Looper
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Description
The player controls a caterpillar that crawls along the branches of a maze-like tree eating nuts and strawberries while avoiding deadly bugs and a hungry bird. The caterpillar changes into a butterfly after everything has been eaten.
Looper was produced by Orca in 1982.
Orca released 15 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1981. Orca was based in United States.
Other machines made by Orca during the time period Looper was produced include: Congorilla, Percussor, The, River Patrol, Bounty, Changes, Funky Bee, Marine Boy, and Moguchan
Specs
| Name | Looper |
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| Developer | Orca (United States) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Type | Videogame |
| KLOV/MOG # | 8451 |
| Class | Wide Release |
| Genre | Labyrinth/Maze |
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| Conversion Class | unique |
| # Simultaneous Players | 1 |
| # Maximum Players | 2 |
| Game Play | Alternating |
| Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
| Controls |
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| Sound | Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp) |
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Game Introduction
The game is quite similar to Pac-Man.
Game Play
The caterpillar must eat all the nuts and strawberries in order to become a butterfly. Eating a strawberry temporarily makes the caterpillar invincible allowing it to kill the deadly bugs and score bonus points. The caterpillar can only run away from the hungry bird when it appears on the screen. Whenever the caterpillar leaves a turning branch, all the turning branches will rotate at once, and any bugs that are on those branches will fall off and score 400, 800, 1600 and even 3200 points. The caterpillar can also eat the beautiful flowers to score bonus points.
After you have clear the entire screen of all the nuts and strawberries, the caterpillar will change into a colorful butterfly. Afterwards, the game will begin again but with increased difficulty.
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Miscellaneous
COPY OF: Changes
VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Looper Census
There are 15,203 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,642 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,476 machines (6,980 unique titles).
Very rare - There is one known instance of this machine owned by an active member Looper collector. It is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
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Technical
CPU: Z80
SOUND: AY-8910
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