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War Of The Bugs War Of The Bugs - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

War Of The Bugs - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

This game should be familiar in two ways; it is the basic concept of a classic bug shooting game interleaved with an all-too-familiar starfield scrolling shooter.

War Of The Bugs was produced by Food and Fun Corp./Armenia Ltd. in 1981.

Food and Fun Corp./Armenia Ltd. released only 1 machine in our database under this trade name. Food and Fun Corp./Armenia Ltd. was based in United States.

Other machines made by Food and Fun Corp./Armenia Ltd. during the time period War Of The Bugs was produced include:

Specs

Name War Of The Bugs
Developer Food and Fun Corp./Armenia Ltd. (United States)
Year 1981
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 10400
Class Wide Release
Genre Shooter
Monitor
Conversion Class Namco Galaxian
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Game Play Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 1 - Fire
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

A combination of Centipede and Galaxian.

Game Play

The game is much like playing Centipede in a Galaxian-type environment. Interestingly enough, if you move, the shot moves as well.

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Trivia

Also known as ""Monsterous Manouvers in a Mushroom Maze.""

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op War Of The Bugs Census

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).

Uncommon - There are 11 known instances of this machine owned by War Of The Bugs collectors who are active members. Of these, It is an original dedicated machine. 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 8 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 an extra War Of The Bugs circuit board for sale.

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

This game ranks a 4 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

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

Technical

The game uses a modified Galaxian PCB.

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