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Jail Break
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Name: Jail Break Developer: Konami Year: 1985 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Jail Break Pinout Settings: Jail Break Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Jail Break DescriptionMove your character, a policeman, through the streets firing on escaped convicts.Jail Break was produced by Konami in 1985. Konami released 433 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Other machines made by Konami during the time period Jail Break was produced include Kicker, Gradius, Green Beret, Galactic Warriors, Finalizer - Super Transformation, Hyper Olympic '84, Antarctic Adventure, Badlands, Comic Bakery, and Circus Charlie. Jail Break - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.08 (1 vote)
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 Style Weights and Measures
Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter EggsEaster Egg: From the beginning of the game, rescue four hostages in a row. You have to do this to get the tear gas gun. Shortly after getting the fourth hostage, there will be a convict shooting down at you from a building. He is the first window shooter in the game. Gas him to get an interesting peep-show!Game IntroductionThe game intro shows that convicts have taken over the prison and many have escaped. Your job, as a policeman, is to kill the escapees. Your view is slightly up and at an angle from the side -- very similar to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or The Simpsons.The scenes move from right to left and are basic city scenes. First, there are downtown streets, then the park, then a bridge, etc. You can obtain different weapons: pistol, riot rifle, tear gas gun and maybe more. The Weapon Select button cycles through your weapons via a display at the bottom of the screen. When the desired weapon is higlighted, press the Fire button to shoot it. Hostages will randomly run across the screen. Grab them for extra weapons, but if you shoot them, you'll lose weapons. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Jail Break CensusThere 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 Common - There are approximately 80 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 35 of these machines are owned by our active Jail Break collectors. And of these, It is an original dedicated machine., 4 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 30 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with extra Jail Break circuit boards for sale. Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list. This game ranks a 25 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
TechnicalThis game is quite advanced for it's time. It offers good multi-sprite movement and decent frustrating artificial intelligence. It also has a host of semi-understandable speech phrases such as "Help me!", "Save the hostages.", "The warden has been taken hostage."TriviaThe rumors stating that the game has an ending and that there is brief female frontal nudity during the final ceremony appear to be disproven by the following update:Level five takes place inside the prison. At the end of the level, the wardon is strapped to a chair and guarded by several prisoners. If the warden is hit with even one shot, the game is over no matter how many lives are left. I do not the remember if there was a sequence after this, but perhaps the list of the makers of the game is displayed. After level five, the game begins again at a more difficult level. If all five levels are completed 20 times level 100, the difficulty is reset to that of level one. It is not known if it is possible to kill the bikers that appear if you stay in the same spot for too long. Manuals
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