Mikie, High School Graffiti - Videogame by Konami

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Mikie, High School Graffiti

Name: Mikie, High School Graffiti
Developer: Konami

Year: 1984
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Labyrinth/Maze
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Konami Classic
Game Specific: Mikie, High School Graffiti Pinout
Settings: Mikie, High School Graffiti Dipswitch Settings

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

Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)
Buttons: 2 [Open DoorHeadbutt/Attack]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

Mikie, High School Graffiti PCB Image

Mikie, High School Graffiti Description

Guide Mikie around the school, classroom, and locker room to collect hearts which make up a letter from his girlfriend. Head-butt teachers and throw basketballs at them. Very nice soundtrack, but insanely difficult.

Mikie, High School Graffiti was produced by Konami in 1984.

Konami released 433 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Mikie, High School Graffiti was produced include Badlands, Circus Charlie, Comic Bakery, Hyper Olympic '84, Antarctic Adventure, Mega Zone, Roc'n Rope, Juno First, Gyruss, and Hyper Olympic.

Mikie, High School Graffiti - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.04 (4 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 2.95

     Overall 'Like': 4.00
     Fun (Social): 2.00
     Fun (Solo): 3.25
     Collector Desire: 3.00

Technical Impressions Score: 3.83

     Gameplay: 4.00
     Graphics: 3.67
     Originality: 4.33
     Sound/Music: 2.33

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

Cheats, Tricks, Bugs, and Easter Eggs

Collect all hearts while they are flashing to get a PERFECT bonus. Look out for the hidden girl in the corridor closets for bonus points as well.

Game Play

Guide Mikie around the school classrooms and hallways collecting hearts, while being chased by various staff. Once you collect all hearts you can leave the classroom and enter the rest of the school building, where you can move down the corridor avoiding the janitor to enter additional rooms. The second room is the locker room, where you must break the lockers to get the hearts, while being pursued by a janitor, a cook, and a teacher. Room three is the restaurant where you are pursued by two cooks and a teacher. Room four sees Mikie in the Dance Studio, where he must avoid dancing girls who stun him, as well as the dance instructor and his classroom teacher. The final stage has Mikie avoiding football players in the garden outside of his school, attempting to reach his girlfriend.

After each completed Step level the enemies speed up, and some even gain new abilities. On any setting but easy, this is an extremely challenging game. The graphics are pretty good and the music a knock-out plays a re-mix of 'Hard Days Night'.

Miscellaneous

The High School Graffitti version of this game has a different attack method for Mikie. Instead of a headbutt, he attacks with a shorterrange but faster yell. His attack also has no effect on the classroom teacher in this version. This ROM set is far more difficult to play than the othersPThe Japanese version has different scenery and enemies.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Mikie, High School Graffiti Census

There 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).

Common - There are approximately 48 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 Mikie, High School Graffiti collectors. And of these, It is an original dedicated machine., 6 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 23 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with extra Mikie, High School Graffiti circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Mikie, High School Graffiti.

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

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Technical

The boardset is a twolevel Konami style, similar to ITime PilotI or ITrack FieldI, except that the upper board is full sized.

Manuals

Manual 6 Pages, 2.1 MB File.

Foto-Finder® (books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 182; Color photo;
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 182; Color photo; Price guide: