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Le Bagnard - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

Your character is a robber who runs around a mine collecting moneybags and depositing them in a wheelbarrow at the top of the screen. Climb ladders and ride elevators to avoid two angry miners. Grab pickaxes to temporarily stun your pursuers.

Le Bagnard was produced by Valadon Automation in 1982.

Valadon Automation released 6 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Valadon Automation was based in France.

Other machines made by Valadon Automation during the time period Le Bagnard was produced include: Millpac, Bagman, Pickin', Squash, and Tank Busters

Le Bagnard
Le Bagnard

Specs

Name Le Bagnard
Developer Valadon Automation (France)
Year 1982
Type Videogame
KLOV/MOG # 8398
Class Wide Release
Genre Platform
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
Game Specific Le Bagnard Pinout
Dipswitch Settings

Le Bagnard Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)

# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 2
Gameplay Alternating
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
  • Buttons: 1 [Pick Up/Grab Bar]
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

The character you control in this game is Le Bagnard, an escaped convict in a stripped suit. His goal is to steal all the bags of gold from a mine, haul the gold to the surface and deposit his loot into his wheel-barrow. Bagman must avoid two cops who have been ordered to protect the mine, prevent the gold from being stolen and stop Le Bagnard at all costs.

Game Play

The mine is three screens wide and scrolls as you move around. You must grab a bag of gold and carry it up to the surface and place it into the wheel-barrow and you must do it before the bonus points on the timer run out. Everytime you pick up a bag of gold, it will slow down Bagman to half speed allowing one of the two cops to easily catch up to him. If you are carrying a bag of gold while climbing a ladder and a cop is pursuing you, you can drop the bag of gold on the cop's head to temporarily put him out of the way. Another way to stop a cop from pursuing you is by picking up and using a pick-axe to stun him. The pick-axe can also be used to dig a big hole in a wall. You can also escape from each of the cops by getting into a minecart but the minecarts can kill you, if they run into you. Avoid moving minecarts by grabbing handles on mineshaft roof. Then let go of the handles when the cart is below you to ride the cart. To get out of the cart, you must grab another set of handles on the roof as soon as you are under them. You can also use the elevator to escape the cops and the elevator will also help you reach the surface quicker, especially if you are carrying a bag of gold. Most of the bags of gold are yellow, but there is a blue bonus bag of gold that is behind a wall that can only be penetrated by a pick-axe. Even so, the bonus blue bag of gold is twice as heavy as the standard yellow bags of gold but also worth a greater amount of points.

Le Bagnard KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

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Miscellaneous

The marquee image show above was from a game found in Germany. It is not known if the same marquee design was used in the United States and elsewhere.COPY OF: Bagman

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Le Bagnard Census

There are 14,717 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,456 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,294 machines (6,886 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 13 known instances of this machine owned by Le Bagnard collectors who are active members. Of these, 13 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Le Bagnard.

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

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

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Technical

CPU: Z80
SOUND: AY-8910

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