Cliff Hanger - Videogame by Stern Electronics

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Cliff Hanger

Name: Cliff Hanger
Developer: Stern Electronics

Year: 1983
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color
19-inch monitor

Conversion Class: unique

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

Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Buttons: 2 [Hand|Foot]

Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Cliff Hanger Description

The player uses a joystick along with hand and foot buttons to control Cliff Hanger whose mission is to save Clarissa from the evil Count Draco. Japanese laser gameplay from the movie "Lupin III" progresses through eight sections of action.

Cliff Hanger was produced by Stern Electronics in 1983.

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 Cliff Hanger was produced include Great Guns, Minefield, Goal To Go, Mazer Blazer, Lost Tomb, Orbitor 1, Dark Planet, Cue, Dragonfist, and Frenzy.

Cliff Hanger - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.58 (8 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 3.75

     Overall 'Like': 4.14
     Fun (Social): 3.29
     Fun (Solo): 3.75
     Collector Desire: 4.43

Technical Impressions Score: 3.76

     Gameplay: 3.43
     Graphics: 4.43
     Originality: 3.43
     Sound/Music: 3.29

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 sides show Cliff climbing a mountain.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Play

Action packed laser game. You must guide Cliff Hanger through Ninjas, car chases, helicopter chases, underground scuba-diving, castle climbing and a clock tower, fighting to save a lovely woman named Clarissa from the evil plans of Count Draco.

This game is very fast paced in some places, which makes it even more exciting. The game gives optional hints at the bottom of the screen regarding whether you are to make a joystick move or push a button.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Cliff Hanger Census

There are 12,062 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,567 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 162,316 machines (6,819 unique titles).

Common - There are approximately 45 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 16 of these machines are owned by our active Cliff Hanger collectors. And of these, 16 are original dedicated machines

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Cliff Hanger machine for sale.

Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Cliff Hanger.

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

This game ranks a 10 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 was Stern's first laser game; Goal To Go was their other one. To see the entire story of Lupin (the game's main character) from begining to end, check out the Japanese anime feature entitled "The Castle of Cagliostro."

Manuals

Cliff Hanger - Manual 31 Pages, 2.9 MB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 161; Color photo;
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 161; Color photo; Price guide:

Additional References
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The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Cliff Hanger Flyer #197

eBay Listings

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Cliff Hanger

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