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Turtles
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Name: Turtles Developer: Stern Electronics Year: 1981 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Turtles Pinout Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Turtles DescriptionA turtle moves around a maze trying to save its children while being chased by numerous round bugs. Rescuing all the children by taking them home advances the level. Bombs are collected to use as weapons.Turtles was produced by Stern Electronics in 1981. 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 Turtles was produced include Lightning, Armored Car, Freefall, Split Second, Iron Maiden, Ali, Star Gazer, Berzerk, Astro Invader, and Nine Ball. Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsCollect bombs early as the interval between the flashing stars appearances becomes longer and longer as the game progresses.Game IntroductionBoxes containing question marks are located at various points around the screen. When the turtle moves over one of the boxes it either becomes one of its children, which climbs on his back to be taken to a flashing house in one of the corners, or it becomes another enemy bug. The turtle can amass bombs by walking over a flashing star in the center of the screen and can then use them like land mines, dropping only one at any given time to temporarily disable the first bug that runs into it.The game starts off with a cut-scene of a the turtle standing outside of a large building with a big 'S' on it stands for "Stern" maybe? looking up at a couple of his children on the roof. The turtle seems very disturbed and heads into the building where the game begins. After eight levels, the turtle reaches the top of the building and a cut-scene showing its children following it out of the building. Then, of course, the game starts all over again. Game PlayWhen a bug has been bombed, it stops dead and starts flashing. It is safe to walk over it while it is still flashing.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Turtles 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).Common - There are approximately 29 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 12 of these machines are owned by our active Turtles collectors. And of these, 7 are original dedicated machines, and 5 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 Turtles circuit board for sale. Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. This game ranks a 11 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
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