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Pop-Man Pop-Man - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Pop-Man - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Race through the maze eating pellets while avoiding the ghosts. Eating one of the power pellets makes the ghosts vulnerable to the player character.

Pop-Man was produced by Unknown in 1981.

Unknown released 776 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1700.

Other machines made by Unknown during the time period Pop-Man was produced include: Kick'N Catch Football, Galaxy Games Multi Game Video System, Lil Razzle Dazzle, Hoop Shot!, Natasha the Fortune Teller, Big Kong, Billiards The, Car Race, Donkey King, and Frog

Pop-Man - Cabinet - Machine
Cabinet
(Contributed by: wayne heinlein)

Specs

Name Pop-Man
Developer Unknown
Year 1981
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 9089
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
  • Upright/Standard

Game Play

This is a hack of Pac-Man that changes Pac-Man to Popeye's head. It also features a disappearing maze and six warp tunnels.

Pop-Man KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Miscellaneous

HACK OF: Pac-Man

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pop-Man Census

There are 14,716 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 164,294 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Rare - There are 2 known instances of this machine owned by Pop-Man collectors who are active members. Of these, It is an original dedicated machine (not another machine converted with a kit). One is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

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

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

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