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Thief Thief - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Thief - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Players drive a car around a maze collecting greenbacks while being pursued by a number of police cars. Use dollar symbols to make your car invincible and put police cars temporarily out of action. The game uses a continuous loop tape with actual police band radio banter.

Thief was produced by Pacific Novelty in 1981.

Pacific Novelty released 8 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Pacific Novelty was based in United States.

Other machines made by Pacific Novelty during the time period Thief was produced include: Deep Death, Shark Attack, Mr. F. Lea, NATO Defense, Pop-A-Ball, and Pop-A-Ball II

Thief - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet

Specs

Name Thief
Developer Pacific Novelty (United States)
Year 1981
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 10086
Class Wide Release
Genre Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
External Device CTD - Plays background audio
Dipswitch Settings

Thief Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard
  • Cocktail

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

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Thief Census

There are 14,717 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).

Common - There are 45 known instances of this machine owned by Thief collectors who are active members. Of these, 37 of them are original dedicated machines. 8 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 Thief machines for sale.

Wanted - There are 6 active VAPS members currently looking for Thief.

This game ranks a 9 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 8 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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Flyers

Manuals

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

  1. 3D Model (External): Upright

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