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Pooyan
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Name: Pooyan Developer: Stern Electronics Year: 1982 Type: Videogame Class: Wide Release
Game Specific: Pooyan Pinout Settings: Pooyan Dipswitch Settings Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)
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Pooyan DescriptionArmed with a bow and arrows and slabs of meat, mama pig must defend/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.Pooyan was produced by Stern Electronics in 1982. Stern Electronics released 67 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1977. Other machines made by Stern Electronics during the time period Pooyan was produced include Dark Planet, Cue, Dragonfist, Hypnox, Frenzy, Split Second, Freefall, Lightning, Armored Car, and Iron Maiden. Pooyan - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.24 (4 votes)
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. Log in to rate this game! Cabinet Style Weights and Measures
Game IntroductionThe 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 this level has been completed, the piglets who have been captured are rescued and the game starts over with increased difficulty. There is also a bonus round where Mrs. Pig will attempt to eliminate as many wolves on ascending ballons as possible by throwing as few slabs of meat as possible for a maximum bonus score. MiscellaneousBOOTLEG: PootanLICENSOR: Konami There was also a version released directly by Konami. VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pooyan CensusThere 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).Very Common - There are approximately 62 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 26 of these machines are owned by our active Pooyan collectors. And of these, 14 are original dedicated machines, 1 is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 11 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired. For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with an extra Pooyan circuit board for sale. Wanted - There are 4 active VAPS members currently looking for Pooyan. This game ranks a 21 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records. This game ranks a 12 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.
TriviaThis game is based on the story of "The Three Little Pigs".Pooyan was supposedly made with the intention of putting it in Chuck E Cheese's locations perhaps it was even commissioned by CEC's?. The name "Pooyan" means "little pigs" in Japanese. Manuals
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