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Homo Sapiens Homo Sapiens - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

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Description

Use your paddle to keep the ball bouncing and destroy all the blocks to advance to the next level. Allowing the ball to get past your paddle costs you a life. Hit the bonus item for extra points and bonus screens.

Homo Sapiens was produced by Homo Sapiens and ALSFTW in 1987.

Homo Sapiens and ALSFTW released only 1 machine in our database under this trade name. Homo Sapiens and ALSFTW was based in United States.

Other machines made by Homo Sapiens and ALSFTW during the time period Homo Sapiens was produced include:

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Specs

Name Homo Sapiens
Developer Homo Sapiens and ALSFTW (United States)
Year 1987
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8133
Class Bootleg
Genre Ball and Paddle
Monitor
Conversion Class JAMMA
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls
  • Rotary: Optical
  • Buttons: 1 - Launch
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Play

This is a classic destroy-the-blocks game like Arkanoid, but it has some additional features such as two angled "rubber bands" near the bottom the screen that bounce the ball sort of like the bottom kick bumpers do on a pinball machine. Also, there are three blocks in the middle that you can not destroy, but each time you hit them they rotate through the numbers 1-9. If you get all three to have the same number, you get to go to a bonus screen. There are at least 100 unique levels in the game.

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

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Miscellaneous

BOOTLEG OF: GoinDol

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Homo Sapiens Census

There are 14,782 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,486 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,677 machines (6,909 unique titles).

Very rare - There are no known instances of this game owned by one of our active members.

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

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

Technical

CPU: Z80
SOUND CPU: Z80
SOUND: YM-2203

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