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Pirate Ship Pirate Ship - Japanese Logo - Katakana / Kanji

Pirate Ship - Cabinet - Video Game Marquee

Description

The player is the pirate captain of his ship raiding across the sea. Collect pieces of eight and gold dubloons while avoiding collisions of various enemies and obstacles in a quest for the key to Treasure Island.

Pirate Ship was produced by Konami in 1995.

Konami released 433 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1978. Konami was based in Japan.

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Pirate Ship was produced include: Crazy Cross, Racin' Force, Lethal Enforcers II: Gunfighters, Konami Open Golf Championship, Golfing Greats 2, Beat The Champ, Crypt Killer, Dragoon Might, Hole In One, and Midnight Run

Specs

Name Pirate Ship
Developer Konami (Japan)
Year 1995
Type Arcade
KLOV/MOG # 9028
Sub-Type Redemption
Class Wide Release
Genre Platform
Monitor
Conversion Class unique
# Simultaneous Players 1
# Maximum Players 1
Game Play Single
Control Panel Layout Single Player
Controls
  • Steering: Wheel
Sound Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles
  • Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

This video redemption game has a wooden ship's wheel which can steer the ship left and right.

At the beginning of the game, the player can select one of three stages: The South Isles, Atlantis or The Sea Of The Dead. When the player has made it to the end of one of those stages, the game ends.

Tickets are won from the game depending on the score during the gameplay and the "X" number from one of the three treasure chests at the end of the stage.

Game Play

After one of three stages has been selected, the player must steer the pirate ship while sailing across the sea. The ship must pick up coins worth 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 or even 100 points to score. The player needs 2000 points or more in order to get the key for Treasure Island at the end of the stage. Pick up the coins along the sea, try to catch the coins that fly, and claim treasure chests that may have coins in them.

Try not to collide with any sharks, whales, octopuses, rocks, islands, enemy ships or any other obstacles, otherwise you will lose some of your coins and points will be deducted from your score. Also, try to avoid cannonballs fired from enemy ships and do not claim the treasure chests that have skulls or bombs in them.

When you have made it to the end of the stage, if you have under 2000 points, you won't be able to get into Treasure Island. If you have 2000 points or more, you will have the key to open up and get into Treasure Island. Before your ship goes to the main vault, however, you can choose one of three treasure chests that will either have "X1", "X2", or "X10" in it.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pirate Ship Census

There are 14,774 members of the Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,482 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,618 machines (6,906 unique titles).

Rare - There are 2 known instances of this machine owned by Pirate Ship collectors who are active members. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines.

Wanted - There are 2 active VAPS members currently looking for Pirate Ship.

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.

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