Roc'n Rope - Videogame by Konami

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Roc'n Rope

Name: Roc'n Rope
Developer: Konami

Year: 1983
Type: Videogame

Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Monitor:

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

Conversion Class: Konami Classic
Game Specific: Roc'n Rope Pinout
Settings: Roc'n Rope Dipswitch Settings

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

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [HarpoonFlash Light]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

Cabinet Styles:

Upright/Standard

Photo contributed by: Scott Leftwich

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Roc'n Rope PCB Image

Roc'n Rope Description

You play an archeologist whose mission is to return the missing feathers to the golden Phoenix. Use your harpoon-gun to fire a rope to higher platforms and then climb up. Use your flashlight to dazzle stun the attacking dinosaurs and cavemen.

Roc'n Rope was produced by Konami in 1983.

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

Other machines made by Konami during the time period Roc'n Rope was produced include Juno First, Track & Field, Mega Zone, Hyper Olympic, Gyruss, Jackler, 600, Amidar, Jungler, and Scramble.

Roc'n Rope - KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 4.05 (2 votes)

Personal Impressions Score: 4.25

     Overall 'Like': 4.50
     Fun (Social): 2.00
     Fun (Solo): 4.00
     Collector Desire: 4.50

Technical Impressions Score: 3.83

     Gameplay: 3.50
     Graphics: 4.00
     Originality: 4.50
     Sound/Music: 2.00

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

Game Introduction

Use the harpoon which shoots out a rope at an angle and attaches to higher platforms. Climb along the rope to move up the screen, climb down vines on some platforms to move down.

Avoid dinosaurs and cavemen who can also climb along rope causing it to shake and you to fall off if both moving. Use flash light to dazzle enemies for a limited time.

Reach the Phoenix at the top of the screen to advance.

Game Play

You receive bonus points for collecting the two tail feathers dropped by the Phoenix. Collect the golden egg for the ability to kill enemies by walking into them for a short period of time. Only one rope can be used on the screen at at time so if you shoot again while another enemy is climbing the current rope, they will fall and die.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Roc'n Rope 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).

Very Common - There are approximately 67 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 Roc'n Rope collectors. And of these, It is an original dedicated machine., 7 are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 22 are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 3 active VAPS members with extra Roc'n Rope circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Roc'n Rope.

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 22 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.

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