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Ataxx

Description

A 1- or 2-player strategy game based on a 7x7 tiled grid. A player attempts to secure a greater number of tiles than his/her opponent by moving his/her playing pieces in a manner similar to checkers.

Ataxx was produced by Leland in 1990.

Leland released 14 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1985. Leland was based in United States.

Other machines made by Leland during the time period Ataxx was produced include: All American Football, Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road Track Pak, Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road, Strike Zone Baseball, Viper, Pig Out, World Soccer Finals, Brute Force, Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat, and Dragon's Lair II

Specs

Name	Ataxx
Developer	Leland (United States)
Year	1990
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	6960
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Puzzle
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color
Conversion Class	unique
Game Specific	Ataxx Pinout
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Competitive
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Trackball: Optical Buttons: 1 - Select
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Game Play

The object of the game is to fill the board with your colored pieces. This is done by moving your piece adjacent to your opponent's piece and turning his pieces to your color. Two types of moves can be made during the game: first, placing a piece adjacent to one of your own duplicates it or second, a piece may be moved two spaces, but it will not be duplicated. The number and arrangement of obstacles in the playfield changes between each round, so strategies must be changed in order to accomodate these barriers.

Eventually, all the empty spaces on the board are filled and the player with the most colored pieces wins. In single-player mode if the human player wins, he or she must face a more difficult computer opponent in the next round.

Ataxx KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.44 (5 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.83

Overall Like	4.00
Fun (Social)	4.25
Fun (Solo)	3.25
Collector Desire	4.00

Technical Rating: 3.60

Gameplay	4.00
Graphics	4.25
Originality	4.75
Sound/Music	3.25

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Trivia

This game looks like a bit of a redesign. IAtaxxI is slightly different from all other Leland games. The palette system is different and the background character generation system is in RAM rather than ROM.

Cabinet Information

The dedicated machine has a very large, colorful marquee that contains several red and blue blobs. The control panel contains one red and one blue trackball and a button for each player. The more common conversion kit games use a joystick for cursor movement instead of a trackball.

Miscellaneous

The Japanese version of the game was licensed to Capcom Japan.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Ataxx Census

There are 14,753 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,474 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,463 machines (6,895 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 74 known instances of this machine owned by Ataxx collectors who are active members. Of these, 17 of them are original dedicated machines. 10 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 47 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 6 active VAPS members with a Ataxx machines for sale. There is one active VAPS member with an extra Ataxx circuit board for sale.

Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Ataxx.

This game ranks a 23 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 7 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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

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Technical

The pinout of the PCB appears to be JAMMA, but the game requires an adaptor in order for it to be used in a JAMMA system.PIAtaxxI uses a 80186 IC and two Z80 ICs for sound. The 80186 is a microcontroller similar to the 8086 CPU that contains a couple of additional commands, two builtin timers and a DMA transfer unit. The multi IO daughter board contains the 80186 which controlls the 6x8bit DACs and a 10bit DAC and 2 Z80s.

Manuals

Owners Manual - Ataxx Manual — **Owners Manual**
(10 pages, 2.2 MB File)

Ataxx Manual - Ataxx Manual — **Ataxx Manual**
(29 pages, 1.39 MB File)

Ataxx Addendum - Ataxx Manual — **Ataxx Addendum**
(21 pages, 3.41 MB File)

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright

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