Cabal - Videogame by TAD Corporation

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Cabal

Name: Cabal
Manufacturer: TAD Corporation
Year: 1988
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: JAMMA
Game Specific: Cabal Pinout
Settings: Cabal Dipswitch Settings

Number of Simultaneous Players: 2
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Joint
Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player
Controls:

Trackball: Optical
Buttons: 2 [FireGrenade]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Cabal Description

Cabal was produced by TAD Corporation in 1988.

TAD Corporation released 5 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1988.

Other machines made by TAD Corporation during the time period Cabal was produced include JuJu Densetsu, Toki, Blood Bros., and Heated Barrel.

Viewed from behind, you stand behind a wall for shielding and must fend off attacking troops and tanks etc. using your gun and grenades. At the end of each level, all the buildings collapse and you run off up the road to the next stage.

Cabal - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 2.98 (6 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.27

     Overall 'Like': 3.67
     Fun (Social): 4.00
     Fun (Solo): 3.17
     Collector Desire: 1.83

Technical Impressions Score: 2.63

     Gameplay: 3.17
     Graphics: 3.00
     Originality: 2.00
     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 Play

Almost anything can be destroyed if you fire enough bullets or grenades at the objects. Some of the power-up weapons are formidable. Shooting unusual characters, pigs, bushes etc. will yield extra weapons.

Miscellaneous

Licensed to Fabtek for US manufacture and distribution.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Cabal Census

There are 11,505 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,119 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 152,577 machines (6,538 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 154 known instances of this machine owned by Cabal collectors who are active members. Of these, 19 of them are original dedicated machines, 22 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 113 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 8 active VAPS members with Cabal machines for sale. There are 9 active VAPS members with extra Cabal circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 3 active VAPS members currently looking for Cabal.

This game ranks a 46 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.

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

Technical

The joystick version is JAMMA not sure about trackball version and had a small module that fitted into a socket to allow the use of a joystick. Possibly the two versions are interchangeable by the use of this module. This game seems to have been produced in the early days of the JAMMA standard, and in order to get the third button, TAD used the TEST and SERVICE connectors to act as the inputs. Often there will be a wire soldered from these points to the now standard button 3 contact on the JAMMA edge connector.

Legacy

Cabal
Blood Bros.

Manuals

Service Instructions 7 Pages, 305 kB File.
Owners Manual 14 Pages, 2.8 MB File.

Video Clips

Cabal (Arcade) [TAD] Retro Danuart

Cabal (TAD Corporation, 1989) Arcade (1/3)

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Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Cabal Flyer #171
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Cabal Flyer #1507

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