these, 14 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Mad Gear. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Mad Gear circuit board set.

This game ranks a 6 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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