Top Skater - Videogame by Sega

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Top Skater

Name: Top Skater
Manufacturer: Sega
Year: 1997
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Racing
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Medium Resolution
CRT: Color
50-inch Mitsubishi projection TV

Conversion Class: Sega Model 3

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 1
Gameplay: Single
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Buttons: 1 [Selector Left]
Buttons: 1 [Selector Right]
Skateboard

Sound: Amplified Stereo with Subwoofer (three channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Top Skater Description

Top Skater was produced by Sega in 1997.

Sega released 590 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1936.

Other machines made by Sega during the time period Top Skater was produced include All Japan Pro Wrestling Featuring Virtua, Lost World: Jurassic Park, The, Columns 97, Motor Raid, House Of The Dead, The, Funky Head Boxers, Last Bronx, Gunblade NY, Dynamite Deka, and Die Hard Arcade.

A skateboarding game by Sega. Choose any of the four available skateboarders of variable skills and race on any selectable course until time runs out.

Top Skater - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.43 (3 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.27

     Overall 'Like': 5.00
     Fun (Social): 4.50
     Fun (Solo): 3.33
     Collector Desire: 3.00

Technical Impressions Score: 3.58

     Gameplay: 3.67
     Graphics: 3.33
     Originality: 3.67
     Sound/Music: 3.67

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.

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Cabinet Information

The cabinet features railings for the player to hold onto during the game to avoid falls, a large screen to view the action, and a 'Top Skater' marquee on top.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

At the character selection screen if you press the left button three times, then the right button three time, and finally continually push the left button untill the new Surfing character appears.

Game Play

Hold onto the handrails and tilt the skateboard to either side to turn the skater, and when you reach a jump, press down on the back end of the board to make the skater jump. Also be sure to grab the little icons scattered about to increase your playing time.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Top Skater Census

There are 11,774 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,265 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 155,180 machines (6,604 unique titles).

Common - There are approximately 26 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 6 of these machines are owned by our active Top Skater collectors. And of these, 5 are original dedicated machines, and one is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Top Skater.

At any given time, our active members are listing on VAPS on average of 4,400 games they are looking for, and 3,600 games for sale.

This game ranks a 5 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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

Trivia

This game features music from the punk band Pennywise!

Legacy

Top Skater
Air Trix

Manuals

Top Skater Archive Page (Segaarcade.com) (external link)

Video Clips

SEGA TOP SKATER ARCADE INTRO

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Additional References
(logged in members often see more)

The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Top Skater Flyer #1231
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Top Skater Flyer #1232

eBay Listings

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Top Skater

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