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Tazz Mania
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Name: Tazz Mania Developer: Stern Electronics Year: 1982 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Tazz Mania DescriptionControl a character to clear rooms of "hoppers" using an 8-direction machine gun. Each room has a name, a unique type of monster attacking you, and the walls close in from all sides. A bonus room appears every third screen where you collect numbers for points. The Smart Bomb kills monsters and stops the walls from closing in.Tazz Mania was produced by Stern Electronics in 1982. Stern Electronics released 67 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1977. Other machines made by Stern Electronics during the time period Tazz Mania was produced include Dark Planet, Cue, Dragonfist, Hypnox, Frenzy, Split Second, Freefall, Lightning, Armored Car, and Iron Maiden. Tazz Mania - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.55 (1 vote)
Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, "Like" carries a little more weight than the other factors. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsThere was a bug in at least some versions of the game. Just before the walls finally meet and crush the player, all the mushrooms get removed from the screen. If your player is at the bottom of the screen stamping his feet i.e. trying to move downward it lets him escape the level. This was clearly an algorithmic bug in the game. It checked whether all the mushrooms were removed and they were so the player could exit.ConversionThe boardset can be converted from Uniwars, but the hack requires lots of piggy back chips, etc., to make it work.Game IntroductionYou control a Qbert-style character with a machine gun. The object of the game is to shoot all the "hoppers" (small non-moving characters) in room and then move onto the next. Each room has its own unique monster type that attacks you and the room is named accordingly. For instance, the first two are:
The Smart Bomb kills all the monsters currently on-screen and stops the walls that are slowly closing in from the left and the right. Every third screen is a bonus room containing two Smart Bombs and numbers that can be collected in ascending order to gain points. The walls in the bonus rooms close in much faster. Game PlayUse an eight-direction machine to kill the hoppers. Hold the fire button down for rapid fire, but you will be unable to move while doing so. Bullets have a limited range and also bounce off of the walls. Running into hoppers or monsters will kill you. When all the hoppers are killed the top and bottom walls disappear and you must run out to proceed onto the next room.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Tazz Mania CensusThere are 12,084 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,585 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,631 machines (6,830 unique titles).Uncommon - There are approximately 16 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 8 of these machines are owned by our active Tazz Mania collectors. And of these, 2 are original dedicated machines, and 6 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Tazz Mania. 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 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
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