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Gee Bee

Manufacturer: Namco
Year: 1978
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Ball and Paddle
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Black and White

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

Rotary: Analog

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Gee Bee Description

A fun combination ball and paddle/pinball-style black and white game with a color overlay where you rebound a ball into the blocks.

Miscellaneous

This is the first of three similar ball and paddle pinball style games licensed by Namco. The other two are Bomb Bee and Cutie Q.

VAPS Arcade Census

There are 6,978 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 4,014 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 65,113 machines (3,796 unique titles).

Very Rare - There is one known instance of this machine owned by a Gee Bee collector .It is an original dedicated machine (not another machine converted with a kit).

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

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

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. [More Information]

Technical

CPU: 8080

Trivia

This was the first of three similar games designed and developed by Toru Iwatani, the creator of Puckman or (Pac-Man in the U.S.). Originally he wanted to make pinball machines for Namco, but Namco did not want to do pinball so this series of games is the resulting compromise.

Legacy

Manuals

Owner's Manual 38 Pages, 4786 KB File.

Foto-Finder™ (books)

Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 78; Color photo; Price guide:

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Gee Bee - Title screen image

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