Mr. Driller

Description

Drill an endless onslaught of blocks underground and make blocks of the same color come together to make them disappear. Find undergrounders for bonus points, and get air capsules to restore your air supply.

Mr. Driller was produced by Namco in 1999.

Namco released 310 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1977. Namco was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Namco during the time period Mr. Driller was produced include: Pinpoint Shot, Tenkomori Shooting, Jackpot, Kosodate Quiz My Angel 3, Derby Quiz - My Dream Horse, Crisis Zone, Rolling eX.tre.me, Tekken Tag Tournament, World Kicks, and Aqua Rush

Specs

Name	Mr. Driller
Developer	Namco (Japan)
Year	1999
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8773
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Puzzle
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right) Buttons: 1 - Drill
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

Welcome to Downtown, a city like no other. One day, colored blocks were popping out of the ground and no one knew what to do! Later, they found out that they needed Mr. Driller, a professional rock buster, to solve the problem and he went underground with his mighty jackhammer!

Select one of two challenges: 2500 ft. (for beginners) or 5000 ft. (for experts) and start drilling! Drill a lot of blocks until you reach the goal! Do not try to hit X-blocks because they consume 250f your air. After four or more X-blocks are together, they will disappear, letting you find an undergrounder for 765 points. You will die when you are squashed by a falling block or you are out of air. Replenish your air by picking up air capsules.

Mr. Driller KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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This game was sold only as a conversion kit.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mr. Driller Census

There are 14,755 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,475 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,460 machines (6,896 unique titles).

Common - There are 28 known instances of this machine owned by Mr. Driller collectors who are active members. Of these, It is an original dedicated machine. One is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 26 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 Mr. Driller circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Mr. Driller.

This game ranks a 7 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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