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Name: Grand Champion
Manufacturer: Taito
Year: 1981
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Racing
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Vertical
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: unique

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

  • Steering: Wheel
  • Pedals: 1

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
Grand Champion


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Grand Champion Description

Grand Champion was produced by Taito in 1981.

Taito released 486 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1967.

Other machines made by Taito during the time period Grand Champion was produced include Alpine Ski, Colony 7, Fitter, Frog & Spiders, Marine Date, Tri-Attacker, Speed Race CL-5, Moon Cresta, Defender, and Western Gun, Part II.

A vertical driving game. Compete against other computer cars to win races.

Grand Champion - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.68 (1 vote)

 Personal Impressions Score: 3.60

     Overall 'Like': 4.00
     Fun (Social): 4.00
     Fun (Solo): 3.00
     Collector Desire: 3.00 
Technical Impressions Score: 3.75

     Gameplay: 4.00
     Graphics: 3.00
     Originality: 4.00
     Sound/Music: 4.00

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

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Grand Champion 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 152,566 machines (6,538 unique titles).

Common - There are 21 known instances of this machine owned by Grand Champion collectors who are active members. Of these, 17 of them are original dedicated machines, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 3 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with Grand Champion machines for sale.

Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Grand Champion.

This game ranks a 4 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 7 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]

Manuals

  1. Taito Grand Champion Pinouts  2 Pages, 193 kB File.
  2. Manual  56 Pages, 6.7 MB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

  1. Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 131; Color photo; Price guide:

Additional References
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  1. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Grand Champion Flyer #465    
  2. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Grand Champion Flyer #3428    
  3. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Grand Champion Flyer #3929    
  4. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Grand Champion Flyer #3930    
  5. The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Grand Champion Flyer #6550    

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Grand Champion

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9. Original Grand Champion Taito arcade video game manual

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