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 was produced by Cinematronics in 1979.
Cinematronics released 33 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1976. Cinematronics was based in United States.
Other machines made by Cinematronics during the time period Tail Gunner was produced include: Space Wars, Starhawk, Embargo, Flipper Ball, Sundance, Armor Attack, Rip Off, Star Castle, and Boxing Bugs
Name | Tail Gunner |
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Developer | Cinematronics (United States) |
Year | 1979 |
Type | Videogame |
KLOV/MOG # | 10012 |
Class | Wide Release |
Genre | Space |
Monitor |
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Conversion Class | Cinematronics B&W Vector |
# Simultaneous Players | 1 |
# Maximum Players | 1 |
Game Play | Single |
Control Panel Layout | Single Player Ambidextrous |
Controls |
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Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
Cabinet Styles |
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Control Panel | Tail Gunner Control Panel Image |
The player views space as though looking out from the rear of a spaceship. Waves of enemies approach from the distance and they must be destroyed before they reach the player's ship.
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.
Overall Like |
4.33 |
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Fun (Social) | 0.33 |
Fun (Solo) | 2.33 |
Collector Desire | 4.33 |
Gameplay | 4.67 |
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Graphics | 4.00 |
Originality | 4.33 |
Sound/Music | 3.33 |
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This game was released in both standup and cockpitstyle cabinets.
There are 15,189 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,634 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,424 machines (6,978 unique titles).
Common - There are 21 known instances of this machine owned by Tail Gunner collectors who are active members. Of these, 18 of them are original dedicated machines. 3 of them 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 Tail Gunner machine for sale.
Wanted - Popular - There are 13 active VAPS members currently looking for Tail Gunner.
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 seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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