Pop Flamer - Videogame by Jaleco

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Pop Flamer

Name: Pop Flamer
Developer: Jaleco

Year: 1982
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Konami Classic
Game Specific: Pop Flamer Pinout
Settings: Pop Flamer 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: 1 [Flame]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

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Pop Flamer Description

Players control a mouse with a flame-thrower that pops balloons! Scorch the attacking monsters while popping all the balloons on a level. Sip the power drink to transform into the Super Mouse and attack the monsters.

Pop Flamer was produced by Jaleco in 1982.

Jaleco released 98 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 19.

Other machines made by Jaleco during the time period Pop Flamer was produced include Naughty Boy, Top Roller, Saturn, Exerion, Dingo, Red Zone, Mahjong - Japanese, and Royal Derby.

Cabinet Style Weights and Measures

Type
Upright/Standard

Conversion

If this game's boardset has the Stern adaptor installed, it can be swapped into just about any other vertical Konami cabinet.

Game Introduction

From the Stern sales flyer probably the same as the instruction sheet:

Operate POP FLAMER with lever to crush ballons avoiding or burning up monsters.
Be careful! If hit by electro-shock wave emmited by HARADON, POP FLAMER will be paralyzed for a while.
Flaming distance comes to be shorter gradually. Replenish fuel supply by crushing balloons.
Throw flame to exterminate frogs if blocked by them.
Get POWER DRINK to change to SUPER MOUSE and swallow monsters nearby.
POP FLAMER disappears if touched by monsters.

Miscellaneous

LICENSOR: Stern

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Pop Flamer 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 21 known instances of this machine presumably owned by our current and past members. More are likely owned by non-members. 13 of these machines are owned by our active Pop Flamer collectors. And of these, It is an original dedicated machine., 3 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 9 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Pop Flamer.

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

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often wanted, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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

Technical

This game uses a Z80 CPU. The original Jaleco boardset does not use the Konami pinout, but the Stern conversion includes an adaptor that converts it to this class.

Manuals

Conversion Kit 8 Pages, 1.4 MB File.

Additional References
(logged in members often see more)

The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Pop Flamer Flyer #757
The Arcade Flyer Archive (TAFA): Pop Flamer Flyer #5792

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