Tail Gunner Description

Tail Gunner was produced by Cinematronics in 1979.

Cinematronics released 33 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1976.

Other machines made by Cinematronics during the time period Tail Gunner was produced include Sundance, Armor Attack, Rip Off, Star Castle, Boxing Bugs, Space Wars, Starhawk, Embargo, and Flipper Ball.

You are the Tailgunner of a large starship shooting at fighters closing in on the ship from the rear. The fighters can be blocked with the use of a shield. When ten fighters have passed, the game ends.

Tail Gunner - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.01 (3 votes)

Cabinet Information

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Game Play

The wave format is similar to the behavior of the pirate tanks in Rip Off, in that the first few waves have only two slow moving ships, but later waves have three which move faster and more erratically with each successive wave. The player has three Shield charges which are used to bounce the approaching enemies away from the player's ship if they get too close.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Tail Gunner Census

Uncommon - There are approximately 20 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 11 of these machines are owned by our active Tail Gunner collectors. And of these, 9 are original dedicated machines, and 2 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There are 9 active VAPS members currently looking for Tail Gunner.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

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 25 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Legacy

1. Tail Gunner (1979)
2. Tail Gunner II (1980)

Manuals

1. Tail Gunner Service Manual  69 Pages, 2.2 MB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

1. The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 70; Color photo;
2. Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 70; Color photo; Price guide:

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