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Pootan

Pootan - Japanese Title

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Name: Pootan
Developer: Unknown

Year: 1982
Type: Videogame

Class: Bootleg
Genre: Shooter
Monitor:

  • Orientation: Vertical
  • Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
  • CRT: Color
Conversion Class: Konami Classic

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

  • Joystick: 2-way (up, down)
  • Buttons: 1 [Fire]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

  • Upright/Standard
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Pootan Description

Armed with a bow, arrows and slabs of meat, mama pig must defend and/or save her piglets from the wolves ballooning up or down the cliff. Move up and down, shoot the balloons, watch the wolves plummet and splat. There are various bonus rounds.

Pootan was produced by Unknown in 1982.

Unknown released 776 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1700.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Game Introduction

The story revolves around a family of little pink piglets who have been attacked and/or captured by a monstrous pack of hungry wolves. The mama pig, who was not attacked or captured attempts to save and/or protect her chubby little family. Armed with a bow and arrows and slabs of meat, she jumps into a cage that moves up and down on a rope. Meanwhile, the wolves use helium balloons to float down from a tree limb while throwing rocks at Mama. Mrs. Pig tries to shoot their balloons with her arrows so the wolves will fall to their deaths or she hurls slabs of meat at them to make them let go. If she misses, the wolves will safely reach the ground and climb a ladder to try to bite her.

Also, if any of the wolves reach the ground, more piglets will be captured by them. So Mrs.Pig must try to kill as many wolves as possible without letting them reach the ground.

On the second level, the wolves use balloons to float to the top of a high cliff. If enough of them reach the cliff, they will push a huge boulder down onto Mama's cage. After completing this level, the piglets who had been captured are rescued and the games starts over with increased difficulty.

There is also a bonus stage where Mrs.Pig attempts to eliminate as many wolves on ascending balloons as possible by throwing as few slabs of meat as possible for a maximum bonus score.

Miscellaneous

BOOTLEG OF: Pooyan

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pootan 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).

Uncommon - There are approximately 10 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 2 of these machines are owned by our active Pootan collectors. And of these, 2 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

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 4 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]

Manuals

  1. Pinout and DIP Switch Settings  2 Pages, 409 kB File.

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