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Piranha Piranha - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Piranha - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

You control a red piranha with your 4-way joystick eating all the dots on the screen while avoiding four squids that are after you. The four corners each have a "energizer pellet" that, once eaten, allows you to attack and eat the squid who were chasing you. Clearing all edible objects from the screen advances you to the next screen.

Piranha was produced by GL in 1981.

GL released 2 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1981. GL was based in United States.

Other machines made by GL during the time period Piranha was produced include: Putting Challenege

Piranha - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet

Specs

Name Piranha
Developer GL (United States)
Year 1981
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9026
Class Hack/ROM Swap
Genre Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor
Conversion Class Namco Galaxian
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Cocktail
Bezel Piranha Bezel Image
Control Panel Piranha Control Panel Image
PCB Piranha PCB Image

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

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Piranha 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).

Uncommon - There are 20 known instances of this machine owned by Piranha collectors who are active members. Of these, 11 of them are original dedicated machines. 9 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 a Piranha machine for sale.

Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Piranha.

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 3 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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Technical

This is a chip conversion for a IPacManI but it was marketed as a complete game and not a conversion.

Manuals

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