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Pleiades
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Name: Pleiades Developer: Centuri Year: 1981 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Pleiades Pinout Settings: Pleiades Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Pleiades DescriptionIn this multi-wave space shooter, enemy ships come at you in scrolling waves. Growing bird-like ships swoop down at the player's ship as more enemy ships spring forth from the mothership. During the final wave, the player must navigate around parked ships to hit landing pad right on.Pleiades was produced by Centuri in 1981. Centuri released 14 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1977. Other machines made by Centuri during the time period Pleiades was produced include Challenger, Pit, The, Route 16, Vanguard, Loco-Motion, Eagle, Killer Comet, Phoenix, and Battle Station. Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsBug When the final alien is killed on the very first wave, the game says that you be rewarded x amount of points, but this bonus is never added to your score.PCheat on the second round, shoot all but one alien. Then move the ship to the far left, wait for the alien to be in a firing line, then shoot. Its bullets will now go through you as long as you keep him in that position. You can quickly dart left and right, shooting it to death, racking up points very quickly. After about three minutes of this, the alien becomes highly annoyed and will hover right below you, and do all kind of neato moves. It is quite a sight to seeMiscellaneousLICENSOR TehkanVAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pleiades CensusThere are 12,007 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,523 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 161,736 machines (6,804 unique titles).Very Common - There are approximately 137 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 58 of these machines are owned by our active Pleiades collectors. And of these, 33 are original dedicated machines, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 24 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 Pleiades machine for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Pleiades circuit boards for sale. Wanted - There are 3 active VAPS members currently looking for Pleiades. This game ranks a 42 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 12 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalDIP switches one through four set the initial number of lives a player is given. DIP switch five sets the number of coins per credit. DIP switch eight sets either cocktail or upright mode.TriviaThe Centuri marquee incorrectly spells the game as Pleiades but the software ROMs and main screen spell the game as Pleiads.This game can be seen in the movie Nightmares starring Emilio Estevez as J.J. Cooney in the segment "Bishop of Battle". In one section, he attempts to scam some other video game players by playing Pleiades. The movie was made in 1983. Legacy
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