M.A.C.H. 3 - Videogame by Mylstar

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M.A.C.H. 3

Name: M.A.C.H. 3
Developer: Mylstar

Year: 1983
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Gottlieb
Game Specific: M.A.C.H. 3 Pinout

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

Joystick: 8-way stick with trigger and one thumb button [FireBomb]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard
Environmental/Cockpit

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M.A.C.H. 3 Control Panel Image

M.A.C.H. 3 Description

You are the pilot of a fighter or a bomber and you fly over real video landscape blowing up things.

M.A.C.H. 3 was produced by Mylstar in 1983.

Mylstar released 18 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1983.

Other machines made by Mylstar during the time period M.A.C.H. 3 was produced include Moon Mine (never produced), Hill Climb, Q*by (never produced), Hannibal (never produced), and Rat Race (never produced).

M.A.C.H. 3 - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.06 (4 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 4.00

     Overall 'Like': 4.33
     Fun (Social): 3.00
     Fun (Solo): 4.33
     Collector Desire: 4.00

Technical Impressions Score: 2.88

     Gameplay: 4.00
     Graphics: 4.00
     Originality: 3.00
     Sound/Music: 2.50

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

Available in a sit down cockpit and stand-up version.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard
Environmental/Cockpit

Game Introduction

There are two modes of play: fighter or bomber. You fly along moving a computer generated airplane and shoot at computer drawn target boxes superimposed over real laser disk images filmed over some desert and other real objects. You have a gun and a bomb button. Target data was stripped from the right audio track on the disk so the game was prone to disk errors as soon as the player got slightly out of adjustment.

Game Play

Gamers have the choice to face off against enemy planes and ground targets as a fighter, or to fly at high altitude over arial targets as a bomber. Using an elaborate flight stick, they can fire a machine gun at the targets as well as launch missiles as they infiltrate the enemy landscape. Targets to be destroyed are surrounded by a computer generated yellow box.

The fighter sequences are generally low-flying affairs as the player must avoid the scenery while blowing up ground targets and shooting oncoming enemy planes and missiles. Taking the other choice, the bomber drops its payload on ground targets and destroys enemy fighters with its machine gun fire. Players are warned of approaching planes by a red warning signal at the top of the screen.

Since the enemy country seems to have had some kind of nuclear mishap, the game later provides radioactive clouds for players to avoid. If they can survive till the end, the game takes 15 minutes to complete with a finale airport landing.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op M.A.C.H. 3 Census

There are 12,127 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,620 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 163,035 machines (6,847 unique titles).

Very Common - There are approximately 72 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 30 of these machines are owned by our active M.A.C.H. 3 collectors. And of these, 29 are original dedicated machines, and one is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with M.A.C.H. 3 machines for sale.

Wanted - No active members have added this machine to their wish list.

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

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

Trivia

All of the footage was filmed by a special aerobatic plane with cameras in its nose and belly.

Manuals

Instruction Manual 25 Pages, 10.5 MB File.
Instruction Manual 63 Pages, 17.5 MB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 163; Color photo;
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 163; Color photo; Price guide:

Video Clips

M.A.C.H. 3 (1983 Mylstar Electronics)

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Additional References
(logged in members often see more)

The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): M.A.C.H. 3 Flyer #582
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): M.A.C.H. 3 Flyer #583
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): M.A.C.H. 3 Flyer #1980
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): M.A.C.H. 3 Flyer #2947

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