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Arkanoid
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Name: Arkanoid Manufacturer: Taito Year: 1986 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Arkanoid DescriptionArkanoid was produced by Taito in 1986. Taito released 486 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967. Other machines made by Taito during the time period Arkanoid was produced include Alcon, Battle Lane Vol. 5, Big Event Golf, Bobble Bobble, Bubble Bobble, Lady Master of Kung Fu, Typhoon Gal, Super Dead Heat, Onna Sanshirou, and Metal Soldier Isaac 2. Arkanoid - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.49 (11 votes)
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 InformationMost of these games were sold as conversion kits so the cabinets either have generic Romstar side graphics or no art at all.Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game IntroductionIn this game, move a paddle Vaus to deflect a ball towards rows of various colored bricks. Some of the bricks have special powers to increase the speed of the ball. Extra points are earned from destroying all of the bricks. This is a color variation of Atari's Breakout.Game PlayThe object of this game is to keep the ball between the Vaus and the bricks.Hacks
MiscellaneousManufacturer: Taito. Licensed to Romstar for US distribution. A bootleg of this game is called Block.VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Arkanoid CensusThere are 11,501 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,116 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 152,490 machines (6,536 unique titles).Very Common - There are 468 known instances of this machine owned by Arkanoid collectors who are active members. Of these, 95 of them are original dedicated machines, 194 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 178 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 12 active VAPS members with Arkanoid machines for sale. There are 13 active VAPS members with extra Arkanoid circuit boards for sale. Wanted - Popular - There are 19 active VAPS members currently looking for Arkanoid. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Arkanoid circuit board set. This game ranks a 87 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 32 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TechnicalThe original does not have a cocktail mode. Bootlegs use DIP switch 1 to enable cocktail mode screen flips for player 2.TriviaBootleg versions have on-screen copyrights of "Tayto" instead of "Taito". A game called Arkanoid: Doh It Again was released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1997. This release contained the original, as well as some new backgrounds an a two-player mode.LegacyManuals
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