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Antarctic Adventure

Antarctic Adventure - Japanese Title

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Name: Antarctic Adventure
Developer: Konami

Year: 1984
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: Konami Classic

Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

  • Joystick: 8-way
  • Buttons: 1 [Jump]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
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Antarctic Adventure Description

A penguin must run through several levels by jumping over pits and avoiding walruses. This was a Japan-only release.

Antarctic Adventure was produced by Konami in 1984.

Konami released 433 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Antarctic Adventure was produced include Badlands, Circus Charlie, Hyper Olympic '84, Comic Bakery, Hyper Sports, Mega Zone, Roc'n Rope, Juno First, Gyruss, and Hyper Olympic.

Antarctic Adventure - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.14 (1 vote)

 Personal Impressions Score: 4.00

     Overall 'Like': 5.00
     Fun (Social): 1.00
     Fun (Solo): 5.00
     Collector Desire: 0.00 
Technical Impressions Score: 4.25

     Gameplay: 5.00
     Graphics: 5.00
     Originality: 5.00
     Sound/Music: 2.00

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 Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

This game was ported to Colecovision and NES.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Antarctic Adventure Census

There 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).

Very Rare - There are no known instances of this game owned by one of our members.

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

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.

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

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