Pirate Pete

Manufacturer: Taito
Year: 1982
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Taito Classic
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 1 [Jump/Knife]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Pirate Pete Description

You start as a pirate swinging from ropes on a ship, then you are swimming in the ocean, killing or avoiding sharks. Next, you are running up a hill jumping over or ducking under rocks. During the last level, you save the girl hanging over the large pot of boiling water from two hungry pirates.

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Game Introduction

The differences between this game and Jungle King are the player character is a heroic pirate instead of the Tarzan character, he swings on ropes between ship's masts instead of vines between trees, swims through a shark-infested ocean instead of a crocodile-infested river, the enemies on the fourth level are sword-wielding pirates instead of spear-chucking cannibals and an opening musical theme is used in certain parts of the game instead of the opening Tarzan yell.

Game Play

The game play is exactly the same as Jungle King.

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Jungle King

VAPS Arcade Census

GAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Very Rare - According to a survey conducted by Video Arcade Preservation Society of approximately 910 collectors and their 20,000+ games, there are no known instances of this game owned by a known collector. This does not automatically mean that no examples exist, or even that only one or two machines exist.

Wanted - We currently do not know of any VAPS members that have gotten around to adding this game to their wish list. The wish-list system is fairly new (not all VAPS members have filled one out) and there are probably a number of collectors who might purchase this game if offered one at the right price.

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Trivia

Jungle King, Jungle Hunt, Jungle Boy and Pirate Pete are basically the same game.

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Legacy

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The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 146; Color photo;

Pirate Pete - Title screen image

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